{"id":87521,"date":"2015-02-01T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87521"},"modified":"2015-02-01T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:46:54","slug":"afcon-2015-kwesi-appiah-boye-handed-first-starts-against-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87521","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2015: Kwesi Appiah, Boye handed first starts against Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Avram Grant has handed Kwesi Appiah his first Ghana start in the lineup to face Guinea in the AFCON quarter-finals match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Op460GiQpFpwHbT2fjyhTMmKhdEcivvZ&#8221;]Appiah who made his Ghana debut in the final group match against South Africa will partner captain Asamoah Gyan in attack for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>John Boye will also start the game at the heart of defence alongside Jonathan Mensah with Baba Rahman and Harrison Afful playing at left back and right back respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Grant however maintained the the central midfield duo of Mubarak Wakaso and Afriyie Afriyie Acquah with Andre Ayew and Christian Atsu on the flanks.<\/p>\n<p>The game which will be played at the Estadio de Malabo at 4pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghana starting XI vs Guinea<\/strong>\u00a0:\u00a0Razak Brimah,\u00a0Harrison Afful,Baba Rahman,\u00a0Jonathan Mensah,\u00a0John Boye,\u00a0Afriyie Acquah,\u00a0Mubarak Wakaso,\u00a0Andre Ayew,\u00a0Christian Atsu,\u00a0Asamoah Gyan,\u00a0Kwesi Appiah<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Avram Grant has handed Kwesi Appiah his first Ghana start in the lineup to face Guinea in the AFCON quarter-finals match on Sunday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Op460GiQpFpwHbT2fjyhTMmKhdEcivvZ&#8221;]Appiah who made his Ghana debut in the final group match against South Africa will partner captain Asamoah Gyan in attack for the Black Stars. John Boye will also start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-87521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}