{"id":354206,"date":"2011-03-31T19:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/john-mensah-ghana-could-have-beaten-england\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:35:53","slug":"john-mensah-ghana-could-have-beaten-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/john-mensah-ghana-could-have-beaten-england\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mensah: Ghana Could Have Beaten England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>John Mensah believes Ghana passed the opportunity of becoming the first African nation to beat England after drawing 1-1 at Wembley on Tuesday night..<\/p>\n<p>The entertaining game, which was the first meeting between both countries at senior level left an impression on the 80,102 crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan\u2019s brilliant stoppage-time finish earned the Black Stars a share of the spoils against England after Andy Carroll\u2019s first half opener for the Three Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana proved a worthy match for England, who still remain unbeaten by any African side at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were England\u2019s eighth African opponent, following in the footsteps of Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Only three of those \u2013 Cameroon, Nigeria and Egypt \u2013 have played at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Ghana\u2019s entertaining display, Mensah insists the Black Stars could have made history though relieved that Gyan\u2019s late strike prevented defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah told the Sunderland Echo: \u201cI think we definitely deserved a draw from the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we could have done more because we are better than that. We didn\u2019t show what we can really do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was still a great result though, because we were a bit down after being behind at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, second half, we came back with a good mentality and a determination to get something from the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great goal from Asa (Asamoah) \u2013 he struck it well after twisting and turning away from the defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally he gets a lot of chances for us, but he took the one when he got it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kept his focus and got the goal which was the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an important game with us playing England for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way the team played was really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe showed great team spirit and it was important to put on a good performance in front of so many fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_2045-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> John Mensah believes Ghana passed the opportunity of becoming the first African nation to beat England after drawing 1-1 at Wembley on Tuesday night.. The entertaining game, which was the first meeting between both countries at senior level left an impression on the 80,102 crowd. Asamoah Gyan\u2019s brilliant stoppage-time finish earned the Black Stars a share of the spoils against England after Andy Carroll\u2019s first half opener for the Three Lions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Mensah: Ghana Could Have Beaten England - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/john-mensah-ghana-could-have-beaten-england\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"John Mensah: Ghana Could Have Beaten England - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"John Mensah believes Ghana passed the opportunity of becoming the first African nation to beat England after drawing 1-1 at Wembley on Tuesday night.. 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