{"id":435690,"date":"2011-06-04T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/04\/ghana-captain%e2%80%9dwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T00:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:30:43","slug":"ghana-captainwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/04\/ghana-captainwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Captain:\u201dwe Underrated Congo In The First Half\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"60\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Patrick Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-30629\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/ghana-captainwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half\/john-mensa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30629\" title=\"John Mensah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Mensa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Mensah (Pic by citifmonline.com)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana captain John Mensah has explained the team\u2019s poor first half display against Congo in the Nations Cup qualifier was as a result of underrating the Red Devils which they beat 3-1 at the Baba Yara Stadium on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars had a difficult first half before opening the scoring through Isaac Vorsah on the hour mark when the Red Devils were reduced to ten men.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of goals from in-form striker Prince Tagoe and a sensational 40-yard strike from Emmanuel Agyeman Badu kept the 2010 Fifa World Cup quarter-finalists on course for an appearance in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>In between that, the Congolese pulled one back with the help from goalie Richard Kingson\u2019s howler.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old said: \u201cTo be very honest with you we didn\u2019t expects such a performance from Congo because after beating them 3-0 at their backyard, we knew it was going to be easy for us but they gave us a good run for our money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am shocked at their output but I\u2019m excited that in the end we turn the heat on and we managed to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u201dWe are grateful to the Kumasi fans for the massive support that they\u2019ve given us and we love them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/ghana-captainwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half\/\" title=\"Ghana Captain:\u201dwe Underrated Congo In The First Half\u201d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Captain:\u201dwe Underrated Congo In The First Half\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. By Patrick Akoto John Mensah (Pic by citifmonline.com) Ghana captain John Mensah has explained the team\u2019s poor first half display against Congo in the Nations Cup qualifier was as a result of underrating the Red Devils which they beat 3-1 at the Baba Yara Stadium on Friday. The Black Stars had a difficult first half before opening the scoring through Isaac Vorsah on the hour mark when the Red Devils were reduced to ten men. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Captain:\u201dwe Underrated Congo In The First Half\u201d - 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\/06\/04\/ghana-captainwe-underrated-congo-in-the-first-half\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana Captain:\u201dwe Underrated Congo In The First Half\u201d - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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