{"id":6874,"date":"2013-01-21T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/asamoah-gyan-admits-to-ghanas-slack-defending-in-dr-congo-draw\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:22:58","slug":"asamoah-gyan-admits-to-ghanas-slack-defending-in-dr-congo-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/21\/asamoah-gyan-admits-to-ghanas-slack-defending-in-dr-congo-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan Admits To Ghana\u2019s Slack Defending In Dr Congo Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/552f186706165_3663202.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Captain Asamoah Gyan accepts Ghana were slack in their defending in the 2-2 draw with DR Congo on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars threw away a two goal lead to share the spoils with the Leopards in the opening Group B fixture at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointing result has seen Ghana red-faced for a crucial win against Mali on Thursday to resurrect the side\u2019s title ambitions in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan however in congratulating the DRC for their strong mentality in the fight-back admits the Black Stars should have done better to clinch the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I accept it (about Ghana being careless in conceding the two goals). I\u2019d say we lost a bit of concentration and they came back and drew,\u201d he told GHANAsoccernet.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate the Congolese, they did so well, they started the game so well but our mentality was alright and we went up by two goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (DRC) were however also able to prove that they are also mentally strong and they came back, that is football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to accept it and then concentrate on the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana with one point are now third in Group B behind Mali and the DRC in first and second respectively ahead of match day 2.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Asamoah Gyan accepts Ghana were slack in their defending in the 2-2 draw with DR Congo on Sunday.The Black Stars threw away a two goal lead to share the spoils with the Leopards in the opening Group B fixture at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.The disappointing result has seen Ghana red-faced for a crucial win against Mali on Thursday to resurrect the side\u2019s title ambitions in South Africa.Gyan however in congratulating the DRC for their strong mentality in the fight-back admits the Black Stars should have done better to clinch the win.\u201cYes, I accept it (about Ghana being careless in conceding the two goals). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}