{"id":245206,"date":"2015-01-20T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/ghana-will-qualify-despite-defeat-afriyie\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:22:00","slug":"ghana-will-qualify-despite-defeat-afriyie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/20\/ghana-will-qualify-despite-defeat-afriyie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana will qualify despite defeat \u2013 Afriyie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"medsection1\" readability=\"10.060196841382\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Soccer News of Tuesday, 20 January 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Daily Guide<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a09b10989446.295.jpg\" alt=\"Amartey Ghana Senegal\" title=\"Amartey Ghana Senegal\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> The leader of Ghana\u2019s delegation is optimistic the Black Stars will still go beyond the group stages, despite losing their opening game against Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>Black Stars management committee chairman George Afriyie believes Ghana have a brighter chance in the Africa Cup of Nations, despite suffering a major setback in their first game.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time African champions succumbed to a 1-2 defeat in their opening Group C fixture against Senegal courtesy a Moussa Sow additional time strike, but the head of the team\u2019s management insists the Ghanaians can meander their way through and qualify to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we didn\u2019t play well in the second half, but why not we\u2019re in a group of four, with two more matches to go so we can qualify,\u201d Afriyie told Goal Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Stand-in captain Andre Ayew slotted in a 14th minutes penalty but Mame Biram Diouf equalised two minutes to the hour mark and Sow rub salts into Ghana\u2019s wound deep inside additional time.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana are scheduled to play Algeria on January 23, in the next group game in Mongomo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() --><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Soccer News of Tuesday, 20 January 2015 Source: Daily Guide The leader of Ghana\u2019s delegation is optimistic the Black Stars will still go beyond the group stages, despite losing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}