{"id":414418,"date":"2017-09-04T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/04\/things-didnt-go-well-in-ghana-congo-draw-asamoah-gyan\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:30:26","slug":"things-didnt-go-well-in-ghana-congo-draw-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/04\/things-didnt-go-well-in-ghana-congo-draw-asamoah-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Things didn\u2019t go well in Ghana-Congo draw&#8217; &#8211; Asamoah Gyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/55629408.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah Gyan Andre Ayew 20\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan Andre Ayew 20\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana\u2019s hope of making it to Russia 2018 is in tatters after draw game with Congo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504531826_573_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has explained in simple terms that things did not go as expected in their game against Congo on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations were high ahead of the clash because Uganda posted a 1-0 win over Egypt, and a win over Congo would have revived Ghana\u2019s World Cup dream.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars fought from a goal down to manage a 1-1 drawn game before Kumasi fans, making it almost impossible to make a fourth streak World Cup appearance in Russia next year.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining what accounted for the uninspired performance, Gyan said after the game that\u201cit\u2019s difficult, honestly, it\u2019s very difficult. Things didn\u2019t go well as expected and we didn\u2019t play the way we expected tactically and mentally. I don\u2019t know what went wrong but I will say the desire wasn\u2019t there today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of those days that things did not happen. Nobody is to be blamed but it\u2019s one of those days. I don\u2019t know what went wrong but I think it\u2019s one of those days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Stars flew out of the country yesterday for the return leg against Congo in Kinshasa tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s hope of making it to Russia 2018 is in tatters after draw game with Congo &#13; Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has explained in simple terms that things did not go as expected in their game against Congo on Friday. Expectations were high ahead of the clash because Uganda posted a 1-0 win over Egypt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Things didn\u2019t go well in Ghana-Congo draw&#039; - Asamoah Gyan - 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\/2017\/09\/04\/things-didnt-go-well-in-ghana-congo-draw-asamoah-gyan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Things didn\u2019t go well in Ghana-Congo draw&#039; - Asamoah Gyan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana\u2019s hope of making it to Russia 2018 is in tatters after draw game with Congo &#013; Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has explained in simple terms that things did not go as expected in their game against Congo on Friday. 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