{"id":449830,"date":"2017-12-24T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/24\/live-updates-kotoko-vs-hearts\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:00:33","slug":"live-updates-kotoko-vs-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/24\/live-updates-kotoko-vs-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Kotoko vs Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday, 24 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/21578587.295.jpg\" alt=\"Hearts Kotoko Real\" title=\"Hearts Kotoko Real\" width=\"295\" height=\"136\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Its Kotoko vs Hearts<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514131233_846_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Kumasi Asante Kotoko take on their arch-rivals in the second leg of the Ghana@60 anniversary match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts will be hoping to revenge their 3-1 loss to Kotoko in the FA Cup final and put smiles back on the faces of their fans.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the week, Hearts midfielder Winful Cobbina said the Phobians would go into the game without pressure and were primed to hand their opponents a shocking defeat on their own grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for Hearts-Kotoko matches, no one can predict them, but I am confident we will record another win like we did the last time because we now have new set of players and they are doing very well,\u201d Cobbina told the Graphic Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko coach, Steve Pollack is convinced his side will get one over their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Yes we lost in the first leg but we will overturn the results and put smiles on the faces of our fans,&#8221; Pollack said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though this is a preseason game, matches involving Kotoko and Hearts are of much importance to both clubs because there is a bragging right at stake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko&#8217;s line up<\/p>\n<p>Felix Annan ,Augustine Sefa, Amos Frimpong , Awal Mohammed, Awudu Nafiu, Jackson Owusu, Seth Opare, Sylla Mohammed Kwame Boahene Emmanuel Gyamfi<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaddick Adams .<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak Squad <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HEARTSXI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HEARTSXI<\/a> vs. Kotoko: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ghanaat60?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ghanaat60<\/a> Cup. <\/p>\n<p>Inusah captains the side with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CosmosDauda14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CosmosDauda14<\/a> leading our attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AHOSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AHOSC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8P0bDW2xEf\">pic.twitter.com\/8P0bDW2xEf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Accra Hearts of Oak (@HeartsOfOakGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartsOfOakGH\/status\/944933942167293952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Stay with us as we bring you live updates from the game<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>Sports News of Sunday, 24 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-24 Its Kotoko vs Hearts Kumasi Asante Kotoko take on their arch-rivals in the second leg of the Ghana@60 anniversary match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. Hearts will be hoping to revenge their 3-1 loss to Kotoko in the FA Cup final and put smiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LIVE UPDATES: Kotoko vs Hearts - 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\/12\/24\/live-updates-kotoko-vs-hearts\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"LIVE UPDATES: Kotoko vs Hearts - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Sunday, 24 December 2017 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2017-12-24 Its Kotoko vs Hearts Kumasi Asante Kotoko take on their arch-rivals in the second leg of the Ghana@60 anniversary match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. 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