{"id":455268,"date":"2018-01-15T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/15\/ghalca-g8-its-immaterial-nuttal-downplays-semis-against-kotoko\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T09:26:10","slug":"ghalca-g8-its-immaterial-nuttal-downplays-semis-against-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/15\/ghalca-g8-its-immaterial-nuttal-downplays-semis-against-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"GHALCA G8: &#8216;It\u2019s immaterial&#8217; &#8211; Nuttal downplays semis against Kotoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/42188269.295.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Nuttall Mic\" title=\"Frank Nuttall Mic\" width=\"295\" height=\"252\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Frank Nuttal, Head Coach of Accra Hearts of Oak<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516008370_598_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Head Coach of Accra Hearts of Oak Frank Nutall has downplayed the importance of his team\u2019s qualification to the semi-finals of the ongoing G8 tournament and insists that is not the main focus.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians needed two late goals from super sub Richard Zuma to hand them a vital 3-2 win over improved Ebusua Dwarfs and ensure they qualified to the Knockout stage as runners-up in Group to Medeama.<\/p>\n<p>The result means that Accra Hearts of Oak have set up a date with sworn enemies Asante Kotoko who emerged winners of Group A in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish manager in his post match presser told reporters the tournament is still very much a pre season to get his team in shape ahead of the new season and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam building is an going process and we are still a work in progress. To be honest, to me it\u2019s immaterial that we got to the next stage of the competition it\u2019s not really my main focus\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey showed cool heads and perseverance in sticking to the game plan but it\u2019s only a pre season game as i said before it\u2019s only part of a rebuilding process so we shouldn\u2019t get carried away\u201d<\/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>Frank Nuttal, Head Coach of Accra Hearts of Oak Head Coach of Accra Hearts of Oak Frank Nutall has downplayed the importance of his team\u2019s qualification to the semi-finals of the ongoing G8 tournament and insists that is not the main focus. The Phobians needed two late goals from super sub Richard Zuma to hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}