{"id":465537,"date":"2018-02-19T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/confederation-cup-kotoko-coach-steve-polack-confident-ahead-of-cara-brazzaville-showdown\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:22:25","slug":"confederation-cup-kotoko-coach-steve-polack-confident-ahead-of-cara-brazzaville-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/confederation-cup-kotoko-coach-steve-polack-confident-ahead-of-cara-brazzaville-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederation Cup: Kotoko coach Steve Polack confident ahead of CARA Brazzaville showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/84554326.295.jpg\" alt=\"Polack 4\" title=\"Polack 4\" width=\"295\" height=\"224\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Steve Polack is not daunted by the huge task ahead at the  Stade Alphonse Massemba-Debat<\/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\/02\/1519042945_99_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Asante Kotoko coach Steve Polack remains defiant about his side&#8217;s chances ahead of their crucial CAF Confederation Cup return leg against CARA Brazzaville on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian giants head into the reverse fixture with a solitary 1-0 advantage from the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>The record Ghanaian league title holders must dig deep and secure passage to the next stage of the qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The task appears quite humongous for the side after squandering three penalty opportunities in Kumasi last week.<\/p>\n<p>But Englishman Steve Polack is not daunted by the huge task ahead at the  Stade Alphonse Massemba-Debat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a difficult game and we&#8217;re looking forward to it&#8221; he said at the team&#8217;s departure to Brazzaville on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to go there and believe we can get a good result and qualify to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, they have to open up and try to redeem the one-goal advantage and we can also exploits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a lost cause at all. I want to urge the millions of supporters to remain resolute behind this team.<\/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>Steve Polack is not daunted by the huge task ahead at the Stade Alphonse Massemba-Debat Asante Kotoko coach Steve Polack remains defiant about his side&#8217;s chances ahead of their crucial CAF Confederation Cup return leg against CARA Brazzaville on Wednesday. The Ghanaian giants head into the reverse fixture with a solitary 1-0 advantage from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465537","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\/465537","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=465537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}