{"id":647315,"date":"2019-06-28T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 28 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citisportsonline.com<\/p>\n2019-06-28\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/1561"},"modified":"2019-06-28T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:40:45","slug":"ghanaians-expect-us-to-win-the-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/ghanaians-expect-us-to-win-the-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGhanaians expect us to win the AFCON\u201d \u2013 Kwadwo Asamoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 28 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citisportsonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-06-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561747245_458_53922398.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwadwo Asamoah Black Stars 1\" title=\"Kwadwo Asamoah Black Stars 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah, says expectations by Ghanaians for the team to win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations are justified.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Appiah\u2019s team opened their Group F campaign with a 2-2 draw against Benin, ending the game with 10 men after John Boye\u2019s red card very early in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars take on Cameroon in a must win game on Saturday amidst pressure from Ghanaian fans who have questioned the team\u2019s ability to end the country\u2019s 37 year wait for an AFCON title after in the aftermath of the Benin game.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter Milan man says he fully understands why Ghanaians expect them to win the AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in Ghana is expecting a lot from us; they strongly believe we are the team that can bring the cup home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s because we are a team that is very united. If you come to the team, you can\u2019t tell who is senior player or new player and I think with this, we can do it,\u201d Asamoah said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t start well but I still believe we are going to make it. I know they still support us because they know in most tournaments this happens to us. We don\u2019t start well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe drew the game, we didn\u2019t lose. But I believe that it [the draw] will push us and motivate us. It will not be easy against Cameroon, but I believe we can make it,\u201d Asamoah said at the team\u2019s prematch press conference.<\/p>\n<p>With uncertainty around the fitness levels of captain Andre Ayew, Asamoah is expected to start the game tomorrow but the former Juventus midfielder, when asked if he would play against Cameroon, gave an evasive response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 28 June 2019 Source: citisportsonline.com 2019-06-28 Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah, says expectations by Ghanaians for the team to win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations are justified. Kwesi Appiah\u2019s team opened their Group F campaign with a 2-2 draw against Benin, ending the game with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1853,2748,3225,2319,3150,527],"class_list":["post-647315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","tag-afcon","tag-asamoah","tag-expect","tag-ghanaians","tag-kwadwo","tag-win"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cGhanaians expect us to win the AFCON\u201d \u2013 Kwadwo Asamoah - 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\/2019\/06\/28\/ghanaians-expect-us-to-win-the-afcon-kwadwo-asamoah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u201cGhanaians expect us to win the AFCON\u201d \u2013 Kwadwo Asamoah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Friday, 28 June 2019 Source: citisportsonline.com 2019-06-28 Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah Ghana vice captain, Kwadwo Asamoah, says expectations by Ghanaians for the team to win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations are justified. 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