{"id":1038799,"date":"2022-03-29T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/ghana-qualify-for-qatar-2022-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:07:42","slug":"ghana-qualify-for-qatar-2022-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/ghana-qualify-for-qatar-2022-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Qualify For Qatar 2022 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana have qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar after a spirited display against Nigeria on Tuesday resulted in a 1-1 draw in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana qualified on an away goal advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria hosted arch-rivals Ghana in the second-leg of the 2022 World Cup playoff on Tuesday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were held to a goalless draw in Friday\u2019s match at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi which left the return encounter delicately poised.<\/p>\n<p>With the first leg ending 0-0 in Kumasi, Ghana knew a score draw would be enough to secure their place in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the crowded Moshood Abiola Stadium, Thomas Partey opened the scoring with away goal in the 10th minute to upset the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The lead, however, lasted for 12 minutes as Nigeria equalised courtesy of a disputed penalty scored by William Troost-Ekong.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana defended well after to qualify for a fourth World Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana have qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar after a spirited display against Nigeria on Tuesday resulted in a 1-1 draw in Abuja. Ghana qualified on an away goal advantage. Nigeria hosted arch-rivals Ghana in the second-leg of the 2022 World Cup playoff on Tuesday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,85,2457,2251,784],"class_list":["post-1038799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-qatar","tag-qualify","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}