{"id":1064487,"date":"2022-04-23T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T07:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/23\/we-gave-hearts-of-oak-too-much-respect-ex-ghana-striker\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T07:56:55","slug":"we-gave-hearts-of-oak-too-much-respect-ex-ghana-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/23\/we-gave-hearts-of-oak-too-much-respect-ex-ghana-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Gave Hearts of Oak Too Much Respect\u201d &#8211; Ex-Ghana Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Sporting Director of Accra Lions, Ibrahim Tanko is surprised at his side\u2019s output in their 3-0 home loss to Hearts of Oak on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/65266d439be047f58c70f07e297fa11e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League new boys could not contain the defending champions in match day 26 in the Accra derby with Daniel Afriyie Barnieh\u2019s brace and Isaac Agyenim Boateng\u2019s singular, earning three points for the Phobians. A red card to midfielder, Rashid Abubakar on the 37th minute further distracted Lions\u2019 game plan but Tanko believes his charges rather accorded too much respect to their opponent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/6270769e4ad84f75b458d9041bf0b016\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they gave Hearts of Oak a lot of respect which is not supposed to happen. \u201cI mean, this is not the first round, they played the first round and they saw how the premier league is. \u201cSo I expect them to play more, they don\u2019t have to respect any player when they are on the pitch. \u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate that we lost and I think we have to go and prepare for the next match,\u201d Ibrahim Tanko told StarTimes. \u201cI think we allowed them a lot of spaces, when you look at the first goal, it\u2019s just one pass beating all of our lines which was not good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ebf7118e6a61498b8a5f9d62db969664\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we have to work on it. We gave them a lot of spaces, I think it\u2019s part of the respect they have for the players, I don\u2019t think it should happen.\u201d Ibrahim Tanko added. Accra Lions lie 10th on the league table despite the defeat with 33 points from 26 games of the 2021\/22 league season.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAccra Lions<br \/>\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\nIbrahim Tanko<br \/>\nLions<br \/>\nRashid Abubakar<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting Director of Accra Lions, Ibrahim Tanko is surprised at his side\u2019s output in their 3-0 home loss to Hearts of Oak on Friday. The Premier League new boys could not contain the defending champions in match day 26 in the Accra derby with Daniel Afriyie Barnieh\u2019s brace and Isaac Agyenim Boateng\u2019s singular, earning three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[399,7810,216,217,1237,4573],"class_list":["post-1064487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-exghana","tag-gave","tag-hearts","tag-oak","tag-respect","tag-striker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064487","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=1064487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}