{"id":1081283,"date":"2022-05-09T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/ghana-suffer-defeat-against-nigeria-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:00:27","slug":"ghana-suffer-defeat-against-nigeria-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/ghana-suffer-defeat-against-nigeria-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana suffer defeat against Nigeria in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/satellitess.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Satellites\" title=\"Black Satellites\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Satellites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A goal in each half led the Black Satellites to a defeat in their opening match of the WAFU-B U20 Championship against the Flying Eagles of Nigeria at the Stade de G\u00e9n\u00e9ral-Seyni-Kountch\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerians took the lead when Adams Olubi fired home after a defensive blunder in the Ghanaian goal area. Substitute Ahmed Abdullah who came on for Adams doubled the lead for the Nigerians in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Satellites were unable to pull a goal back or draw parity despite the several goalscoring opportunities that came their way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The closest opportunity to score came in the second half after Zubairu Ibrahim failed to convert from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The win takes the Nigerians on top of Group B with three points with the Black Satellites needing a win against Burkina Faso on Saturday, May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the post-match press conference, Ghana\u2019s coach, Abdul Karim Zito said his side struggled to adapt to the hot weather conditions in Niamey.<\/p>\n<p>But, he is confident the game will help his team prepare adequately for the next group match.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper, Gregory Obeng also stated that, the players are poised to put the defeat behind them and go all out for a win against Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"kp9FKKNp0qk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports News On Adom TV (9-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kp9FKKNp0qk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Satellites A goal in each half led the Black Satellites to a defeat in their opening match of the WAFU-B U20 Championship against the Flying Eagles of Nigeria at the Stade de G\u00e9n\u00e9ral-Seyni-Kountch\u00e9. The Nigerians took the lead when Adams Olubi fired home after a defensive blunder in the Ghanaian goal area. Substitute Ahmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[14,85,633,1180,1181],"class_list":["post-1081283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-defeat","tag-ghana","tag-nigeria","tag-opener","tag-suffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081283","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=1081283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}