{"id":1087285,"date":"2022-05-14T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/dont-judge-kotoko-striker-by-his-first-season-ex-hearts-of-oak-striker\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:01:30","slug":"dont-judge-kotoko-striker-by-his-first-season-ex-hearts-of-oak-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/dont-judge-kotoko-striker-by-his-first-season-ex-hearts-of-oak-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t Judge Kotoko Striker by His First Season\u201d &#8211; Ex-Hearts of Oak Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ex-Ghana international, Prince Tagoe has defended the number of goals scored by Kotoko striker, Franck Etouga Mbella.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/c451c27c5365430aa482274debd8bd59\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cameroonian import has scored 19 goals this season with seven of those coming from the penalty spot and 12 in open play. The 21-year-old has missed three spot kicks, broken ex-Kotoko striker Eric Bekoe\u2019s 17 goal tally and is on the verge of smashing ex-Hearts of Oak striker, Ishmael Addo\u2019s long standing 22 goal record. Mbella has however come under sharp criticism over the number of penalty kicks scored but Prince Tagoe believes he needs another season to make a bigger impact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dab2e536ca654a9998defcbc3a678b66\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he has done well but when you look at the current league we are playing, it\u2019s not that very strong like our time. \u201cI don\u2019t think the goals that he is scoring is bad. \u201cHe is a very good striker and maybe this is just the first season, we should wait and see. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to judge a player with just the first season, I think he is doing well, for that one you can\u2019t take it from him, his finishing is good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3c14e3867ae14ee28b1538f6600d183d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is a whole lot of things that needs to be worked on in the premier league. \u201cWhen those things are being worked on, we will get a very good competitive league and we will get a lot of sponsorships.\u201d Prince Tagoe told Africa-foot.com. Franck Mbella\u2019s blistering form has caught the eyes of Cameroon senior national team coach, Rigobert Song who has invited him in a provisional squad for the 2023 AFCON qualifier next month.<\/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\">\nEric Bekoe<br \/>\nFranck Etouga Mbella<br \/>\nIshmael Addo<br \/>\nKotoko<br \/>\nMbella<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Ghana international, Prince Tagoe has defended the number of goals scored by Kotoko striker, Franck Etouga Mbella. The Cameroonian import has scored 19 goals this season with seven of those coming from the penalty spot and 12 in open play. The 21-year-old has missed three spot kicks, broken ex-Kotoko striker Eric Bekoe\u2019s 17 goal tally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[342,10737,2224,16,217,611,4573],"class_list":["post-1087285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-dont","tag-exhearts","tag-judge","tag-kotoko","tag-oak","tag-season","tag-striker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087285","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=1087285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}