{"id":1107379,"date":"2022-06-02T05:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/02\/impressive-black-stars-beat-madagascar-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:51:31","slug":"impressive-black-stars-beat-madagascar-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/02\/impressive-black-stars-beat-madagascar-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Black Stars beat Madagascar in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-01-223755-696x454.png\"   alt=\"Black Stars celebrate\" title=\"Black Stars celebrate\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars celebrate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana put up an impressive performance as they defeated Madagascar with a 3-0 win in the opening match of the qualifiers to the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The West African giants\u00a0hosted the Group E opponent at the Cape Coast Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars dominated play and pushed to open the scoring in the first five minutes of the action.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the attack was not sharp enough as the visitors defended with their all to keep the score level before the break.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>In the first 10 minutes, the pressure of the Black Stars paid off when Mohammed Kudus finished off a delightful team move to open the scoring for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Three minutes later, a good chance fell to AS Roma star, Felix Afena-Gyan who poked home from close range to double the lead for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>In the final minutes of the game, Otto Addo scored full marks when one of his substitutes, Osman Bukari rounded off the Madagascar goalkeeper before scoring to seal a deserved 3-0 win for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana after today\u2019s win will prepare to travel to Angola where the team will face the Central African Republic [CAR] on June 5.<\/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=\"OM_jBiqS41M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bole Bamboi MP laments insecurity in the area \u2013 Adom TV News (1-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OM_jBiqS41M?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 Stars celebrate The Black Stars of Ghana put up an impressive performance as they defeated Madagascar with a 3-0 win in the opening match of the qualifiers to the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).\u00a0 The West African giants\u00a0hosted the Group E opponent at the Cape Coast Stadium. The Black Stars dominated play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,94,2844,8651,1180,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-1107379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-beat","9":"tag-black","10":"tag-impressive","11":"tag-madagascar","12":"tag-opener","13":"tag-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107379","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=1107379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}