{"id":1108452,"date":"2022-06-02T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/02\/asante-kotoko-clinch-2021-22-gpl-with-three-games-to-spare\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:04:39","slug":"asante-kotoko-clinch-2021-22-gpl-with-three-games-to-spare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/02\/asante-kotoko-clinch-2021-22-gpl-with-three-games-to-spare\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko clinch 2021\/22 GPL with three games to spare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"850\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download.png\"   alt=\"Asante Kotoko\" title=\"Asante Kotoko\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asante Kotoko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kumasi Asante Kotoko have won the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League title with three games to spare after sharing the spoils with AshantiGold SC.<\/p>\n<p>The Porcupine Warriors needed just a point to clinch the title ahead of their outstanding game against the Miners.<\/p>\n<p>Despite going down by a goal in the first half, the Reds fought back to end the game 1-1 at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Obuasi-based club shot into the lead in the first through Yaw Annor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After the break, the Porcupine Warriors looked more purposeful as they grabbed the equalizer through Maxwell Agyemang.<\/p>\n<p>The draw means Kotoko have won the domestic top-flight in advance since a win for the second-placed team in the last three games will not change anything on the table.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>It is the club\u2019s first Ghana Premier League title in seven years under Prosper Narteh Ogum.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time African Champions are 10 points clear at the top of the table with 60 points after 31 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The record Ghana Premier League holders have now won 26 titles.<\/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=\"XTk2qtU3LOg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Stars technical team players must merit a place in Ghana&#039;s lineup - Fire For Fire on Adom TV\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTk2qtU3LOg?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>Asante Kotoko Kumasi Asante Kotoko have won the 2021\/22 Ghana Premier League title with three games to spare after sharing the spoils with AshantiGold SC. The Porcupine Warriors needed just a point to clinch the title ahead of their outstanding game against the Miners. Despite going down by a goal in the first half, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,5000,79,814,16,6947],"class_list":["post-1108452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asante","tag-clinch","tag-games","tag-gpl","tag-kotoko","tag-spare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108452","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=1108452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}