{"id":1118713,"date":"2022-06-11T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/ghana-suffer-4-2-defeat-to-nigeria-in-wafu-zone-b-u-17-tournament\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T21:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:29:18","slug":"ghana-suffer-4-2-defeat-to-nigeria-in-wafu-zone-b-u-17-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/ghana-suffer-4-2-defeat-to-nigeria-in-wafu-zone-b-u-17-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Suffer 4-2 Defeat To Nigeria In WAFU Zone B U-17 Tournament |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s under-17 side, the Black Starlets were drubbed 4-2 by Nigeria in the opening match of the WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament at the Cape Coast Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Emmanuel Michael scored a spectacular free-kick in the 13th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors doubled their lead in the 44th minute, when Nigerian teenager Williams scored just before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Following the break, the Nigerians, determined to haunt Ghana, made it 3-0 when Azeez scored, effectively ending the Black Starlets&#8217; hopes of staging a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>With the mess created by goalkeeper Amadu Dembarah coach Paa Kwesi Fabin made a quick substitution and brought on Shaibu Rafiue to man the post for the Black Starlets.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana managed to pull one back in the game when Abdul Salifu eased past the Nigerian defence to get the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria scored their fourth goal from a scrapy goal when Ghana failed to clear their lines and defender Eze took advantage to score an easy goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Starlets got a consolation goal in the 88th minute when one of their men was brought down in the Nigerian box.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Collins Agyemang scored from the spot for Ghana as the game ended 4-2 in favour of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ghanasoccernet.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s under-17 side, the Black Starlets were drubbed 4-2 by Nigeria in the opening match of the WAFU Zone B U-17 tournament at the Cape Coast Stadium. Nigeria&#8217;s Emmanuel Michael scored a spectacular free-kick in the 13th minute. The visitors doubled their lead in the 44th minute, when Nigerian teenager Williams scored just before halftime. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[14,85,633,1181,108,2077,7264,440],"class_list":["post-1118713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-defeat","tag-ghana","tag-nigeria","tag-suffer","tag-tournament","tag-u17","tag-wafu","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118713","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=1118713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}