{"id":1122950,"date":"2022-06-15T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ghanas-world-cup-opponent-hammers-egypt-4-1\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:15:47","slug":"ghanas-world-cup-opponent-hammers-egypt-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ghanas-world-cup-opponent-hammers-egypt-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s World Cup opponent hammers Egypt 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"447\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-14_165838222-696x447.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image_2022-06-14_165838222\"\/><\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s group opponent for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, South Korea, has thrashed Egypt in a friendly match on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt were beaten 4-1 by the South Koreans.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea, captained by Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-Min, scored twice in the opening 21 minutes through Bordeaux\u2019s Hwang Ui-jo and then Kim Young-Gwon.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt pulled one back seven minutes before the break as Mustafa Mohamed of Galatasaray found the target.<\/p>\n<p>But the win was sealed in the final minutes of the game as substitute Cho Gue-Sung added a third for South Korea in the 85th minute and Kwon Chang-Hoon another in injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the game, Ghana had beaten Chile on penalties to clinch the third position in the 2022 edition of the Kirin Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will lock horns with South Korea in the final game of Group H at the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/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=\"BycuLqYGBHE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asakare Crash: one dead, several others injured in the accident on Kumasi-Accra highway (15-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BycuLqYGBHE?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>Ghana\u2019s group opponent for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, South Korea, has thrashed Egypt in a friendly match on Tuesday afternoon. Egypt were beaten 4-1 by the South Koreans. South Korea, captained by Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-Min, scored twice in the opening 21 minutes through Bordeaux\u2019s Hwang Ui-jo and then Kim Young-Gwon. Egypt pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,1246,250,14549,11711,784],"class_list":["post-1122950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-egypt","tag-ghanas","tag-hammers","tag-opponent","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122950","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=1122950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}