{"id":1125132,"date":"2022-06-17T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/we-will-beat-hearts-of-oak-on-sunday-to-stop-us-from-relegation-rtu\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T08:50:42","slug":"we-will-beat-hearts-of-oak-on-sunday-to-stop-us-from-relegation-rtu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/we-will-beat-hearts-of-oak-on-sunday-to-stop-us-from-relegation-rtu\/","title":{"rendered":"We will beat Hearts of Oak on Sunday to stop us from relegation &#8211; RTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Real Tamale United, RTU has sounded a note of caution to Accra Hearts of Oak insisting that they will win the upcoming Ghana Premier League, GPL game between the two on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride of the North will face Hearts of Oak at the Accra Sports Stadium in a game they cannot afford to lose as they seek to retain their GPL status.<\/p>\n<p>RTU needs to win this GPL Matchday 34 fixture to confirm their status for next season and, this is what they intend doing on Sunday according to the club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/d2e97f4abb9546309400a4554afe8bf7\"\/>&#8220;We will beat Hearts of Oak on Sunday because we need the points to avoid relegation&#8221;, RTU mercurial midfielder Augustine Frimpong told Accra based radio station Atinka FM.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We cannot afford to lose this game and, we are highly determined and motivated to collect the three points on Sunday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>RTU will be looking to get the result against a Hearts of Oak side that has lost their last three games and are short on confidence at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride of the North are in a race against time to finish outside the bottom three on the table as we head into the last round of matches this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>They sit just above the relegation zone and, a win on Sunday will be enough to see them escape the drop after they were promoted to the GPL at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak who lost their GPL title to rivals Asante Kotoko this season, are eyeing to finish in the top-four at the end of the campaign and, they will be difficult opponents for RTU to push over on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: KONTOMIRE (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\">\nAccra Hearts<br \/>\nGPL<br \/>\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\nRTU<br \/>\nTamale United<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Tamale United, RTU has sounded a note of caution to Accra Hearts of Oak insisting that they will win the upcoming Ghana Premier League, GPL game between the two on Sunday. The Pride of the North will face Hearts of Oak at the Accra Sports Stadium in a game they cannot afford to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1125133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,216,217,8021,6433,534,5155],"class_list":["post-1125132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-beat","tag-hearts","tag-oak","tag-relegation","tag-rtu","tag-stop","tag-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125132","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=1125132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}