{"id":1182361,"date":"2022-08-18T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/u-20-wwc-ghana-fail-to-make-knockout-stage-for-sixth-time-in-a-row-after-netherlands-defeat\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T08:57:43","slug":"u-20-wwc-ghana-fail-to-make-knockout-stage-for-sixth-time-in-a-row-after-netherlands-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/u-20-wwc-ghana-fail-to-make-knockout-stage-for-sixth-time-in-a-row-after-netherlands-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"U-20 WWC: Ghana fail to make knockout stage for sixth time in a row after Netherlands defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"U-20 WWC: Ghana fail to make knockout stage for sixth time in a row after Netherlands defeat\" title=\"U-20 WWC: Ghana fail to make knockout stage for sixth time in a row after Netherlands defeat\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Black Princesses of Ghana endured a heavy thumping in their last group game of the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup as they crashed out.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Fokuo and his charges were hopeful of ending their campaign on a high against the Netherlands after two defeats in their opening games.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were handed their heaviest defeat in the competition on Wednesday night, losing with a 1-4 score.<\/p>\n<p>The Europeans took a first-half lead through Liz Rijsbergen, who scored after 28 minutes paid.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Boaduwaa scored Ghana\u2019s only goal of the game after the Netherlands had doubled their lead but her goal could only be a consolation as Rijsbergen scored her second in the 65th minute while Marit Auee also got on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p>The result means the Black Princesses failed to take a point from the tournament, their worst performance since 2012 when they failed to score in any of their three games.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s quest to go past the group stage for the first time was also not achieved with attention being tuned to the next edition of the U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Princesses of Ghana endured a heavy thumping in their last group game of the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup as they crashed out. Ben Fokuo and his charges were hopeful of ending their campaign on a high against the Netherlands after two defeats in their opening games. However, they were handed their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[14,1220,85,2485,4141,14017,14211,150,521,5528,20679],"class_list":["post-1182361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-defeat","tag-fail","tag-ghana","tag-knockout","tag-row","tag-sixth","tag-stage","tag-time","tag-u20","tag-wwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182361","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=1182361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}