{"id":1188336,"date":"2022-08-23T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/asante-kotoko-suffer-defeat-against-al-hilal-in-pre-season-friendly\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:48:01","slug":"asante-kotoko-suffer-defeat-against-al-hilal-in-pre-season-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/asante-kotoko-suffer-defeat-against-al-hilal-in-pre-season-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko suffer defeat against Al Hilal in pre-season friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"454\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-23-215147-696x454.png\"   alt=\"Asante Kotoko v Al Hilal\" title=\"Asante Kotoko v Al Hilal\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asante Kotoko v Al Hilal <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kumasi Asante Kotoko suffered a 2-0 defeat to Sudanese side, Al Hilal in their pre-season friendly on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A goal from each half from the host condemned the Porcupines to a defeat in the keenly contested game.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko are in Sudan for a pre-season tour ahead of the 2022\/23 Ghana football season.<\/p>\n<p>New head coach of the side, Seydou Zerbo will hope to get his players in good shape before the season starts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The coach allowed his new players to make their friendly debut with Eric Zeze, Sheriff Mohammed, Nicholas Mensah, Nicholas Bonsu, Steven Mukwala Enoch Morrison, and Moise Pouaty all starting.<\/p>\n<p>The team will engage in series of friendlies before making a return to Ghana next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Porcupines Warriors will next take on Al Hilal in a return fixture before taking Simba SC and an unknown club.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko will be hoping to defend their Premier League title as they open their season with a home game against Nsoatreman FC.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds will also represent the country in the CAF\u00a0Champions League.<\/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=\"abqkpmx0qks\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reckless Deployment: GRNMA slams YEA for posting SHS graduates to CHPS Compound (23-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/abqkpmx0qks?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 v Al Hilal Kumasi Asante Kotoko suffered a 2-0 defeat to Sudanese side, Al Hilal in their pre-season friendly on Tuesday evening. A goal from each half from the host condemned the Porcupines to a defeat in the keenly contested game. Kotoko are in Sudan for a pre-season tour ahead of the 2022\/23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,14,386,21467,16,18886,1181],"class_list":["post-1188336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asante","tag-defeat","tag-friendly","tag-hilal","tag-kotoko","tag-preseason","tag-suffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188336","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=1188336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}