{"id":1189613,"date":"2022-08-25T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/updates-on-ghanaian-players-in-the-champions-league-qualifiers-bukari-owusu-denied-group-stage\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T00:22:45","slug":"updates-on-ghanaian-players-in-the-champions-league-qualifiers-bukari-owusu-denied-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/updates-on-ghanaian-players-in-the-champions-league-qualifiers-bukari-owusu-denied-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates On Ghanaian Players In The Champions League Qualifiers: Bukari; Owusu -Denied Group Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<h3><strong style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">A dream of every player to play in one of Europe&#8217;s most exciting competitions -the UEFA Champions League (UCL), here is a comprehensive report on how Ghanaian players have performed this week.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4d9f6e3abeb24ca4a846d781bc01b3f4\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Made a quick recovery from an injury he sustained in the first leg, Osman Bukari started for Serbian giants FK Crvena zvezda as they were bottled to a draw on home soil against Israeli outfit Maccabi Haifa which also featured international <\/span>Ibrahim Mustapha who substituted him in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Drew 2-2 in the return fixture, the Ghanaian duo&#8217;s chances of making it to the group stage were denied as they lost on 5-4 aggregates, their first UCL experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/c53c36cae0894061be852218b0afe0a0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sameish to Bukari and Mustapha- <strong>Kwabena Owusu<\/strong> and <strong>Gilbert<\/strong> <strong>Koomson- <\/strong>were also denied their progress in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena Owusu who plays trade with Azerbaijan giants Qarabag FK were kicked out by Czech Republic side Viktoria Plzen on a 2-1 score-line in their return fixture following a goalless draw at home- of which he climbed off the bench to witness 9 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Koomson, on the other hand, played 16 minutes for Bodo\/Glimt as they were thrashed by GNK Dinamo Zagreb at an extra time by 4-1 as visitors on 4-2 aggregates after succeeding at home in the first leg by 1-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BerBea-nt (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\">\nBukari<br \/>\nChampions League<br \/>\nDrew<br \/>\nKwabena Owusu<br \/>\nSameish<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dream of every player to play in one of Europe&#8217;s most exciting competitions -the UEFA Champions League (UCL), here is a comprehensive report on how Ghanaian players have performed this week. Made a quick recovery from an injury he sustained in the first leg, Osman Bukari started for Serbian giants FK Crvena zvezda as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15219,774,11843,1750,516,674,2888,190,3034,150,1081],"class_list":["post-1189613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bukari","tag-champions","tag-denied","tag-ghanaian","tag-group","tag-league","tag-owusu","tag-players","tag-qualifiers","tag-stage","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189613","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=1189613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}