{"id":1197820,"date":"2022-09-03T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/03\/hearts-of-oak-name-new-opponent-for-pre-season-friendly\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:00:27","slug":"hearts-of-oak-name-new-opponent-for-pre-season-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/03\/hearts-of-oak-name-new-opponent-for-pre-season-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Oak Name New Opponent For Pre-Season Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Accra Hearts of Oak have so far engaged in low profile games to prepare them for the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season and the continental campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/196fa6d6f28e48b2a3d478c8849f4f63\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Phobians sold out a better performance last two seasons where they beat off competition from arch rivals, Asante Kotoko to claim the league title and the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians per the title annexation last two seasons, it was their 21st Ghana Premier League title and their first in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>They also went all out to claim the MTN FA Cup, extending a record 11 times ahead of their rivals, Asante Kotoko.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup glory was a tough one after pulling a hard fought win over now demoted AshantiGold in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak defeated AshantiGold 8-7 by the penalty shootouts after the entire game plus extra time ended in a goalless draw against AshantiGold at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>They however lost the league title to rivals, Asante Kotoko last season but managed to claim the MTN FA Cup after coming from a goal down to beat Bechem United 2-1 in the finals at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians thus have returned to the CAF Champions League and news from their camp indicate that they will engage Ivory Coast club, Bouake fc to prepare for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians will start their campaign from the second round after they were exempted from the first round of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nFA<br \/>\nFA Cup<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nHearts of Oak<br \/>\nMTN FA Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra Hearts of Oak have so far engaged in low profile games to prepare them for the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season and the continental campaign. The Phobians sold out a better performance last two seasons where they beat off competition from arch rivals, Asante Kotoko to claim the league title and the FA Cup. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[386,216,217,11711,18886],"class_list":["post-1197820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-friendly","tag-hearts","tag-oak","tag-opponent","tag-preseason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197820","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=1197820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}