{"id":1200610,"date":"2022-09-08T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/mohammed-kudus-scores-and-assists-as-ajax-hammer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:24:22","slug":"mohammed-kudus-scores-and-assists-as-ajax-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/mohammed-kudus-scores-and-assists-as-ajax-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Kudus scores and assists as Ajax hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mk-696x696.jpg\"   alt=\"Mohammed Kudus\" title=\"Mohammed Kudus\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Kudus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana\u00a0midfielder, Mohammed Kudus, was in scintillating form for Ajax in their UEFA Champions League opener against Rangers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kudus was named in the starting line-up for the first time since April, slotting in ahead of Brian Brobbey for the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian settled in as a false 9 in Wednesday\u2019s encounter at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old set up Steven Berghuis in the 32nd minute with a beautiful piece of skill to extend Ajax\u2019s lead to two goals after Edson Alvarez headed in the opening goal of the game.<\/p>\n<p>A minute later, the attacking midfielder was on the scoresheet after surging into the box having beaten James Tavernier in a sideline tussle.<\/p>\n<p>Kudus then netted after letting fly his strike inside the 18-yard box to give Ajax a 3-0 lead going into the first half break.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was also the Ghanaian\u2019s first in the European competition.<\/p>\n<p>He was named the man of the match following his impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p>Before the game against Rangers, Kudus had just played 74 minutes of league action for Ajax in the Eredivisie, with a chunk of it coming in last weekend\u2019s win over Cambuur.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder came off the bench to score in that fixture prompting Schreuder to start him in the encounter against Rangers.<\/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=\"npOuoOppTwg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Berekum West adjudged most outstanding in internal audit during 2021 (7-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npOuoOppTwg?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>Mohammed Kudus Ghana\u00a0midfielder, Mohammed Kudus, was in scintillating form for Ajax in their UEFA Champions League opener against Rangers on Wednesday night. Kudus was named in the starting line-up for the first time since April, slotting in ahead of Brian Brobbey for the game. The Ghanaian settled in as a false 9 in Wednesday\u2019s encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6215,12586,1969,349,17,2929],"class_list":["post-1200610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ajax","tag-assists","tag-hammer","tag-kudus","tag-mohammed","tag-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200610","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=1200610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}