{"id":1203008,"date":"2022-09-12T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/12\/reports-asante-kotoko-sc-leads-ghana-in-caf-champions-league-preliminary-first-leg-with-a-win\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:08:43","slug":"reports-asante-kotoko-sc-leads-ghana-in-caf-champions-league-preliminary-first-leg-with-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/12\/reports-asante-kotoko-sc-leads-ghana-in-caf-champions-league-preliminary-first-leg-with-a-win\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS: Asante Kotoko SC Leads Ghana In CAF Champions League Preliminary First Leg With A Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Emerged champions of the Ghana Premier League last season to be eligible for the CAF Champions League, Asante Kotoko have a kick start their campaign with a positive result as guests in the first leg of the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1d8ecf36e72b477a975d29933b85c07e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lock horns with Burkinabe side RC de Kadiogo today in a neutral location in Benin which tends to be their first competitive game this season, the Porcupine Warriors were able to come out in flying colours &#8211; in an encounter they were less favourite given their match fitness to that of their opponent.<\/p>\n<p>And a poor showdown in club friendlies, where they lost thrice and drew once- but it did not have a turn on them as they won on a scoreline (0-1) courtesy of <strong>Isaac Oppong&#8217;s<\/strong> injury-time brilliant finish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/f000b3341547410a8177835bc617de58?quality=uhq&#038;resize=720\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/9dad5330d7a144c2b8533245f3d522e4?quality=uhq&#038;resize=720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Their first game of the season without the availability of their top scorer Frank Etouga Mbella, &#8211; their performance were highly praised -especially to coach Seydou Zerbo who replaced Prosper Ogum Nartey this term.<\/p>\n<p>A goal advantage ahead of the second leg fixture, Asante Kotoko SC will host RC de Kadiogo on the 18th of this month in Ghana.<\/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\">\nAsante Kotoko SC<br \/>\nBurkinabe<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhana Premier League<br \/>\nSeydou<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerged champions of the Ghana Premier League last season to be eligible for the CAF Champions League, Asante Kotoko have a kick start their campaign with a positive result as guests in the first leg of the preliminary round. Lock horns with Burkinabe side RC de Kadiogo today in a neutral location in Benin which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[213,710,774,85,16,1038,674,299,10566,5182,309],"class_list":["post-1203008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-asante","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-ghana","tag-kotoko","tag-leads","tag-league","tag-leg","tag-preliminary","tag-reports","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203008","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=1203008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}