{"id":1206817,"date":"2022-09-19T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/how-asante-kotoko-were-kicked-out-of-caf-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:43:19","slug":"how-asante-kotoko-were-kicked-out-of-caf-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/how-asante-kotoko-were-kicked-out-of-caf-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"How Asante Kotoko were kicked out of CAF Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"471\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-18-193453-696x471.png\"   alt=\"Asante Kotoko against RC Kadiogo\" title=\"Asante Kotoko against RC Kadioo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asante Kotoko against RC Kadiogo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kumasi Asante Kotoko\u00a0have been eliminated from the 2022\/23 CAF Champions League by Burkinabe side, RC Kadiogo.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Premier League champions lost on penalties to their opponents following a 1-1 aggregate scoreline after Sunday\u2019s second leg at the Baba Yara Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Seydou Zerbo\u2019s side went into the game as favourites, having recorded a narrow 1-0 win against Kadiogo in the first leg in Benin last week Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>A late goal by Isaac Oppong secured the victory in Benin, and Kotoko were expected to seal qualification in front of their fans.<\/p>\n<p>However, their advantage from the first leg wasn\u2019t enough as Kotoko shockingly suffered a 1-0 defeat at home to ensure the game was tied on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RC Kadiogo were clinical, converting three of their four penalties, while Kotoko only scored one, as the Burkinabe club advanced to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat sees Kotoko embarrassingly exit the Champions League in the first preliminary round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko are yet to play in the group phase of the CAF Champions League since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Kadiogo will now face Congolese club AS Vita Club in the second round of the qualifiers.<\/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=\"01zvBmEOSOI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nnawotwi Yi on Adom TV (17-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01zvBmEOSOI?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 against RC Kadiogo Kumasi Asante Kotoko\u00a0have been eliminated from the 2022\/23 CAF Champions League by Burkinabe side, RC Kadiogo. The Ghana Premier League champions lost on penalties to their opponents following a 1-1 aggregate scoreline after Sunday\u2019s second leg at the Baba Yara Stadium. Coach Seydou Zerbo\u2019s side went into the game as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[213,710,774,4185,16,674],"class_list":["post-1206817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asante","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-kicked","tag-kotoko","tag-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206817","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=1206817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}