{"id":1240907,"date":"2022-11-01T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/switzerland-friendly-will-boost-our-chances-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:47:23","slug":"switzerland-friendly-will-boost-our-chances-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/switzerland-friendly-will-boost-our-chances-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland friendly will boost our chances in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-14_092037842.png\"   alt=\"Image Source: Twitter\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Black Stars assistant coach and renowned football scout, Didi Dramani, believes the team\u2019s chances in the upcoming 2022 World Cup will be determined after they face off with Switzerland in a friendly match.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the game will perhaps indicate if the squad is well prepared to face off difficult opponents in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, as part of preparations for the Mundial will engage with The Swiss on November 17 before opening their World Cup account against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Switzerland game will really tell what we are going to do in Qatar and I believe the team will be ready,\u201d he told Graphic Sports, as quoted by footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned a lot from the game against Brazil. And against Nicaragua we also learned how to play against a team which can sit back and soak pressure from their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very positive in what we are doing and we only have control of what we can do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The West African side will hope to get positive results after suffering a 3-0 defeat and a narrow 1-0 win against Brazil and Nicaragua respectively.<\/p>\n<p>With less than 20 days, the 22nd edition of the tournament is scheduled to kick off from November 20 to December 18.<\/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=\"vrzjjEcHgpQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If I caught the thief - Paul &amp; Silas Week 40 Episode 5\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrzjjEcHgpQ?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>Black Stars assistant coach and renowned football scout, Didi Dramani, believes the team\u2019s chances in the upcoming 2022 World Cup will be determined after they face off with Switzerland in a friendly match. According to him, the game will perhaps indicate if the squad is well prepared to face off difficult opponents in Qatar. Ghana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1411,248,386,2457,16277],"class_list":["post-1240907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boost","tag-chances","tag-friendly","tag-qatar","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240907","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=1240907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}