{"id":1257701,"date":"2022-11-24T22:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/2022-world-cup-its-a-mess\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:11:51","slug":"2022-world-cup-its-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/2022-world-cup-its-a-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 World Cup: It&#8217;s a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"449\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-24-185636-696x449.png\"   alt=\"Mohammed Salisu' challenge on Ronaldo\" title=\"Mohammed Salisu' challenge on Ronaldo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Salisu&#8217; challenge on Ronaldo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana coach Otto Addo has criticized the decision of the referee to award\u00a0Portugal a penalty in their opener in Group H on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars opened their 2022 World Cup campaign with a 3-2 defeat against the European side at the 974 Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>After a solid display from his Black Stars, it took a\u00a0penalty decision to help Portugal take the lead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester United forward, Ronaldo blasted the ball home to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Addo said the incident involving Salisu Mohammed and Cristiano Ronaldo should not have been awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game plan was okay but the referee gave a penalty which is not a penalty. Everyone saw Salisu. It\u2019s a mess,\u201d the 44-year-old said in his post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p>Addo\u00a0is now rallying his Black Stars to focus and prepare to win the next match against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had our chances even in the last minute. I can\u2019t be proud because it\u2019s zero points. We have to win our next two games,\u201d Coach Otto Addo noted.<\/p>\n<p>The game against South Korea will be played on Monday.<\/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=\"ssMMfkfXaFU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budget Presentation 2023: Gauging the atmosphere in Parliament ahead of tomorrow (23-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssMMfkfXaFU?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 Salisu&#8217; challenge on Ronaldo Ghana coach Otto Addo has criticized the decision of the referee to award\u00a0Portugal a penalty in their opener in Group H on Thursday afternoon. The Black Stars opened their 2022 World Cup campaign with a 3-2 defeat against the European side at the 974 Stadium. After a solid display from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,3624,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-1257701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cup","9":"tag-mess","10":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257701","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=1257701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}