{"id":1257759,"date":"2022-11-25T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/ghana-hold-portugal-in-first-half-of-the-opening-world-cup-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:30:27","slug":"ghana-hold-portugal-in-first-half-of-the-opening-world-cup-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/ghana-hold-portugal-in-first-half-of-the-opening-world-cup-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Hold Portugal in First Half of The Opening World Cup Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana have put up a splendid performance against Portugal in the opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars have held the Portuguese to a goalless draw at the 974 international stadium in Qatar for the month long tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are making their fourth appearance at the World Cup having made their first appearance in the 2006 edition in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/d8d6d0d6aae546f59c4406901af79a79\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Their subsequent appearance was in South Africa 2010 and the 2014 edition held in Brazil where they exited at the group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the starting eleven to face the Portugal national team at the 974 international stadium in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Ati Zigi, Daniel Amartey, Alidu Seidu, Alexander Djiku, Mohammed Salisu, Baba Rahman, Abdul Samed Salis, Thomas Partey, Mohammed Kudus, Andre Ayew and Inaki Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is paired in group H alongside Uruguay, Portugal and South Korea for the month long tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nGhana<br \/>\nPortugal<br \/>\nPortuguese<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars of Ghana have put up a splendid performance against Portugal in the opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Black Stars have held the Portuguese to a goalless draw at the 974 international stadium in Qatar for the month long tournament. The Black Stars are making their fourth appearance at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[262,281,85,2063,997,6993,784],"class_list":["post-1257759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-cup","tag-game","tag-ghana","tag-hold","tag-opening","tag-portugal","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257759","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=1257759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}