{"id":1261664,"date":"2022-12-05T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/qatar-2022-ayews-penalty-miss-changed-the-game\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:40:40","slug":"qatar-2022-ayews-penalty-miss-changed-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/qatar-2022-ayews-penalty-miss-changed-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022: Ayew&#8217;s penalty miss changed the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-05_073928876-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Andre Ayew's Penalty miss\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghana defender, Daniel Amartey, says the penalty miss by skipper Andre Ayew affected the their game when they lost to Uruguay in their last group game at the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana captain had an early penalty saved by Sergio Rochet before Uruguay scored twice in six minutes to hand the Black Stars an early exit on Friday at the Al Janoub Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s hopes of progressing to the next stage of the World Cup came to an end thanks to a brace from Giorgio de Arrascaeta. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s football, it happens,\u201d the Leicester City defender said in an interview with FIFA+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had scored that penalty I think we would have [beaten] them but we missed the penalty and you can see the game changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn early goal is most important and if we had scored they would have gone down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ghana will be looking for a new manager following their early exit in Qatar, as head coach Otto Addo announced he will leave his role after the defeat by the South Americans.<\/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=\"6ltFKgjDkKk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alhaji Vision Herbal Clinic - Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (12-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ltFKgjDkKk?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>Ghana defender, Daniel Amartey, says the penalty miss by skipper Andre Ayew affected the their game when they lost to Uruguay in their last group game at the 2022 World Cup. The Ghana captain had an early penalty saved by Sergio Rochet before Uruguay scored twice in six minutes to hand the Black Stars an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2911,8581,281,2914,2457],"class_list":["post-1261664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ayews","tag-changed","tag-game","tag-penalty","tag-qatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261664","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=1261664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}