{"id":736580,"date":"2022-01-05T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/algeria-silence-ghana-in-pre-afcon-friendly-in-doha\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:24:36","slug":"algeria-silence-ghana-in-pre-afcon-friendly-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/algeria-silence-ghana-in-pre-afcon-friendly-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Silence Ghana in Pre-AFCON Friendly in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana were given a reality check in their preparatory exercise ahead of the 2021 AFCON.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/d03ef5ec382f4debbfaa1a5afa1d2a42\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ghana, four time African champions played Algeria in a friendly at the Education City Stadium ahead of the 2021 AFCON to held in Cameroon. Coach Milovan Rajevac paraded a side that excluded the Ayew brothers, goalkeeper Joseph Wollacott and Baba Abdul Rahman against the defending African champions. Ghana went down as early as the 8th minute when Adam Ounas dummied left back, Gideon Mensah to slot the ball behind Abdul Manaf Nurudeen in post for the Black Stars. The Algerians continued to enjoy possession afterwards, with Adam Ounas, Youssef Balaili and Yacine Brahimi creating some decent chances but failing to score as Ghana struggled to string passes together. The Algerians held on to the slim 1-0 lead into the first half break.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1d898437c3734cfbbe71fdb10ac669d1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back from recess, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku managed call Algeria goalkeeper, Rais M\u2019Bolhi to duty with a cut in strike but that was parried for a corner kick which Ghana wasted. With 52 minutes played, Joseph Paintsil maneuvered his way into the Algeria defence where he was brought but referee will point to the corner spot instead of the penalty call by Ghana. Benjamin Tetteh was set up by Abdul Fatawu Issahaku on the 61st minute but his strike was saved by Rais M\u2019Bolhi to still keep Ghana a goal down. Coach Milovan Rajevac brought on\u00a0handed Great Olympics striker, Maxwell Abbey who replaced Richmond Boakye Yiadom on the 67th minute. Ghana will be dealt a blow when Jonathan Mensah scored an own goal on the 74th minute. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7d55ed7c619547c79bc7bc9867477e76\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Left back, Gideon Mensah was completely beaten before Youcef Atal\u2019s cross was tapped in by Jonathan Mensah to lift Algeria 2-0 up. Algeria increased the tally at 3-0 when Islam Slimani tapped in Sa\u00efd Benrahma\u2019s low cross which Ghana Lawrence Ati Zigi failed to deal with on the 78th minute. The defending champions will run away with the 3-0 win ahead of the start of the 2021 AFCON which starts on January 9.<\/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\">\nAdam Ounas<br \/>\nAlgeria<br \/>\nBaba Abdul Rahman<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nMilovan Rajevac<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Stars of Ghana were given a reality check in their preparatory exercise ahead of the 2021 AFCON. Ghana, four time African champions played Algeria in a friendly at the Education City Stadium ahead of the 2021 AFCON to held in Cameroon. Coach Milovan Rajevac paraded a side that excluded the Ayew brothers, goalkeeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736580","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=736580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}