{"id":736823,"date":"2022-01-06T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/jonathan-mensah-scores-own-goal-in-ghana-defeat-against-algeria\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:01:21","slug":"jonathan-mensah-scores-own-goal-in-ghana-defeat-against-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/jonathan-mensah-scores-own-goal-in-ghana-defeat-against-algeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Mensah scores own goal in Ghana defeat against Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/23318373.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Mensah, Ghana defender and Columbus Crew captain\" title=\"Jonathan Mensah, Ghana defender and Columbus Crew captain\" width=\"295\" height=\"190\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Jonathan Mensah, Ghana defender and Columbus Crew captain<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">It was an evening to forget for Jonathan Mensah who scored an own goal as Ghana was humbled 3-0 by reigning African champions Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based defender put the ball in his own net as he attempted to clear a low cross. The goal handed Alegria a comfortable 2-0 lead before the north Africans went on to add the third.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah was substituted immediately after the error, an indication Milovan Rajevac was disappointed in the experienced centre-back.<\/p>\n<p>He could have done better by clearing the ball. Mensah probably took his eye off the ball as he directed it into his own net.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mensah is a tough-minded player and is expected to recover from the setback and help the Black Stars achieve their target of winning the tournament in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah is heading to his seventh straight Africa Cup of Nations. He is a losing finalist twice and will be hoping this time he earns a gold medal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">A beautiful Jonathan Mensah extends the lead of the Desert Foxes of Algeria ???????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gu7417VYNd\">pic.twitter.com\/Gu7417VYNd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kwesi Live TV on YouTube ???????????????? (@Kwesi_live) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kwesi_live\/status\/1478784117378539521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Mensah, Ghana defender and Columbus Crew captain It was an evening to forget for Jonathan Mensah who scored an own goal as Ghana was humbled 3-0 by reigning African champions Algeria. The US-based defender put the ball in his own net as he attempted to clear a low cross. The goal handed Alegria a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736823","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=736823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}