{"id":737529,"date":"2022-01-06T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/be-patient-with-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:25:25","slug":"be-patient-with-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/be-patient-with-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Be patient with Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\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\"> <b>Some Ghanaians not confident about Ghana&#8217;s AFCON chances<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana to commence AFCON campaign against Morocco<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena Yeboah confident of Ghana&#8217;s readiness for AFCON<\/p>\n<p>Ace Sports broadcaster Kwabena Yeboah has urged Ghanaians to be patient with the Black Stars following their 3-0 defeat to Algeria in a pre-AFCON friendly match on Wednesday, January 5, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli winger Adam Ounas put the Desert Foxes in an early lead in the 8th minute before Columbus Crew captain Jonathan Mensah conceded an own goal to double Algeria&#8217;s advantage in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, the Algerians made it 3-0 following a goalkeeping howler from substitute Lawrence Ati-Zigi.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat has left Ghana&#8217;s hope of winning the AFCON title in disarray as some fans believe the team is not ready to compete against the big teams.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an interview on Thursday, December 6, 2022, Kwabena Yeboah expressed optimism in the team and called for more time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghanaians should be a bit patient for the team; yes, I agree that there were some problems yesterday, but it&#8217;s only going to get better; the players did their best, but it was not enough, the partnership between Jonathan Mensah and Alexander Djiku will come very good,&#8221; Kwabena Yeboah told Hot 93.9 Fm.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will open their AFCON campaign on January 10, 2022, against Morocco before taking on Gabon and Comoros.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twi_news\">TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Ghanaians not confident about Ghana&#8217;s AFCON chances Ghana to commence AFCON campaign against Morocco Kwabena Yeboah confident of Ghana&#8217;s readiness for AFCON Ace Sports broadcaster Kwabena Yeboah has urged Ghanaians to be patient with the Black Stars following their 3-0 defeat to Algeria in a pre-AFCON friendly match on Wednesday, January 5, 2021. Napoli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,377,95],"class_list":["post-737529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-patient","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737529","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=737529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}