Sports News of Thursday, 6 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-06<\/p>\n Former Ghana international, Michael Osei believes that the Black Stars have been given a wake-up call following their defeat to reigning African Champions, Algeria.<\/p>\n The Black Stars’ preparations for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations suffered a jolt on Wednesday night when they got pummeled 3-0 by the North African side.<\/p>\n Adam Ounas gave the Algerians a first-half lead before an own goal from Jonathan Mensah and Islam Slimani’s cool finish ensured the African and Arab champions head to AFCON with a confidence-boosting victory.<\/p>\n Reacting to the defeat, the Bibiani Goldstars coach said, \u201cI think it was a good test match for the team, I believe it will help the coach to have a fair idea about the team. It is a wake-up call for the playing body\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe should give them the benefit of the doubts that they can\u2019t do it, they can do it. It is a difficult tournament and there are many countries who are favourite, tactically and technically they are on top. It is not going to be an easy tournament for Ghana but all the same, we are always favourite, \u201d he told Kumasi-based Wontumi FM.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe other countries have fears for Ghana whenever they are playing us. So, the teams’ defeat to Algeria is a wake-up call. It tells them to go the extra mile\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sports News of Thursday, 6 January 2022 Source: footballghana.com 2022-01-06 The Black Stars of Ghana Former Ghana international, Michael Osei believes that the Black Stars have been given a wake-up call following their defeat to reigning African Champions, Algeria. The Black Stars’ preparations for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations suffered a jolt on Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738381","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\/738381","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=738381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/82916062.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
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