{"id":738864,"date":"2022-01-07T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/joseph-painstil-reacts-to-pre-afcon-friendly-defeat-to-algeria\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:54:47","slug":"joseph-painstil-reacts-to-pre-afcon-friendly-defeat-to-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/joseph-painstil-reacts-to-pre-afcon-friendly-defeat-to-algeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Painstil reacts to pre-AFCON friendly defeat to Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  7 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanasoccernet.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/31346846.295.jpg\" alt=\"Winger, Joseph Painstil\" title=\"Winger, Joseph Painstil\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Winger, Joseph Painstil<\/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\">Winger Joseph Painstil is delighted to play a role in Ghana&#8217;s pre-AFCON friendly against Algeria on Wednesday night despite the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The KRC Genk star was the brightest spot in Ghana&#8217;s 3-0 hammering by the African champions.<\/p>\n<p>Painstil, who has been in and out of the team for some time excelled on the flanks and could be an asset for manager Milovan Rajevac in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter after the game.<\/p>\n<p>With the fitness of forward Jordan Ayew questionable, Painstil is likely to start against Morocco on Monday in the Group C opener.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Painstil has scored five goals across all competitions for Genk this season and his absence is a big blow for the former Belgium champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars are expected to leave Qatar on Friday, January 7 to Cameroon for the tournament which begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 7 January 2022 Source: ghanasoccernet.com 2022-01-07 Winger, Joseph Painstil Winger Joseph Painstil is delighted to play a role in Ghana&#8217;s pre-AFCON friendly against Algeria on Wednesday night despite the defeat. The KRC Genk star was the brightest spot in Ghana&#8217;s 3-0 hammering by the African champions. Painstil, who has been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738864","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\/738864","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=738864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}