{"id":742072,"date":"2022-01-09T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/asante-kotoko-hammer-ashgold-sc-3-1-to-secure-vital-three-points\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:54:47","slug":"asante-kotoko-hammer-ashgold-sc-3-1-to-secure-vital-three-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/asante-kotoko-hammer-ashgold-sc-3-1-to-secure-vital-three-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko hammer Ashgold SC 3-1 to secure vital three points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  9 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-09<\/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\/35220499.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asante Kotoko beat Ashgold SC 3-1\" title=\"Asante Kotoko beat Ashgold SC 3-1\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asante Kotoko beat Ashgold SC 3-1<\/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\">In-form striker, Frank Mbella Etouga, netted a hat-trick for Asante Kotoko on Sunday afternoon to inspire the side to record a massive 3-1 win in the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Porcupine Warriors club is aiming to win the league this season and continue to fight for points on every matchday.<\/p>\n<p>Today at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, the Reds faced off with the Miners in a matchday 12 encounter of the ongoing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of a goalless draw at the end of the first half, Frank Mbella Etouga stole the show in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The strike netted a fantastic hat-trick after opening the scoring for Asante Kotoko in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>He later scored twice in the 68th and 72nd minutes respectively to secure all points for his team.<\/p>\n<p>On the matchday, Elijah Addai scored a consolation goal for Ashanti Gold SC late in the game but it was not enough to save the side from a defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the win today, Asante Kotoko have climbed to the summit of the Ghana Premier League table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Sunday, 9 January 2022 Source: footballghana.com 2022-01-09 Asante Kotoko beat Ashgold SC 3-1 In-form striker, Frank Mbella Etouga, netted a hat-trick for Asante Kotoko on Sunday afternoon to inspire the side to record a massive 3-1 win in the Ghana Premier League. The Porcupine Warriors club is aiming to win the league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742072","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\/742072","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=742072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}