{"id":743140,"date":"2022-01-10T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/the-clash-of-the-two-heavyweights-why-black-stars-are-going-as-underdogs\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:38:13","slug":"the-clash-of-the-two-heavyweights-why-black-stars-are-going-as-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/the-clash-of-the-two-heavyweights-why-black-stars-are-going-as-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clash Of The Two Heavyweights; Why Black Stars Are Going As Underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is a clash of two African heavyweights in Group C of the Africa Cup of Nations as Morocco square off against Ghana at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo on Today.<\/p>\n

Morocco and Ghana have met three times previously at the Africa Cup of Nations, all in the group phase their head-to-head record is perfectly balanced with one win each and one draw. Meanwhile, these three games have only produced three goals.<\/p>\n

Morocco conceded only one goal in six games during qualifying for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, <\/p>\n

Morocco vs Ghana is a game you don\u2019t want to miss on the second day of AFCON tournament. Morocco is one of the best teams to look up in this fixture, especially when gauging the best contenders for the AFCON trophy. The North African nation boasts one victory against Ghana\u2019s Black Stars in the only previous meeting between these teams.<\/p>\n

On paper , Morocco are the favorite and so Ghana is going as an underdog in this game.<\/p>\n

Possible lineup for Ghana Black stars<\/p>\n

Nurudeen, Djiku, Painstil, Mensah, Owusu, Boakye, Mensah, Addo, Partey, Issanaku.<\/p>\n

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It is a clash of two African heavyweights in Group C of the Africa Cup of Nations as Morocco square off against Ghana at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo on Today. Morocco and Ghana have met three times previously at the Africa Cup of Nations, all in the group phase their head-to-head record is perfectly balanced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743140","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=743140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}