{"id":743519,"date":"2022-01-10T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/five-morocco-key-players-to-miss-ghana-clash-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:30:58","slug":"five-morocco-key-players-to-miss-ghana-clash-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/five-morocco-key-players-to-miss-ghana-clash-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Morocco key players to miss Ghana clash due to COVID-19"},"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>Morocco face Ghana at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo  <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Youssef En-Nesyri ruled out of Morocco-Ghana game \u2013 Report<\/p>\n<p>Morocco, Ghana look to end AFCON trophy drought <\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus has hit Morocco camp a few hours to their crucial Group C opener against Ghana at the Ahma Stadium on January 10, 2022.  <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Quintet Ayoub El Kaabi, Aymen Barkok, Ryan Mmaee, Youssef En-Nesyri, and Badr Banoun are all set to miss the highly anticipated match at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo.   <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, head coach Vahid Halilhodzic has been dealt with a big blow and would have to improvise to start the tournament on a good note regardless.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bosnian is expected to line up a depleted team from the remaining 23 three-man squad against Ghana at 16:00 GMT.    <\/p>\n<p>Ghana, on the other hand, have injuries issues as right-back Andy Yiadom is a doubt for the match. However, Jordan Ayew and Mubarak Wakaso who joined the with a knock are reportedly fit and ready for the future.  <\/p>\n<p>This will be the fourth meeting between the two at the African Cup of Nations. In the previous three, both sides have one each with one match ending in a draw. <\/p>\n<p>While Ghana will be aiming for a good start and possibly go on to end their forty year AFCON trophy drought, the North Africans similarly would want to end their 42 years wait for the AFCON trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco face Ghana at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo Youssef En-Nesyri ruled out of Morocco-Ghana game \u2013 Report Morocco, Ghana look to end AFCON trophy drought Coronavirus has hit Morocco camp a few hours to their crucial Group C opener against Ghana at the Ahma Stadium on January 10, 2022. According to reports, Quintet Ayoub El Kaabi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743519","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\/743519","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=743519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}