{"id":744010,"date":"2022-01-11T02:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/there-was-no-urgency-asamoah-gyan-fires-black-stars-after-morocco-defeat\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:48:44","slug":"there-was-no-urgency-asamoah-gyan-fires-black-stars-after-morocco-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/there-was-no-urgency-asamoah-gyan-fires-black-stars-after-morocco-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There was no urgency\u2019 \u2013 Asamoah Gyan fires Black Stars after Morocco defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-11<\/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\/27449081.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana's record goal scorer\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana's record goal scorer\" width=\"295\" height=\"139\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana&#8217;s record goal scorer<\/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\">Ghana legend, Asamoah Gyan has hit out at the Black Stars following an uninspiring performance that resulted in a defeat to Morocco on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana today locked horns with Morocco in the first Group C game of the 2021 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to threaten and score, Ghana lost 1-0 at the end of the 90 minutes courtesy of a strike from Sofiane Boufal that handed Morocco the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Asamoah Gyan said the Black Stars players played with no urgency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no urgency from the Black Stars. We wanted to catch the Moroccans on counterattack. I was expecting Issahaku to come on but it was late and it affected us. In games like this, you need to take your chances and win the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you create the chances and fail to convert them, the fans will not be happy,&#8221; Asamoah Gyan said on SuperSports.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana great who is hard hit by the setback for the Black Stars is however confident the team will win its next match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022 Source: footballghana.com 2022-01-11 Asamoah Gyan, former skipper of the Black Stars and Ghana&#8217;s record goal scorer Ghana legend, Asamoah Gyan has hit out at the Black Stars following an uninspiring performance that resulted in a defeat to Morocco on Monday evening. Ghana today locked horns with Morocco in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744010","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\/744010","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=744010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}