{"id":744433,"date":"2022-01-11T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ex-black-stars-defender-fires-milovan-rajevac-for-poor-substitutions\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:03:41","slug":"ex-black-stars-defender-fires-milovan-rajevac-for-poor-substitutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ex-black-stars-defender-fires-milovan-rajevac-for-poor-substitutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Black Stars Defender Fires Milovan Rajevac For Poor Substitutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ex-Ghana international, John Paintsil has questioned coach Milovan Rajevac\u2019s late substitution of winger, Joseph Paintsil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/d604451ef3b94689a02bf3391b2da7bd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Paintsil, who plies his trade in Belgium with Genk, was virtually the brightest spot in the Black Stars squad against Morocco in the 2021 AFCON opener at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium on Monday. The speedster, despite failing to find the back of the net, occasionally tormented the North African\u2019s goal area with his acceleration and energy. The former Ankaragu\u00e7u loanee was however replaced by Dreams FC winger, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku on the 86th minute which did little to salvage an equalizer for the four time AFCON winners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7976135717c348879ab12afd770dec18\"\/><\/p>\n<p>John Paintsil said: \u201cI was really surprised, even taking [Joseph] Paintsil out wasn\u2019t the right time to do it. \u201cBut wasn\u2019t in his shoes but watching from afar, Paintsil was doing most of the dynamics on the field. \u201cMoving from left and right, also trying to even find the net many occasions which didn\u2019t work but he was trying, he was doing well. \u201cHe[Milovan Rajevac] should have kept him [Joseph Paintsil] going and maybe other changes around that he could have done but I will say that change wasn\u2019t called for.\u201d John Paintsil told GTV Sports Plus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/d17c205c128f4eee95b0af7cfacdd61e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars now have a tall order as their next opponent, Gabon won their opener on Monday. The Panthers, whose squad has been ravaged by COVID-19, defeated debutants, Comoros 1-0 without captain and star man, Pierre Aubameyang and key midfielder, Mario Lemina. The two clash on Friday, January 14 at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium where a defeat will send Ghana crushing out of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAbdul Fatawu Issahaku<br \/>\nBelgium<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nJohn Paintsil<br \/>\nJoseph Paintsil<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Ghana international, John Paintsil has questioned coach Milovan Rajevac\u2019s late substitution of winger, Joseph Paintsil. Joseph Paintsil, who plies his trade in Belgium with Genk, was virtually the brightest spot in the Black Stars squad against Morocco in the 2021 AFCON opener at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium on Monday. The speedster, despite failing to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744433","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\/744433","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=744433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}