{"id":744644,"date":"2022-01-11T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/the-preparation-wasnt-the-best-andre-ayew-reacts-to-black-stars-defeat-to-morocco\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:28:18","slug":"the-preparation-wasnt-the-best-andre-ayew-reacts-to-black-stars-defeat-to-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/the-preparation-wasnt-the-best-andre-ayew-reacts-to-black-stars-defeat-to-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The preparation wasn\u2019t the best\u2019- Andre Ayew reacts to Black Stars defeat to Morocco"},"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>Ghana lost 1-0 to Morocco <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew is confident his side will go to the next stage of the competition <\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s plays Gabon in their next game <\/p>\n<p>Black Stars captain, Andre Dede Ayew has attributed Ghana\u2019s disappointing start to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to poor pre-tournament preparations. <\/p>\n<p>Ghana started the AFCON with a disappointing loss to the Atlas Lions of Morocco, as they were beaten 1-0 via an 83rd-minute strike from Sofiane Boufal.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco could have increased their lead to 2-0 three minutes after scoring the opener but goalkeeper Joseph Wollacott denied Amrabat with a point-blank save to maintain the 1-0 scoreline in the game. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the Black Stars camping in Doha, Qatar for about three weeks preparing for the tournament, Andre Dede Ayew has sought to suggest that they didn\u2019t start the tournament on a good note because of insufficient preparations.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We were missing] a lot of things,\u201d Ayew told GOAL. \u201cThe preparation wasn\u2019t the best, we\u2019ve been missing players, some of them only joined us here, we\u2019ve had injuries.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know it\u2019s not the best way in which to prepare ourselves, but there are no excuses,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ll go home, we\u2019ll relax, and we will make sure we beat Gabon on Friday.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will face Group C leaders Gabon who had their first win on Monday, January 10, 2022, against Comoros.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twi_news\">TWI NEWS<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana lost 1-0 to Morocco Andre Ayew is confident his side will go to the next stage of the competition Ghana&#8217;s plays Gabon in their next game Black Stars captain, Andre Dede Ayew has attributed Ghana\u2019s disappointing start to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to poor pre-tournament preparations. Ghana started the AFCON with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744644","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\/744644","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=744644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}