{"id":744730,"date":"2022-01-11T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ex-ghana-goalkeeper-slams-poor-thomas-partey\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:29:38","slug":"ex-ghana-goalkeeper-slams-poor-thomas-partey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/ex-ghana-goalkeeper-slams-poor-thomas-partey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ghana Goalkeeper Slams Poor Thomas Partey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Ex-Ghana goalkeeper, Abukari Damba has expressed dissatisfaction at Thomas Partey\u2019s performance in the 2021 AFCON opener against Morocco.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f25b5539d86341d9a18782c6f9e5a81a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars, four time African champions succumbed to Soufiane Boufal\u2019s late second half goal at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in the opening Group C game on Monday. It was a performance football pundits, fans and Ghanaians at large were not highly impressed with as the North Africans were statistically superior to Ghana. Damba, who appeared as a pundit on GTV Sports Plus, was left disappointed with the Arsenal midfielder\u2019s output.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/11a3eaa82bff41f5880377cfd8e84b21\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of [Thomas] Partey and the kind of respect that Partey commands, I personally wanted to see something more from Partey,\u201d Abukari Damba told GTV Sports Plus. \u201cI wanted Partey to come receive the ball and initiate the moves. \u201cBecause you have everything but I did not see any of that. \u201cStringing two, three, four passes, meaningful passes, there was none.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1f01de0962014a0d9e16ab9822ccb383\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe writer[referring to host, Kwabena Yeboah], we have a big challenge at hand and we need to wake up to the reality and it is the responsibility of the players to do this.\u201dAbukari Damba added. Ghana on Friday must win their second game against Gabon who knicked a goal past debutants, Comoros in the second group c game on Monday.<\/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\">\nAbukari Damba<br \/>\nArsenal<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nPartey<br \/>\nThomas Partey<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Ghana goalkeeper, Abukari Damba has expressed dissatisfaction at Thomas Partey\u2019s performance in the 2021 AFCON opener against Morocco. The Black Stars, four time African champions succumbed to Soufiane Boufal\u2019s late second half goal at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in the opening Group C game on Monday. It was a performance football pundits, fans and Ghanaians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744730","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\/744730","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=744730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}