{"id":744783,"date":"2022-01-11T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-morocco-stun-ghana-with-late-goal\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:13:28","slug":"afcon-2021-morocco-stun-ghana-with-late-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-morocco-stun-ghana-with-late-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Morocco Stun Ghana With Late Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana started their Afcon tournament with a defeat to Morocco in the Group C opener of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>An 83rd-minute Sofiane Boufal goal gave the North African giants the maximum points at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions came into the game as huge favourites, having lost only one of their last 21 matches in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides created a few clear-cut chances in the first half of the game, but none could find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Coach of the Ghana Black Stars Milovan Rejevac handed a start to Joseph Paintsil following his impressive showing in the pre-Afcon friendly match against Algeria last Wednesday in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The Genk forward started ahead of Fatawu Issahaku on the right-wing, with Kamaldeen Sulemana attacking from the left, despite arriving late.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal star Thomas Partey and Spain-based Iddrisu Baba were handed starts in the midfield. This is the first major tournament for Baba.<\/p>\n<p>The lone striker for the Black Stars was Jordan Ayew, who performed poorly upfront.<\/p>\n<p>The late goal prompted a quick triple substitution by Rajevac as he brought on Fatawu Issahaku, Benjamin Tetteh and Daniel Kofi Kyereh.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Atlas Lions looked more likely to score again as Saiss headed wide from a free-kick before Wollacott was forced into a brilliant late save.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will play Gabon in their second game on Tuesday, 18th January, a must-win game for the Stars to increase their chances of progressing to the next stage of the competition while Morocco, on the other hand, faces debutants Comoros.<\/p>\n<p>Story By Kobby Asamoah\/ K.Boahene@Theghanareport.Com<br \/>You Might Also Like<br \/>Court adjourns Opuni trial due to \u2018system failure\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kamaldeen, Paintsil start for Black Stars against Morocco<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-350177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG-20220110-WA0058-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-350178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG-20220110-WA0057-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana started their Afcon tournament with a defeat to Morocco in the Group C opener of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. An 83rd-minute Sofiane Boufal goal gave the North African giants the maximum points at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde. The Atlas Lions came into the game as huge favourites, having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,85,1187,749,1010,1188],"class_list":["post-744783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-ghana","tag-goal","tag-late","tag-morocco","tag-stun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744783","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=744783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}