{"id":749578,"date":"2022-01-14T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/2021-afcon-morocco-deserved-their-win-over-ghana-but\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:22:58","slug":"2021-afcon-morocco-deserved-their-win-over-ghana-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/2021-afcon-morocco-deserved-their-win-over-ghana-but\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AFCON: Morocco deserved their win over Ghana but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"444\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FIwpBxBXMAE7jUb.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asamoah Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan believes Morocco deserved their win over Ghana but remains confident the Black Stars will return to winnings ways against Gabon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars suffered defeat in their opening game against the Atlas Lion at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo on Monday in their Group C opener of the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>Sofiane Boufal\u2019s 82nd-minute strike made the difference with the North African side picking their first win.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gyan, who is a former Ghana captain,\u00a0the Black Sars allowed the Atlas Lions to dictate the game and were sluggish in pressing to win 50-50 balls.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer, however, added that he is confident the Black Stars will record their first win against Gabon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco deserved their win against Ghana. We have young players but we failed tactically,\u201d he said on\u00a0<em><strong>SuperSport TV.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Benjamin Tetteh or Boakye-Yiadom could have come on early because we were playing through the wings and we needed someone with height to challenge the air balls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not strong enough to pressure the Moroccans for the 50-50 balls. We allowed them to dictate the game but I believe we will correct our mistakes and make amends against Gabon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UvX76ljAR2o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (13-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvX76ljAR2o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan Asamoah Gyan believes Morocco deserved their win over Ghana but remains confident the Black Stars will return to winnings ways against Gabon on Friday. The Black Stars suffered defeat in their opening game against the Atlas Lion at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo on Monday in their Group C opener of the ongoing 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1694,85,1010,309],"class_list":["post-749578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-deserved","tag-ghana","tag-morocco","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749578","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=749578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}