{"id":756345,"date":"2022-01-19T02:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/ghana-embarrassingly-exits-afcon-after-loss-to-comoros\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T02:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:52:01","slug":"ghana-embarrassingly-exits-afcon-after-loss-to-comoros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/ghana-embarrassingly-exits-afcon-after-loss-to-comoros\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana embarrassingly exits AFCON after loss to Comoros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/87587847.295.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Partey reacts after the final whistle went\" title=\"Thomas Partey reacts after the final whistle went\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Thomas Partey reacts after the final whistle went<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\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\">The Black Stars of Ghana have embarrassingly exited the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon after suffering a 3-2 defeat to Comoros in their last Group C game.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana secured just a point in three games and finished last in the group compromising of Morocco, Gabon and Comoros.<\/p>\n<p>The game saw the Black Stars going down to a lone goal as early as the fourth minute.<\/p>\n<p>The woes of the team worsened when captain Andre Ayew was sent off for a tackle on the Comoros goalkeeper in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The team went down by two goals in the second half but managed to pull even with 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>However, in their attempt to push more men forward for the much needed win, Comoros in a swift counter attack got the game winner to end Ghana\u2019s dream of winning a fifth Afcon title.<\/p>\n<p>Pundits argue this is the worst performance of the Black Stars in the history of the Afcon where the team played three games without a win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Partey reacts after the final whistle went The Black Stars of Ghana have embarrassingly exited the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon after suffering a 3-2 defeat to Comoros in their last Group C game. Ghana secured just a point in three games and finished last in the group compromising of Morocco, Gabon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1112,2261,2262,85,1300],"class_list":["post-756345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-comoros","tag-embarrassingly","tag-exits","tag-ghana","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756345","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=756345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}