{"id":979613,"date":"2022-02-07T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/sulley-muntaris-hearts-of-oak-debut-ends-in-defeat\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:54:32","slug":"sulley-muntaris-hearts-of-oak-debut-ends-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/sulley-muntaris-hearts-of-oak-debut-ends-in-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sulley Muntari&#8217;s Hearts of Oak debut ends in defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"680\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK7bU4lWQAwRhjf.jpg\"   alt=\"Sulley Muntari\" title=\"Sulley Muntari\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sulley Muntari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ex-Ghana midfielder, Sulley Muntari, made his debut for Hearts of Oak in the matchday 16 games against Accra Great Olympics on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Phobians, however, suffered a 1-0 defeat to the Dade lads at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>A first-half strike from Razak Yussif was enough to secure all three points for the two times Ghana Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari, a former Inter Milan and AC Milan midfielder, joined the Phobians earlier in the week following days of speculation and was immediately included in the squad to face Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old was named on the bench as Samuel Boadu opted for a midfield trio of Ushau, Gladon Awako and Amamkwah Baafi.<\/p>\n<p>However, Olympics proved superior in the middle of the park and a swift counterattack saw Annor Walker\u2019s side take the lead after 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Hearts\u2019 renewed efforts in the second half, the Phobians couldn\u2019t find the equaliser as they were condemned to a second defeat in their last three league matches.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Boadu\u2019s side has now dropped to seventh on the league table, 10 points behind rivals Asante Kotoko who have two games in hand.<\/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=\"_CHkAcstzQQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nnawotwe Yi Intro on Adom TV (5-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_CHkAcstzQQ?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>Sulley Muntari Ex-Ghana midfielder, Sulley Muntari, made his debut for Hearts of Oak in the matchday 16 games against Accra Great Olympics on Sunday afternoon. The Phobians, however, suffered a 1-0 defeat to the Dade lads at the Accra Sports Stadium. A first-half strike from Razak Yussif was enough to secure all three points for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3210,14,2011,216,4429,217,3828],"class_list":["post-979613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-debut","tag-defeat","tag-ends","tag-hearts","tag-muntaris","tag-oak","tag-sulley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979613","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=979613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}