{"id":1147,"date":"2014-01-29T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2014-01-29T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:35:49","slug":"ten-man-ghana-humble-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/ten-man-ghana-humble-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-man Ghana Humble Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars of Ghana have qualified for the final of this year African Nations Championship after holding Nigeria to a 0-0 draw with ten men and beating the Super Eagles 4-1 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing one man short, Ghana did well to resist the Super Eagles for an hour\u00a0after Kwabena Adusei&#8217;s 64th minute red card at Free State Stadium Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s attack, unlike in previous games was clumsy ans lacked cohesiveness against a solid Ghanian oppositin.<\/p>\n<p>The closest Nigeria came was in added time at the end of extra-time when Imenger Barnabus had a close-range header superbly tipped over.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeriawent on to miss two of their first three penalty kicks, while the Black Stars converted each of their four to book a final date against Libya.<\/p>\n<p>In the first semi-final match, Libya also defeated Zimbabwe via penalty shoot-outs after a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Black Stars of Ghana have qualified for the final of this year African Nations Championship after holding Nigeria to a 0-0 draw with ten men and beating the Super Eagles 4-1 on penalties. Despite playing one man short, Ghana did well to resist the Super Eagles for an hour\u00a0after Kwabena Adusei&#8217;s 64th minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}