{"id":16606,"date":"2018-12-09T19:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16606"},"modified":"2018-12-09T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:05:31","slug":"asante-kotoko-put-three-past-black-meteors-friendly-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/asante-kotoko-put-three-past-black-meteors-friendly-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko put three past Black Meteors in friendly game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asante Kotoko thrashed the Ghana U23 team Black Meteors 3-0 on Sunday at the Accra Sports Stadium as they continue to prepare for their CAF Confederation Cup campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game started in a very bright note as Black Meteors threatened the Kotoko defence with series of attacking plays. Felix Annan denied Brite Andoh the opener with an incredible save in the 27th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Frimpong opened the scoring with a nice header after connecting with Baakoh&#8217;s cross from the corner, and the porcupines go into the half time with a goal to their name.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/asante-kotoko-handed-new-bus-ahead-caf-confederation-cup-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asante Kotoko handed new bus ahead of CAF Confederation Cup campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Opuku scored the second goal of the game after converting a pass from Emmanuel Gyamfi to give Asante Kotoko a two-goal cushion.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko scored their third and final goal after Emmanuel Gymafi was brought down in the box. Amos Frimpong stepped forward and calmly put the ball at the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko will leave\u00a0 Ghana on Tuesday for their CAF Confederation Cup first league tie against Kenyan side Kariobangi Sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko thrashed the Ghana U23 team Black Meteors 3-0 on Sunday at the Accra Sports Stadium as they continue to prepare for their CAF Confederation Cup campaign. The game started in a very bright note as Black Meteors threatened the Kotoko defence with series of attacking plays. Felix Annan denied Brite Andoh the opener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8417,859],"tags":[6875,8824,8633,7777],"class_list":{"0":"post-16606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-ghana-premier-league","9":"tag-asante-kotoko","10":"tag-black-meteors","11":"tag-caf-confederations-cup","12":"tag-ghana-football"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/koto.jpg?fit=865%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4jQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16473,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/asante-kotoko-play-inter-allies-black-meteors\/","url_meta":{"origin":16606,"position":0},"title":"Asante Kotoko to play Inter Allies and Black Meteors","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Asante Kotoko will play Inter Allies and Black Meteors in separate friendly games as the club released it's programme ahead of the\u00a0CAFCC trip. 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