{"id":16920,"date":"2018-12-18T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2018-12-18T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:32:07","slug":"u-23-afcon-qualifiers-ghana-beat-togo-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/u-23-afcon-qualifiers-ghana-beat-togo-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"U-23 AFCON Qualifiers: Ghana beat Togo 5-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ghana outclassed Togo in a 5-1 victory in the first leg of the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on Tuesday in Kumasi.<\/h3>\n<p>The first goal was scored in the 18th minute by Owusu who brilliantly put the back of the net after dribbling past two Togolese defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana had a chance to double their lead after Joel Fameyeh was brought down inside the Togo penalty area by Messan Toudji, but Fameyeh couldn&#8217;t punish Togo as his penalty kick was saved by Togolese goalie\u00a0Abdoul-Moubarak Aigba.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bpc0vxBlWw\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/super-sub-asamoah-gyan-grabs-win-kayserispor\/\">Super sub Asamoah Gyan grabs win for Kayserispor<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Super sub Asamoah Gyan grabs win for Kayserispor&#8221; &#8212; Sahara Football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/super-sub-asamoah-gyan-grabs-win-kayserispor\/embed\/#?secret=LW48laSR0m#?secret=bpc0vxBlWw\" data-secret=\"bpc0vxBlWw\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thibault Klidje scored for Togo five minutes later after connecting with\u00a0Yenoussi Guillaume&#8217;s free kick.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72bN5c0Qc8U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ghana improved very well in the second half. Osman Bukari scored in the opening minutes of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Owusu scored in the 69th minute and completed his hat trick a minute later.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu Nassam Ibrahim came in as a substitute and was lucky to find the net.<\/p>\n<p>The result gives Black Meteors a huge advantage ahead of the second leg in Lome on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Winner of this tie will\u00a0face Gabon in the next round of the qualifiers for the next year&#8217;s competition in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana outclassed Togo in a 5-1 victory in the first leg of the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on Tuesday in Kumasi. The first goal was scored in the 18th minute by Owusu who brilliantly put the back of the net after dribbling past two Togolese defenders. Ghana had a chance to double their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16929,"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":[2,8417],"tags":[8824,663,9119],"class_list":{"0":"post-16920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-football","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-black-meteors","10":"tag-togo","11":"tag-u-23-afcon-qualifiers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DutzKroWoAE0NNb-1024x683.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4oU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22788,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ghana-black-queens-thrash-togo-friendly-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":16920,"position":0},"title":"Ghana Black Queens thrash Togo in friendly game","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"September 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Black Queens of Ghana secured a 4-1 victory on Sunday when they faced Togo women team in a friendly game at the\u00a0El-Wak Sports Stadium. 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