{"id":17891,"date":"2019-02-03T18:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2019-02-03T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:23:50","slug":"asante-kotoko-suffer-defeat-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/asante-kotoko-suffer-defeat-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Asante Kotoko suffer defeat in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Asante Kotoko experienced first defeat in their African Campaign on Sunday evening when they lost their game against Al Hilal in Ombdurman, Sudan.<\/h3>\n<p>The porcupines had a night to forget as they fell short in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal scored in the 4oth minute through\u00a0Waleed Bakhiek Hamid who connected with a headed pass from\u00a0Nasr El Din Shigel to put his team in front.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko almost equalized when\u00a0Abdul Fatawu Safiu&#8217;s\u00a0shot hit the bar in the first few minutes of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Kotoko couldn&#8217;t break the Al Hilal defence despite their ball possession in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Zesco United claimed a deserved 2-0 victory over Nkana FC in the other group match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Asante Kotoko will host Zesco next Sunday at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi as they will look to grab their first points in the competition.<\/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\/bVb5Ph7E4wk?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko experienced first defeat in their African Campaign on Sunday evening when they lost their game against Al Hilal in Ombdurman, Sudan. The porcupines had a night to forget as they fell short in Sudan. Al Hilal scored in the 4oth minute through\u00a0Waleed Bakhiek Hamid who connected with a headed pass from\u00a0Nasr El Din<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17895,"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":[9536,8417],"tags":[9537,6875,8633,7337],"class_list":{"0":"post-17891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-caf-confederation-cup","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-al-hilal","10":"tag-asante-kotoko","11":"tag-caf-confederations-cup","12":"tag-sudan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yacou.jpg?fit=1200%2C795&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4Ez","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17838,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/caf-cc-asante-kotoko-sudan-match-al-hilal\/","url_meta":{"origin":17891,"position":0},"title":"CAF CC: Asante Kotoko arrive in Sudan for match against Al Hilal","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Asante Kotoko have landed in Sudan where they will face Al Hilal for their first CAF Confederation Cup group game. http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/will-defeat-al-hilal-kotoko-defender-wahab-adams\/ Kotoko arrived Khartoum International Airport in the early hours of Friday, they were welcomed by delegates from the Sudanese Football Federation who assisted them pass airport security and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CAF Confederation Cup&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CAF Confederation Cup","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/category\/caf-confederation-cup\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Breaking: Asante Kotoko release five players","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kotoko-in-sudan.jpg?fit=1024%2C595&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kotoko-in-sudan.jpg?fit=1024%2C595&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kotoko-in-sudan.jpg?fit=1024%2C595&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kotoko-in-sudan.jpg?fit=1024%2C595&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17975,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/kotoko-defender-agyeman-badu-calls-support-ahead-zesco-clash\/","url_meta":{"origin":17891,"position":1},"title":"Kotoko defender Agyeman Badu calls for support ahead of Zesco clash","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"February 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Asante Kotoko defender Agyeman Badu have called on the fans to support the team despite the disappointing defeat against Al Hilal in Sudan. 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