{"id":43052,"date":"2025-03-10T01:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=43052"},"modified":"2025-03-10T01:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:41:51","slug":"gpl-week-23-review-kotoko-hearts-of-oak-goldstars-pick-wins-as-nations-fc-stumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/gpl-week-23-review-kotoko-hearts-of-oak-goldstars-pick-wins-as-nations-fc-stumble\/","title":{"rendered":"GPL Week 23 Review: Kotoko, Hearts of Oak, GoldStars pick wins as Nations FC stumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of the Ghana Premier League across varied match venues in the country witnessed some interesting results with Hearts of Oak, Kotoko, Medeama SC ensuring they returned with a bang.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/ins>The league was put on hold for over a month following the death of Kotoko supporter, Francis Yaw Frimpong at Nsoatre in a league game against Nsoatreman FC.<\/p>\n

Dreams FC continued to struggle as they found it difficult to break former league champions Aduana Stars at the Tuba AstroTurf.<\/p>\n

Vision FC drew 1-1 with Hearts of Lions.
\n<\/ins><\/p>\n

WEEK 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hearts of Oak – Young Apostles<\/p>\n

[Awuah M.,<\/strong>Rahman R. A.<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kotoko 2-0 Legon Cities<\/p>\n

[P.Asiedu, Kwame Poku<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Medeama SC 3-1\u00a0 Bechem United<\/p>\n

[<\/strong>Mamudu K.,<\/strong>Sarpong M.,<\/strong>Nkrumah K.<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dreams FC 0-0 Aduana Stars<\/p>\n

Karela 1-1 GoldStars<\/p>\n

[Abdul Karim \u2013 F.Gariba]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berekum Cheslea 3-1 Accra Lions<\/p>\n

[S.Amankona 3x –\u00a0<\/strong>Akintunde D<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

GoldStars\u00a0 1-0 Nations FC<\/p>\n

[Nkoah M.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vision FC 1-1 Hearts of Lions<\/p>\n

[<\/strong>Tei G. – K.Pong<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karela – HolyStars<\/p>\n

[Adamu A. – <\/strong>Bismark T.<\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nsoatreman – Samartex<\/p>\n

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The return of the Ghana Premier League across varied match venues in the country witnessed some interesting results with Hearts of Oak, Kotoko, Medeama SC ensuring they returned with a bang.\u00a0 The league was put on hold for over a month following the death of Kotoko supporter, Francis Yaw Frimpong at Nsoatre in a league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43053,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-ghana-premier-league"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GoldStars-Nations-FC.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-bco","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33749,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/betpawa-ghana-premier-league-2022-23-fixtures-kotoko-to-host-nsoatreman-hearts-to-face-bechem\/","url_meta":{"origin":43052,"position":0},"title":"betPawa Ghana Premier League 2022\/23 Fixtures: Kotoko to host Nsoatreman, Hearts to face Bechem","author":"Admin","date":"August 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2022\/23 betPawa Ghana Premier League will kick off on the weekend of Friday, September 9 to Monday, September 12 across the country. 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