{"id":27544,"date":"2023-12-11T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/?p=27544"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:58:57","slug":"hearts-robbed-var-would-have-saved-hearts-of-oak-in-kumasi-sports-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/hearts-robbed-var-would-have-saved-hearts-of-oak-in-kumasi-sports-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts Robbed &#8211; VAR Would Have Saved Hearts Of Oak In Kumasi Sports Stadium!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ghanaian football, VAR is important if we wish to avoid a situation similar to what happened on May 9. What prevented the assistant referee from flagging Kotoko&#8217;s second goal against Heart at that moment? The VAR may have been provided by regular cameras; all that would have needed to be done was playback to see the imprint. Against Accra Hearts of Oak, the second goal was offside.<\/p>\n<p>GFA has to be blamed for the falling standard of Ghanaian football. They have failed to improve upon what matters in the football.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at the Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi Asante Kotoko defeated Accra Hearts of Oak, their long-time rivals, 3-2 in the Ghana Premier League&#8217;s week 14 match.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Phobians&#8217; pregame claims of a decisive win, the Asanteman contingent took home the bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts launched their first attempt in less than a minute, but Hamza Issah&#8217;s header from Michael Ampadu&#8217;s low cross to the right went over the bar by miles.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick move led by Steven Mukwala, Kotoko almost immediately countered on the other end, but Peter Amidu&#8217;s last shot struck the side net.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Mukwala almost broke the deadlock with a powerful header from a corner kick, but Richmond Ayi in post for the Phobians denied the Ugandan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">The next big opportunity again fell to Mukwala whose acrobatic attempt at the far end missed target by inches.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ghanaian football, VAR is important if we wish to avoid a situation similar to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[1,45],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",1024,538,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",825,433,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg",590,310,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"nkyeremunews","author_link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/author\/nkyeremunews\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/uncategorised\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Nkyeremu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BeFunky-collag-2023-12-11T145344.554.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}