{"id":23419,"date":"2022-06-14T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23419"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:13","slug":"kirin-cup-ghana-finish-third-after-penalties-shootout-victory-over-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/14\/kirin-cup-ghana-finish-third-after-penalties-shootout-victory-over-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirin Cup: Ghana Finish Third After Penalties Shootout Victory Over Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdul Manaf Nurudeen was the hero of the Black Stars after saving two penalties as nine-man Ghana defeated Chile to finish third at the Kirin Cup tournament in Japan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a pulsating 90 minutes of action, the game had to be settled from the spot, with Jordan Ayew, Mohammed Kudus and Fatawu Issahaku all converting for the Black Stars.<\/p>\n

The Black Stars started the game the better of the two sides, with Ghana dominating possession but failed to create clear cut chances.<\/p>\n

Fatawu Issahaku twice fired from afar but his efforts were woeful as both strikes went behind for goal kicks.<\/p>\n

The Black Stars kept flooding the Chile half but the South Americans were resolute in defence.<\/p>\n

After the break the Black Stars came close through forward Benjamin Tetteh, whose effort hit the cross bar.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Andre Ayew pulled a great save from the Chile goalkeeper before Afena-Gyan also fired from 30 yards.<\/p>\n

Ghana were reduced to ten men after Clermont Foot defender Alidu Seidu lunged on a Chile player following a miskick.<\/p>\n

It went from bad to worse for the Black Stars as midfielder Mubarak Wakaso got sent off for a second yellow Ghana.<\/p>\n

The Chileans took advantage of a nine-man Ghana team to dominate the final ten minutes, with Gary Medel coming close with a long range strike.<\/p>\n

Ghana maintained their composure to force the game into penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdul Manaf Nurudeen was the hero of the Black Stars after saving two penalties as nine-man Ghana defeated Chile to finish third at the Kirin Cup tournament in Japan.\u00a0 After a pulsating 90 minutes of action, the game had to be settled from the spot, with Jordan Ayew, Mohammed Kudus and Fatawu Issahaku all converting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[8642,8847,6573,189,5262,5787,192,803,2959,6654,12143,12309,8707,7968,8874,5818,12740,7419,10885],"class_list":["post-23419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alidu-seidu","tag-andre-ayew","tag-black","tag-chile","tag-cut","tag-flood","tag-ghana","tag-goalkeeper","tag-japan","tag-jordan","tag-kudus","tag-men","tag-mohammed-kudus","tag-nine","tag-penalties","tag-strike","tag-tetteh","tag-the-game","tag-victory"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50901,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419\/revisions\/50901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}