{"id":37626,"date":"2023-09-13T02:14:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37626"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:12","slug":"ernest-nuamah-scores-provides-assist-as-ghana-pick-comfortable-win-over-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/13\/ernest-nuamah-scores-provides-assist-as-ghana-pick-comfortable-win-over-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Nuamah scores, provides assist as Ghana pick comfortable win over Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernest Nuamah scored and provided an assist as <a href=\"http:\/\/myjoyonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ghana<\/a> picked a comfortable 3-1 win over Liberia in an international friendly at the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first period of the game was without goals, with the best chance of the half falling to Antoine Semenyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bournemouth forward picked the ball from his half with the Liberia keeper way off his line. The 23-year-old pushed the ball all the way to the opposition box, giving away a goal kick when he had the option of attempting a shot from distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernest Nuamah opened the scoring for the Black Stars with a fantastic half-volley after taking down a brilliantly lobbed pass in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is his second goal for Ghana after scoring his debut goal for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Black Stars<\/a> in the 2-1 win over the Central African Republic on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven minutes later, Mohammed Kudus added the second from a Nuamah pass after showing awareness to take down an air ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudus brought down the ball with his chest, and got past a defender before firing into the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan Ayew wrapped up the scoring for Ghana with his 20th international goal for the Black Stars in the 82nd minute. It was a second-time finish after his initial attempt was stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divine Teah scored the consolation for the Lone Stars in the 90th minute after poor defending from Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Black Stars will now turn their attention to the October friendlies against the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Nuamah scored and provided an assist as Ghana picked a comfortable 3-1 win over Liberia in an international friendly at the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[4553,4899,12974,6573,502,1065,8924,192,10954,6654,12143,1988,1510,8707,10917,11259,7419,9262],"class_list":["post-37626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-accra","tag-african","tag-antoine-semenyo","tag-black","tag-bournemouth","tag-central-african-republic","tag-chance","tag-ghana","tag-international","tag-jordan","tag-kudus","tag-liberia","tag-mexico","tag-mohammed-kudus","tag-poor","tag-shot","tag-the-game","tag-united-states"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37628,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626\/revisions\/37628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}