Elmina Sharks, Ashgold draw, Allies win

League leader, Ashgold was held to a thrilling goalless draw encounter at the Ndoum Stadium at Elmina on Saturday in a match day 12 fixture.

Both sides thrilled the sparse crowd with their end-to-end action but wasted all the glorious chances that came their way.

The height of the afternoon, full of misses was when the Sharks broke from an Ashgold corner midway through the second half but a golden opportunity created as a result was blown off target.

Head Coach of Elmina Sharks FC, Yaw Acheampong expressed his displeasure after his side recorded the goalless result which he attributed to the lack of purpose by his strikers.

“We are disappointed with the results. We planned to win this game but Ashanti Gold SC also came with a plan and they stopped us.”

Even though Acheampong was disappointed with the final results, he praised his players for the performance in the game, adding that, their only low was goal scoring.

At the Tema Stadium, Inter Allies continued their superb home form with a 1-0 win over Berekum Chelsea.

Victorien Adebayo fetched the only goal of the game for the Kenichi Yatsuhashi boys after enduring threats from the stubborn Chelsea side.

Inter Allies looked like a side ready to pounce at any given chance but failed to take advantage of the plethora of chances that came their way.

They kept knocking for the initiative which came through Adebayo in the 78th minute.

Chelsea came all out after conceding the goal and went close to levelling in the dying embers but Coach Keni and his charges run away with another home victory.

Inter Allies move to fourth on the log with 12 points while Berekum Chelsea maintained their 12th position with 12 points but with a game in hand.

 

 

Aduana fall to ASEC

 

Ghana’s Aduana Stars suffered a 1-0 defeat to Cote d’Ivoire champions, Asec Mimosa in their group opener of the CAF Confederations Cup match played yesterday in Abidjan.

 

Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Bechem United forward, Ahmed Toure fired the only goal of the game in the first half of the match.

 

Toure combined with former WAFA striker, Komlan Agbeniadan to torment the Ghanaians who worked hard to keep the score respectable ahead of the second leg tie at Dormaa.

 

 

Liberty Pros pip Karela FC

BY NANA BENTSI ODURO

Substitute Alex Ofosu Acheampong’s 58^th minute strike was all Liberty Professionals needed to claim all three points at stake against surprise package of the campaign, Karela FC in their match day 12 game honoured at the Dansoman Carl Reindorf Park, yesterday.

Ofosu turned hero after finding the target for the host less than a minute of his introduction to the game.

Actually, he scored with his very first touch.

The substitute pounced on William Denkyi’s corner to find the roof of the net of the Karela goal, beating goalkeeper Nii Hammond post.

The visitors reorganised quickly in search of the equaliser but a solid partnership between Prosper Avor and Aikins Baffour at Liberty’s rear thwarted their efforts.

The game was a tense affair right from the beginning with the host declaring intentions to carry the day by making significant inroads into their opponents’ goal area but was mostly unsuccessful.

Liberty pinned Karela into theirown half but the glaring opportunities that fell to Simon Zibo, Flavian Kouassi and Federick Ansah were wasted.

The visitors, however, kept them at bay and showed glimpses of their brilliance whenever they threatened Liberty’s area.

On one such occasion striker Donald Wellington missed the goal by inches with a superbly taken strike just before recess.

The second-half resumed with Liberty’s quartet – Emmanuel Amoh, Bright Andoh , Frederick Ansah and Benjamin Ansah drawing rings in the Karela half but failed to find the back of the net.

They had to wait till the 58th minute when substitute Alex Ofosu finally hit the back of the net from a corner kick with his first touch after he was introduced to take the place of an injured colleague.

Karela accepted the challenge and turned the heat on the host who proved resolute in the defensive area.

However, Karela managed to break the Liberty resistance when they found a way past the defense but Diawase Taylor failed to grab the equaliser in the dying embers of the game.

His effort at goal was blocked by Aikins Baffour as the ‘Scientific Soccer Lads’ soldiered on to the end until the referee whistled for the end of proceedings.

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