{"id":23531,"date":"2024-03-23T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-ayew-reflects-on-black-stars-defeat-to-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:03:14","slug":"friendly-ayew-reflects-on-black-stars-defeat-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-ayew-reflects-on-black-stars-defeat-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Ayew reflects on Black Stars\u2019 defeat to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Black Stars of Ghana forward Jordan Ayew believes the team gave their best against Nigeria despite playing with 10-men for most part of the second half in Friday\u2019s friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Opoku was sent off by the centre referee for a rash challenge in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo\u2019s side were 1-0 down at that period following Cyriel Dessers\u2019 first half opener for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars dominated the second half despite their numerical disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>The former African champions however conceded the second goal seven minutes from time before Ayew reduced the deficit with a stoppage time penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew, who plays for Premier League club Crystal Palace insisted that they deserved something from the game.<br \/>\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t really affect us, it gave us even more energy, more strength to keep on doing what we were doing because I had a feeling that we were the better team in the second half,\u201d Ayew told reporters in the mixed zone after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know in football, sometimes things go your way, sometimes don\u2019t go your way and I think we put them under pressure, we went toe-to-toe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a really good second half so we need to build on that and it\u2019s a positive thing for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friendly: Ayew reflects on Black Stars\u2019 defeat to Nigeria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars of Ghana forward Jordan Ayew believes the team gave their best against Nigeria despite playing with 10-men for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12739,9284,12672,15,160],"tags":[12740,2696,12673,180,201,1041],"class_list":["post-23531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ayew","category-black-stars","category-friendly","category-news","category-sport","tag-ayew","tag-black","tag-friendly","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}