GPL Match Week 5: Kotoko, Hearts, Ashgold record wins as Aduana, Dreams stumble
Kumasi Asante Kotoko ushered Ghana Premier League lovers into the weekend when they engage the services of Legon Cities at their adopted home venue, Accra Sports Stadium.
The Kumasi “Galacticos” were coming into this duel on the heels of successive draws to Eleven Wonders, Berekum Chelsea, and a continental showdown to cap it off.
An Osman Ibrahim strike in the 10th minute gave them all three points over Bashiru Hayford’s Legon Cities.
In other games, Medeama SC were the only side to recorded an away victory, as well as their first of the season against a spirited, Ebusua, Dwarfs at the Cape Coast Stadium in week five of the ongoing campaign through a Boateng Agyenim goal.
AshantiGold SC put their early exit from their continental engagement against Salitas behind them by recording an emphatic 4-2 victory over Elmina Sharks FC at the Len Clay Stadium on Sunday.
A brace from debutant Dacosta Boadu, a goal each for David Abagna Sandan and Appiah McCarthy whiles the away side halved their deficit through Benjamin Bernard Boateng and Benjamin Tweneboah.
The Carl Reindorf Park saw Liberty Professionals get the bragging rights over their fiercest regional rivals, Great Olympics, when a Simon Appiah brace in each half ensured their first win of the season easing the daunting pressure on David Ocloo after three successive draws.
Hearts of Oak redeemed themselves from their shattering image following a two-nil victory over Dreams FC in a televised late kickoff at the Accra Sports Stadium.
GHPL WEEK FIVE
Kotoko 1-0 Legon Cities
[Ibrahim Osman]
Ebusua Dwarfs 0-1 Medeama SC
[Boateng Agyenim]
Inter Allies 1-2 Bechem United
[Paul Abanga – Salifu Moro,Hafiz Konkoni]
AshGold 4-2 Elmina Sharks
[Dacosta Boadu 2x,David Abagna,Appiah McCarthy – Bernard Boateng and Benjamin Tweneboah]
Liberty 2-0 Great Olympics
[Simon Appiah 2x]
Karela United 2 – 0 King Faisal
[Taylor Diawusie and Kwame Boateng]
Aduana Stars 1-1 Eleven Wonders
[Yahaya Mohammed – Samuel Boakye]
WAFA SC 2-0 Berekum Chelsea
[Augustine Boakye, Daniel Lomotey]
Hearts of Oak 3-0 Dreams FC
[Kwame Obeng Junior, Michelle Sarpong 2x]
