GPL Week 1 Preview: Medeama vs Great Olympics
Tarkwa based Medeama will begin their Ghana Premier League 2020-21 season opener against Great Olympics in Tarkwa on Sunday.
The Mauve and Yellow side have on two occasions gone close to ending their log wait for a Premier League title.
This season with the massive injection of a whopping $300,000 sponsorship package into the side by Gold Fields West Africa, it will go a long way to augment the side to properly challenge for honors this season.
It came as little surprise when the club signed six new players (Kwadwo Asamoah, Patrick Yeboah, Frank Boateng, Musah Baba Abdulai, Abdul Basit Adam, Abass Mohammed) to augment the squad ahead of the new campaign.
Though they lost the talismanic goal machine, Prince Opoku Agyemang to Cape Town City in the just-ended season, their ability to stand firm and ward off stiff advances from Kotoko regarding Justice Blay declared all intentions for this season.
Accra Great Olympics escaped relegation by the skin of the teeth courtesy, the novel coronavirus. This scare certainly awakens the demon in them, as they dipped into the market to sign players to complement their fragile squad. The inclusion of Ebenezer Sekyere, Charles Danso Otu, Mannan Mudasiru, Michael Otoo, Karim Alhassan, Alhassan Sunday, Mujeeb Hakeem, Arnold Mensah Abbey buoyed by experienced captain Gladson Awako.
Both sides have played nine (9) times with each other winning four (4) respectively with the other ending in a draw. Medeama triumph over Great Olympics by a solitary goal prior to the cancellation of the league last season.
Medeama will be keen to build momentum against Olympics after coming close to the Premier League title on two occasions.
Predictions
Medeama 2-0 Great Olympics
