{"id":246895,"date":"2026-04-10T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=246895"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:48:14","slug":"the-boys-are-ready-to-fight-back-against-medeama-kotoko-coach-prince-owusu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/10\/the-boys-are-ready-to-fight-back-against-medeama-kotoko-coach-prince-owusu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Boys are ready to fight back against Medeama\u201d- Kotoko Coach Prince Owusu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asante Kotoko&nbsp;interim head coach&nbsp;Prince Yaw Owusu&nbsp;says his side is determined to respond strongly after a disappointing home defeat to&nbsp;FC Samartex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kotoko suffered a 2\u20131 loss at the&nbsp;Baba Yara Stadium, with the match concluded on Monday, April 6, after heavy rains forced a halt to play a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result leaves the Porcupine Warriors fourth on the&nbsp;Ghana Premier League&nbsp;table on 43 points, eight behind leaders&nbsp;Bibiani Gold Stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kotoko now travels to Tarkwa to face&nbsp;Medeama SC&nbsp;on Sunday, April 12. Medeama head into the clash on the back of a poor run that has seen them surrender a nine-point lead and slip to second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the club\u2019s media, Owusu stressed that the focus within the squad is firmly on delivering a positive reaction this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIn life, things happen; when it happens, you don\u2019t have to let it keep you down. I have spoken to them\u2026the boys are ready to fight back and make sure they bring some life into the supporters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe are just going to counter attack and see if we can bring them down\u201d Prince Owusu said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asante Kotoko&nbsp;interim head coach&nbsp;Prince Yaw Owusu&nbsp;says his side is determined to respond strongly after a disappointing home defeat to&nbsp;FC Samartex.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,24,52],"class_list":["post-246895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-asante-kotoko","tag-medeama-sc","tag-prince-owusu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}