{"id":198853,"date":"2025-05-26T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goldstars-kotoko-drop-points-nations-stretch-lead\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:20:37","slug":"ghana-goldstars-kotoko-drop-points-nations-stretch-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goldstars-kotoko-drop-points-nations-stretch-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Goldstars, Kotoko Drop Points, Nations Stretch Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Kumasi Asante Kotoko&#8217;s hope of chasing the Ghana Premier League title to the final day suffered a jolt after drawing goalless with Goldstars in the battle of &#8216;chasers&#8217; played yesterday in Bibiani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Both side trailed the leaders, Nations FC, ahead of the match day 32 matches but yesterday&#8217;s outcome meant Nations FC has stretched the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Goldstars now trail them by three points and Kotoko, five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Coach Karim Zito of Kotoko indicated after yesterday&#8217;s game that the title chase was still on despite&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505260301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumasi Asante Kotoko&#8217;s hope of chasing the Ghana Premier League title to the final day suffered a jolt after drawing goalless with Goldstars in the battle of &#8216;chasers&#8217; played yesterday in Bibiani. Both side trailed the leaders, Nations FC, ahead of the match day 32 matches but yesterday&#8217;s outcome meant Nations FC has stretched the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7431,4508,4509,51447,20912,7358,4301,257,7508,254,18089],"class_list":["post-198853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drop","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-goldstars","tag-kotoko","tag-lead","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-points","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stretch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}