{"id":220234,"date":"2026-01-12T23:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gpl-medeama-tighten-grip-kotoko-drop-points-again\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:32:35","slug":"ghana-gpl-medeama-tighten-grip-kotoko-drop-points-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gpl-medeama-tighten-grip-kotoko-drop-points-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GPL &#8211; Medeama Tighten Grip, Kotoko Drop Points Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">MEDEAMA SC tightened their grip on the Ghana Premier League title race with a commanding 3-0 victory over Young Apostles at the TnA Stadium yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Mauve and Yellow produced another assured performance, underlining their Premier League title credentials as they moved at least four points clear of their closest challengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Determined to maintain momentum in their pursuit of a second Premier League crown, Medeama took control of the contest with a dominant first-half display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120173.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>MEDEAMA SC tightened their grip on the Ghana Premier League title race with a commanding 3-0 victory over Young Apostles at the TnA Stadium yesterday. The Mauve and Yellow produced another assured performance, underlining their Premier League title credentials as they moved at least four points clear of their closest challengers. Determined to maintain momentum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220235,"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":[258,256,7431,4508,4509,40871,6847,20912,24736,257,7508,254,24047],"class_list":["post-220234","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-gpl","tag-grip","tag-kotoko","tag-medeama","tag-news","tag-points","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tighten"],"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\/220234","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=220234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}