{"id":246295,"date":"2026-10-04T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gambia-two-easy-goals-killed-our-morale-carlos-queiroz-reacts-after-black-stars-shocking-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:30:11","slug":"ghana-gambia-two-easy-goals-killed-our-morale-carlos-queiroz-reacts-after-black-stars-shocking-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gambia-two-easy-goals-killed-our-morale-carlos-queiroz-reacts-after-black-stars-shocking-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Gambia: &#8216;Two Easy Goals Killed Our Morale&#8217; &#8211; Carlos Queiroz Reacts After Black Stars&#8217; Shocking Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Black Stars coach Carlos Queiroz says two soft goals conceded just before half-time destroyed his team&#8217;s morale and turned the game against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Ghana were in total control at the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday, leading 2-0 through Ernest Nuamah&#8217;s penalty and Felix Afena-Gyan&#8217;s low drive, and looked set for a comfortable win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">But the Scorpions pulled one back from the spot and snatched an equaliser before the break, leaving the home side stunned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610010129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Black Stars coach Carlos Queiroz says two soft goals conceded just before half-time destroyed his team&#8217;s morale and turned the game against them. Ghana were in total control at the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday, leading 2-0 through Ernest Nuamah&#8217;s penalty and Felix Afena-Gyan&#8217;s low drive, and looked set for a comfortable win. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246296,"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":[258,256,8561,15613,6531,13052,4509,43707,6628,4327,9445,257,41112,9690,10971,254,9435],"class_list":["post-246295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-carlos","tag-defeat","tag-easy","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanagambia","tag-goals","tag-killed","tag-morale","tag-news","tag-queiroz","tag-reacts","tag-shocking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars"],"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\/246295","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=246295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}