As a playwright sits his plot creatively to hold his audience spell bound to his work, so is this Ghana premier league season seemingly unle
As a playwright sits his plot creatively to hold his audience spell bound to his work, so is this Ghana premier league season seemingly unleashing an interesting plot to its numerous audience.
As Kumasi Asante Kotoko appears to to be tearing away, the phobians dream to catch up together with the others. Kotoko fans are absolutely fantasizing about their team’s impending season triumph but one thing perhaps could be elusive regardless of how it is staring at them in the face. The porcupine warriors comfortably occupy the top spot of the table with a ten point lead between them and the second team whilst they have opened a whopping 12 point gap separating them and their fiercest rival. Needless to say Hearts is gnashing.
The season has by far been serene and fascinating without any untoward situation like crowd violence at our stadia whilst the complaints about referee relatively haven’t been many.
Much as the feelings of football fans may be a mixed bag considering the position of your team, there is another story that could be adding a golden glow to the expectant sparkling season’s story which is Bright Adjei and Frank Mbella Etouga’s goal king royal tussle. Frank Mbella featured in his first game for Kotoko against Karela at Enyinase in the game ended in a stalemate. His second game was against King Faisal where the league leaders lost by 3-2. .
The striker registered his first for Kotoko in his third game goal against Real Tamale united however the game ended in a disappointing draw for the porcupine warriors and since he has scored two hat tricks, three braces carving himself as the poster boy for kotoko. So far he has 14 goals to his credit appearing to be the king on the horizon waiting to be crowned as the goal king at the end of the season.
However, that might not come easy as Aduana’s bright Adjei is breathing down on his neck. The former CNN best goal award winner has swarmed from the depth of the river surfacing on it’s banks. Bright Adjei has 12 goals despite not starting well when the campaign started. He has scored a hat trick with two braces in his register.
The last time a foreign player took the Ghanaian league by storm with his goal scoring abilities was two seasons ago when Nigerien import Victorien Adebayor dazzled Ghanaian football fans during that campaign playing for Inter Allies. Similarly as we may be seeing now, Adebayor and Yahaya Mohammed of Aduana were caught up in a cut throat contest for the golden boot.
Unfortunately, what would have been an additional interesting plot to the many subplots of that season was short lived owing to the advent of the covid stalling all activities across the globe. Two seasons on, this like for like situation may be hovering around and i wage this will not be a storm in a tea cup. Many Ghanaian football fans like myself would wish for this to linger on if it could for the rest of the season especially when you have a kotoko striker in the mix.
In match day 18, Aduana played Karela united in Dormaa where the boys from Dormaa won by two goals courtesy Aduana’s new found goal source Bright Adjei. The two goals had increased Bright’s goal tally to 11 same with Mbella at this same time Kotoko were playing Dreams fc at the Baba Yara sports stadium.
The first half looked scrappy for the kum apem a apem beba boys but in the second half Etouga responded with two spectacular goals to pin himself at the top giving us a vivid picture of what ensued two seasons back. It was match day ten Heralded by Victorien Adebayor Inter Allies traveled to Berekum to demolish Chelsea by 3-1 making useless of their home resistance with Adebayor getting a brace. The following day Aduana played Liberty where the scientific lads walloped them 5-2 with the two consolation goals from Yahaya Mohammed. After that game Yahaya confessed on radio he couldn’t sleep because he needed to score to close the gap. The wells of David Abagna, Umar Bashiru, Augustine Okrah, Zubairu Ibrahim, Maxwell Abbey Quaye have run dry. Let this melodrama continue.
By:Nana Yaw Preko Bimpeh /Herosportgh.com
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