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Statistics after match day 23
Hearts surrendered top spot to Wa All Stars, while Techiman City edged to end their unbeaten home run
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West African Football Academy (WAFA) shattered the away invincibility of Hearts of oak when they thrashed them 3-0 at the Sogakope astroturf Park. Hearts had won 5, drawn 6 ahead of the tie and were expectant of avoiding a defeat, despite WAFA boasting of an incredible home form, but in the end, the academy boys went on the rampage and reduced the Phobians into shreds.
Wa All Stars dislodged Hearts of Oak from the summit of the league table when they defeated Bechem United 2-0 after the Phobians had fallen on Saturday at Sogakope.
Asante Kotoko returned to winning ways, after 5 games without victory when they piped Dreams FC by a goal to nil through a controversial late penalty. The penalty call almost resulted in a confusion as the playing body got mad at the referee for his decision.
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After sanity prevailed, Amos Frimpong the skipper of Asante KotoAAko stepped up to score from the spot-kick. Frimpong is now on 7 goals, making him the joint leading top scorers of the club with Dauda Mohammed.
The goal has made Amos Frimpong the highest scoring defender in the ongoing season
In-form Dwarfs ended Techiman City’s enviable unbeaten home run this season when they edged them 1-0.
Ebusua Dwarfs have won 5. lost 2 and drawn 1 of their past 8 league games to lift themselves from the drop zone to 9th position on the league log.
The troubles of New Edubiase United continued on match day 23 when Ashanti Gold hammered them 2-0 at the Len Clay Sports Stadium, Obuasi. New Edubiase are still lying bottom of the log sheet with 21 points and are in danger of facing relegation for the first time since they got promoted to the top-flight in the 2010-11 league season.
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General stats
A total of 184 matches have been played thus far.
A total of 362 goals have been scored, which is an average of 1.967 goals per game.
Aduana Stars have scored the highest number of goals, scoring 32 in the process.
Sekondi Hasaacas have let in 35 goals, which are the highest number of goals conceded
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Wa All Stars are the team with the best defence, conceding 14 goals
A total of 134 wins have been recorded in 184 games, a percentage of 72.82% of wins.
Wa All Stars have won more league games than any other side: 12 wins in 23 games
There have been 24 away wins. In percentage wise, it is 17.91%
48 drawn games have been witnessed in 184 league matches, which is 26.08%.
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Ashgold have drawn twelve (14) games which is the most by a club.
The most goals scored on a match day were 25: match day 6.
The least number of goals scored on a match day were 10, which happened on match day 19.
The highest scoring games were witnessed on match day two and six. On match day 2 Hasaacas defeated Techiman City 4-2 and on match day 6, Liberty Professionals demolished league champions Ashgold 5-1, Kotoko 4-2 Techiman City and Aduana Stars 4-2 Bechem United, all in 6-goal thriller
The highest number of goals scored by a single club in a game were 5 goals by WAFA in a 5-0 win over Hasaacas on match day 3 and Liberty Professionals when they defeated Ashgold 5-1 on match day 6.
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Stats on players
Yahaya Mohammed and Latif Blessing are joint the leading top-scorers of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) with 13 goals
Dauda Mohammed scored the fastest goal of the first half of the season. It came under one (1) minute against Dreams FC at Dawu on match day 8
Charles Boateng was the first player to score a goal this season, when his opener aided WAFA to edge Kotoko 2-0, with Samuel Tetteh scoring the other in the opening day of the Ghana Premier League
The first hat-trick of the season was registered by Samuel Tetteh on match day 3 when WAFA thrashed Hasaacas 5-0. Yahaya Mohammed registered the second hat-trick of the season, after hitting 3 past Hasaacas on match day 8. Dauda Mohammed completed the first round of the season with the 3rd hat-trick as Kotoko defeated Techiman City 4-2, before Latif Blessing bagged a hat-trick against Hasaacas to record the 4 of the season.
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12 players scored a brace after the first round of matches: Maxwell Baako of Wa All Stars, Latif Blessing of Liberty Professionals (scored a brace twice), Eric Bekoe of Hasaacas, Musah Ibrahim of Hearts of Oak, Saddick Adams of Berekum (twice) Chelsea, Magnus Ebo Duncan of Hasaacas , Yahaya Mohammed of Aduana Stars (thrice), Dauda Mohammed, Bright Adjei (Aduana Stars), Bright Lukman (Dwarfs), Richmond Lamptey (WAFA) and Kojo Poku (Hasaacas)
The first player to be sent off was Eric Kumi, for receiving the 2nd booking for taking off his shirt, after scoring against Medeama.
Emmanuel Hayford and Lord Ofushene of Dreams FC and Inter Allies respectively were the first two persons to see a direct red card, following a scuffle between them in their sides 2-2 draw.
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