For the third time in the second round of the Ghana Premier League, there was no away league victory.
Asante Kotoko and Liberty Professionals went infront, but the hosts, Inter Allies and New Edubiase United snatched the equaliser to deny them an away league victory.
Ghana’s surviving campaigners in the CAF Confederations Cup, Medeama staged a comeback to beat Dreams FC 2-1, after going down by a goal to nil in the first half.
AshGold the defending League champions held the league leaders, Wa All Stars to a goalless draw at the dreaded Wa Park on Sunday. The draw is Ashgold’s 11 drawn game of the season.
Wa All Stars have maintained their lead at the top of the league table, after match day 18, with Kotoko trailing them by just a point.
The Hearts of Oak game against Aduana Stars was the match of the week, but it couldn’t produce a winner as the two sides drew blank. The home fans were disappointed with the results, since nothing has changed in terms of results under the Portuguese trainer Sergio Tranguil, after the exit of Kenichi Yatsuhashi. Majority were dispirited, citing that both attendance and results have gone down after post-Kenichi, something they warned the board about.
Latif Blessing the second leading top scorer in the ongoing league, opened his goal account in the second round when he hit the back of the net against New Edubiase at Obuasi to increase his tally to 10 goals.
General stats
A total of 143 matches have been played thus far.
A total of 290 goals have been scored, which is an average of 2.02 goals per game.
Aduana Stars have scored the highest number of goals, scoring 28 in the process.
Sekondi Hasaacas have let in 29 goals, which are the highest number of goals conceded
Wa All Stars are the team with the best defence, conceding 10 goals
A total of 105 wins have been recorded in 143 games, a percentage of 73.4% of wins.
Wa All Stars, Kotoko and Aduana Stars have won more league games than any other side: 9 wins in 17 games
There have been 20 away wins. In percentage wise it is 19.04%
38 drawn games have been witnessed in 143 league games, which is 26.57%.
Ashgold have drawn nine (11) 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 11, which happened on match day 12
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 Aduan 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.
Stats on players
Yahaya Mohammed is the leading top-scorer of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) with 12 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, before Dauda Mohammed completed the first round of the season with the 3 hat-trick as Kotoko defeated Techiman City 4-2
9 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 and Bright Adjei (Aduana Stars)
The first player to be sent off was Eric Kumi, for receiving a 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.