Asante Kotoko maintained their 100% record in the 2019/20 Ghana Premier League season after producing a stunning performance to beat Legon Cities FC at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday night.
The Porcupine Warriors recovered from a goal down to win 3-1 with Emmanuel Gyamfi bagging a brace.
The match lived up to expectations as fans were thrilled to brilliant football as well as a great performance by Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale at halftime.
Legon Cities got the breakthrough in the 10th minute. They attacked down the left-wing with Romeo Oppong getting to the end of a long pass to send in a shot across which was met by Papadopoulos Panayotis for the opener. The goal came at the time the host were in control of the game. However, after scoring, Kotoko upped their game and started dominating and dictating play.
Kotoko had a penalty appeal waved away by the referee. It appeared a Cities defender handled the ball in an attempt to clear Augustine Okrah’s header inside the penalty box.
The pressure paid off in the 33rd minute when they equalised through Augustine Okrah. The forward received a clever pass from Songne Yacouba and dinked the ball over goalkeeper Fatau Dauda.
The Porcupine Warriors came into the second hungrier. Eight minutes into the half, they were rewarded with the second goal. Emmanuel Gyamfi broke through Cities defence and placed a low shot into the net.
Two minutes later, Gyamfi scored his brace and Kotoko’s third of the night when he moved into the right channel to tap the ball home from close range.
The scoreline stayed the same until fulltime. However, between the two sides, it was Kotoko that came closest uttering the result.
The win moved Kotoko to the summit of the table with six points after their opening day victory against Eleven Wonders. For Legon Cities, they are still without a win after two games despite all the social hype.
