FT : Confederation cup second leg tie Hearts 1: 1 Esperance
Accra Hearts of Oak have taken an early lead to boost their chances of staging a dramatic come back.
Hearts Starting line up:
1 Soulama
2 Fatawu
3 Oduro
4 Boampong
5 Gnange (c)
6 Laryea
7 Acquah
8 Yamoah
9 Foovi
10 Kumi
11 Mensah
Esperance starting line up:
Ben Cherifia, H Ragued (c), H Afful, Y Mohammed, A Moez, S Derbali, D M'hirsi, I M'Barki, G Chalali, S Emem, M Amine
1 Game underway with both sides giving a good account of themselves in the early exchanges
2 a big chances for Hearts of Oak to test goalkeeper of Esperance but the he fails to take the opportunity
3An Esperance player down at the moment but Paul Acquah has shown promise in the first half of the game
4Gaoolllllllllllllllllll Isaac Mensah out jumps every ones and plant the ball into the net to hand Hearts and early goal
8 Ghanaian utility player Harrison afful sets up his colleague but the ball is called for an offside
10 Esperance still struggling to find their feet in this game leading Hearts to dominate the play at the moment
15. Hearts striker Foovi with another wonderful opportunity to extend the lead but lets it go wild
18 Hearts srriker Eric Kumi is down after a hard tackle from Ragued
22 Esperance calve out another opportunity from Derbali but goalkeeper Soulama abdoulaye is up to the task
25 Boampong is down after a heavy tackle from Mohammed and both sides take opportunity to drink water after a very heated contest.
27 Ben Cherifa the goalkeeper for Esperance using his experience to slow down play
28 Yamoah fails to control a beautiful ball and it ends up being a wonderful chance for Espernace but they fail to capitalize
30 The home side will all the possession and Esperance doing the simply things right and keeping it thight
32 Esperance goalkeeper Ben Cherifia down with what is suspected to be a muscle problem
34 Hearts of Oak Oduro going down after a tackle from Mohammed of Esperance
36Eric Kumi with a tusslle with Harrison Afful intercedes and calls infavour of the home side
40 The game still very open at the moment
42 Hearts left back Oduro with a wonderful chance but the ball goals out of play from his control
45 Refree bring an end to the first half
46 Second half of the game underway with Hearts having to chase the ball
48 Miscommunicatin between Paul Acquah and Laryear and Hearts of Oak lose possession of the ball
50 Hearts with a free kick in a very dangerous area
52 Daniel Oduro with a nice curler but the ball goes out wide
54 Esperance with a free kick and Harrison Afful goes to kick it up but the ball goes out wide
56 The game yet to still come alive here in the second half
60 Hearts of Oak make their first change of the game Paul Aqcquah out Emmanuel Hayford in
62 Goallllll The ball goes into the net but the referee says the Foovi was in an offside position
64 Hearts of Oak still with the pressure and the game keeps swinging in the different direction
66 Esperance midfielder Harrison Afful down but play continues
68 The ball is sent into Hearts goal post but goalkeeper Soulama picks it up
70 Hearts of Oak right back Fatau with a good run but has no options so the Tunisian take the ball from him
72 Hearts striker Gilbert Fiamenyo comes in for Richard Yamoah
74 Gilbert Fiamenyo with an opportunity to make it 2 for Hearts but the goal goes wide Bad miss
76 Esperance goalie Cherifia comes out to sniff of the danger
78 Hearts with another opportunity from a set piece but the ball wont go in
80 Substitution for Esperance S Eman out Kahmel in
82 Game held on as Esperance have a man down
84 Wonderful run from Daniel Oduro but the ball wont just go in
90 Wassim equalizes for Esperance with a fine goal 1-1
93 The referee bring proceedings to an end
Readers Comment
-
Boateng Emmanuel
9 years ago
Hearts must win
-
Bosco yaw jagri @DAMBAI-ZONGO
9 years ago
Hearts wld surely loose
-
askantwi
9 years ago
What a shame. They couldn't even hold on to that 1-0 lead.
Comments
This article has 3 comment(s) , give your comment