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

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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.

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