{"id":479892,"date":"2026-06-02T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479892\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:08:08","slug":"wales-1-1-ghana-lewis-koumas-heads-in-late-equaliser-for-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479892\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales 1-1 Ghana: Lewis Koumas heads in late equaliser for hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Koumas headed an equaliser in time added on to earn Wales a 1-1 friendly draw at home to Ghana, who were denied a winning start under Carlos Queiroz as part of their World Cup preparations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniel James hit the post and crossbar in quick succession for the home side during a first half which Wales controlled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an indifferent opening hour at a sparsely populated Cardiff City Stadium, Ghana rewarded their exuberant fans with the opening goal as substitute Caleb Yirenkyi struck on the rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales eventually got the goal their performance deserved in the third minute of added time, when Neco Williams&#8217; inviting cross from the right was nodded in by a stooping Koumas to score his first international goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having missed out on World Cup qualification by losing to Bosnia-Herzegovina at this ground in March, this was a third game without victory for Craig Bellamy&#8217;s men, even if the performance had its bright moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As disappointing as it was for Ghana to squander their winning position, a draw after five successive losses will serve as a timely confidence boost before taking on a World Cup group in which they have been drawn alongside England, Croatia and Panama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Koumas headed an equaliser in time added on to earn Wales a 1-1 friendly draw at home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-479892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}