{"id":293625,"date":"2025-11-15T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293625\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:44:07","slug":"check-out-black-stars-player-ratings-against-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293625\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Black Stars player ratings against Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">The Black Stars lost 2-0 to Japan in the 2025 Kirin Challenge Cup at Toyota Stadium on Friday, November 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese side started the game by piling pressure on the Black Stars, controlling possession and dominating play.<\/p>\n<p>A goal in both halves of the game from AS Monaco&#8217;s Takumi Minamino and Ritsu Doan of Eintracht Frankfurt delivered an emphatic victory for the Asian giants.<\/p>\n<p>Kwasi Sibo was heavily overwhelmed in the game as he did not receive support from his midfield partners, which hampered their performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Augustine-Arhinful-blames-Ghana-s-defeat-to-Japan-on-the-absence-of-Partey-Kudus-and-Jordan-Ayew-2009611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Augustine Arhinful blames Ghana\u2019s defeat to Japan on the absence of Partey, Kudus and Jordan Ayew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The likes of Semenyo and Thomas-Asante did not have their best performances and failed to score.<\/p>\n<p>Alidu Seidu and Gideon Mensah were introduced later in the game but could not make much impact to overturn the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>The team will travel to face South Korea in their second friendly of the tour on November 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the player ratings of the Black Stars players after the game:<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Anang &#8211; 6.2<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Yirenkyi &#8211; 6.5<\/p>\n<p>Kojo Peprah &#8211; 6.2<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Adjetey &#8211; 6.3<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Opoku &#8211; 6.1<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Kohn &#8211; 6.9<\/p>\n<p>Francis Abu &#8211; 6.7<\/p>\n<p>Kwasi Sibo &#8211; 6.4<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Brandon-Asante &#8211; 5.9<\/p>\n<p>Kamaldeen Sulemana &#8211; 6.0<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Semenyo &#8211; 5.7<\/p>\n<p>JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Stars lost 2-0 to Japan in the 2025 Kirin Challenge Cup at Toyota Stadium on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-293625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}