{"id":293692,"date":"2025-11-15T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293692\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:31:08","slug":"augustine-arhinful-blames-ghanas-defeat-to-japan-on-the-absence-of-partey-kudus-and-jordan-ayew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293692\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustine Arhinful blames Ghana\u2019s defeat to Japan on the absence of Partey, Kudus and Jordan Ayew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><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?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/28081917.295.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Jordan Ayew, Kudus Mohammed and Thomas Partey\" title=\"L-R: Jordan Ayew, Kudus Mohammed and Thomas Partey\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>L-R: Jordan Ayew, Kudus Mohammed and Thomas Partey<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Former Ghana international, Augustine Arhinful has blamed the Black Stars&#8217; defeat to Japan on the absence of certain key players.<\/p>\n<p>According to Augustine Arhinful, the presence of Thomas Partey, Kudus Mohammed and captain Jordan Ayew would have easily tilted things in favor of the Black Stars against the Japanese team.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars on Friday, November 14, 2025, lost 2-0 to Japan in the Kirin Challenge Cup at the Toyota Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Black-Stars-jet-off-to-Seoul-for-high-stakes-South-Korea-clash-2009586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Stars jet off to Seoul for high-stakes South Korea clash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the likes of Partey, Kudus, and Jordan Ayew played against Japan,  we wouldn&#8217;t have lost and it was clear in the game,&#8221; he said in an interview with TV3.<\/p>\n<p>Augustine Arhinful also described the outcome of the game as a fair result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results are never in doubt. What we observed here, [the] 2-0, is a fair result. It could have been worse, looking at the number of shots that they [Japan] had in the second half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll still maintain that we should not take these matches for granted because we\u2019ve known for the past two, three months that we\u2019ll be playing South Korea and Japan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L-R: Jordan Ayew, Kudus Mohammed and Thomas Partey Former Ghana international, Augustine Arhinful has blamed the Black Stars&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-293692","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\/293692","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=293692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}