Elsewhere on Sunday, Ashanti Gold picked up a 2-1 away win over Great Olympics to move top of the table. Gladson Awako gave the home side a 14th-minute lead but Amos Addai and Yaw Annor hit back for the Miners at the Accra Sports Stadium.
At the Nana Fosu Gyeabour Park, Bechem United were held to a 1-1 draw by King Faisal, denying the Hunters a chance to take a two-point lead at the top of the standings. Moro Salifu scored first for Bechem but Kwame Peprah fetched the equaliser for the visitors just a minute after half-time. Faisal sit bottom of the league table.
[Assistant] coach Johnson Smith has been appointed to lead the team in the interim.
Club Notice
Management of Asante Kotoko Sporting Club wishes to inform the general public that it has decided to part ways with Coach Maxwell Konadu as its Head Coach with immediate effect.
Coach Johnson Smith has been appointed to lead the team in the interim. pic.twitter.com/sPTeDpDc9r Asante Kotoko SC (@AsanteKotoko SC) December 18, 2020
Kotoko opened their GPL season with a 1-1 home draw with Eleven Wonders before holding Berekum Chelsea to a 1-1 statement on matchday two.
Last week, the Porcupine Warriors registered their first win of the season in a 1-0 result over Legon Cities. Thursday s 1-0 loss to Olympics owing to Michael Yeboah s 54th-minute goal for the away side proved the coach s last straw.
Black Stars striker , Asamoah Gyan
Ghana legend Asamoah Gyan has been named the Most Attractive Player in the Ghana Premier League (GPL) by the African Sports Centre for Data, Research, and Technology (ASC).
The former Sunderland, Udinese and Stade Rennais man is the new poster boy of the top-flight, taking over from former Asante Kotoko star Sogne Yacouba who led the order in 2019.
He beat off loose competition from Medeama and former Asante Kotoko midfielder Justice Blay, Kotoko goalkeeper and captain Felix Annan, Aduana Stars striker Yahaya Mohammed, Hearts of Oak winger Patrick Razak and new Kotoko Brazilian signing Fabio Gama Cos Santos.
I think it is a brave move,” Boateng told Joy Sports. If you are a young footballer and you want to make it in the game and you have a huge star like Gyan playing beside you, you can’t get a better way of motivation than that.
“For those who are playing, not only with him but the others in the league, it is outstanding.
“You see an ex-star who has been the country’s captain for many years, playing in the league you’re playing, you have to go by that as an inspiration.”
Gyan featured for Liberty Professionals in the Ghana Premier League before leaving for Udinese in Italy in 2003.
The news was captured in the 2020 Ghana Premier League Report released to the general public via ASC s official website on Thursday.
According to the ASC, the report is based on a nationwide survey involving a sample size of 3,300 respondents in Ghana. Data was collected in every administrative district in each administrative region of the country, giving the research and its findings a strong base . Attractive” was defined as the one player that is most likely to draw or pull respondents to watch a GPL game or follow the GPL .
The research was conducted between October and November last year before the commencement of the 2020-21 GPL season.