Young Apostles will welcome Hearts of Oak to the Wenchi Sports Stadium in a thrilling match-day 11 of the Ghana Premier League.
Young Apostles will be coming all out for their first ever win over the ‘Phobians’ after falling short in all their two meetings last season.
The Rainbow Club however will be heading into the game like wounded lions given that they haven’t won any of their last two matches
MATCH PREVIEW
Young Apostles have now suffered two consecutive losses in less than a week with the last one coming in a 2-1 defeat to giants Asante Kotoko in Kumasi in the midweek.
Red-hot Hubert Gyau opened the scoring account but a towering header from Richmond Opoku leveled the score before a late controversial penalty caused them to lose the game.
However, the twenty-one champions after the Super-Clash defeat once again dropped another points on the road after being held by Swedru All Blacks to a goalless draw.
The game was very tough for Didi Dramani’s men who at certain point had to do more of defending to prevent danger due to the kind of pressure that was mounted on them especially in the final fifteen minutes.
Hearts of Oak in sixth place with 17 points while Young Apostles are in ninth place with 14 points after ten matches.
TEAM NEWS
While Young Apostles have a full strength squad for the game, Hearts of Oak will miss right-back Yaw Amankwah Baafi due to accumulation of cards
Benjamin Asare has returned to the Hearts camp after the national assignment and coach Mas-Ud Didi Dramani is yet to decide on who will start in goal between him and Solomon Agbasi
LINEUPS
Young Apostles: Boateng (GK), Amegbe, Borrtey, Nyaabila, Rahman, Ramzy, Ganiyu, Huseine, Opoku, Ganiwu, Prempeh
Hearts of Oak: Asare (GK), Ali, Ransford, Asibey, Afrane, Cudjoe, Paaku, Hussein, Karikari, Wayo, Hamza
KICKOFF: 15:00GMT (3:00pm)
PREDICTION
We say Young Apostles 0-1 Hearts of Oak
