With barely twelves weeks to end the season's top-flight football activities, match week eighteen (18) was exhausted over the weekend with some energy sapping and teeth gnawing games at all eight league centers across the country.
As the league gradually reaches its climax, alot more intricacies and fond memories are being left at the latter end of a successful football season.
More than half of football has been played in the 2016 season and it is left with us great times to create and share the nostalgia the season has bereft us.
It is with great effort and enthusiasm that kickgh.com comes your way as a cherished reader with what entailed over the week in the Ghana Premier League in this edition of "THE TALKING POINT".
From a point blank perspective, the weekend round of games recorded one of its lowest goals scored since the league started in February.
It is also the week that goals seemed not to come from anywhere across the centers in the country especially in the first half of matches in all eight league centers where only three were recorded.
A paltry thirteen (13) goals scored in week eighteen (18) of the league speaks volume of how solid clubs have become in preventing opponents from getting a latch of touch in creating avalanche of opportunities to produce goals in the league.
Quite different from other weeks that have produced few number of goals, week eighteen (18) turned to be a cumbersome one in reaching a state of conjuring a specular moments from players on the pitch that could create chances for goal opportunities except the Inter Allies and Kumasi Asante Kotoko game, which gave out so many goal scoring opportunities from both sides especially Inter Allies who squandered chances easier to score than to miss but produced only two goals.
In as much as goal is the most important yardstick in judging the result of a football game after ninety-minutes of normal proceedings, preventing goals from opponents is the highest probable of getting results from a football match.
Most clubs in the league have still failed to find their rhythm after a long run of the league and will be wanting to surmount a comfortable place at the end of the league through a minimum goals conceded if goals do not force goals.
One will ask how much has goals become important in securing a place in next seasons league when head-to-head is the means of measuring teams tied on same points.
Goals scored and concedes will elevate clubs superiority over the other when head-to-head is on tie which clubs are protecting in the league. Lack of goals in week eighteen (18) almost made that round of games a boring one but we hope to see more goals in the reminder of the weeks.
Again, the week recorded low attendance at the various league centers.
Attendance was unexpectedly so high this season during the first round of matches after huge media backing but it has surprisingly gone down.
The four national stadia in the country plus the Len Clay Stadium in Obuasi always recorded high turnout in the local game but it has dropped drastically since the league turned around for the second round fixtures.
Other league venues have not been any exception as it has become hard to get a thousand fan trooping to the venues to watch league games which was not the case in the first round.
Week eighteen (18) will be the week not to remember in terms of spectatorship in our stadia as the turnout was worst.
