The 2019/2020 Ghana Premier League entered its second week with exciting and mouthwatering fixtures spearheaded by the clash between Legon Cities FC and Asante Kotoko played at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday.
The wonderful packaging of the game by the home side got the stadium impregnated with amazing fans; some were traditional Hearts fans with many also intrigued by the strategic media hype of the new boys.
For fans of Asante Kotoko, this seems their season after their ‘Messiah’ Maxwell Konadu returned to the club giving them a wonderful start to the season. Their massive 3-1 comeback win over Legon Cities greatly boosted their confidence in the league.
With all nine matches played without a hitch, fans of Accra Hearts of Oak continued their agonizing posturing following their embarrassing start to the season, falling flat to Medeama SC by 3-0 at Tarkwa.
Aduana Stars continued their ejaculating start to the league by picking their second win of the season over Great Olympics at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Generally, a total of 17 goals were recorded in a 3-day period of exciting Premier League football.
FootballMadeInGhana.com brings you the general statistics of the league after match day two games:
✓ Medeama SC became the first club to score the first goal in Match Day 2
✓ The fastest goal of Match Day 2 was scored by Prince Opoku of Medeama under 5 minutes against Hearts
✓ Two players recorded braces in Match Day 2 – Emmanuel Gyamfi and Prince Opoku
✓ 6 goals were scored in the first half
✓ 11 goals were scored in the second half
✓ 4 wins were recorded away, an improvement over the number of wins in Match Day 1
✓ 3 wins were recorded at home
✓ 2 games ended in a draw
✓ The 17 goals scored in Match Day 2 meant either clubs defended well or strikers were poor
✓ No hat trick was recorded
✓ A total of 31 cards were recorded in Week 2 compared to 41 in Week 1. This means clubs were either cautious officials were more considerate
✓ One red card was recorded, same as the number in Week 1
✓ In Match Day 1, 10 goals were scored in the first half and 15 scored in the second half. The trend did not change in the Match Day 2 games with 11 of the 17 goals coming in the second half. This means clubs still score more goals in the second half.
✓ 4 games were won in the 1st half, same as the number of wins in Week 1
- Inter Allies, Medeama, WAFA and Dreams FC all won their games in the first half
✓ 3 games were won in the second half compared to 4 wins in the second half in Week 1. This means that clubs were better in the second half in Week 1 than in Week 2.
- AshGold, Aduana Stars and Asante Kotoko won their games after recess
