Hearts hold Stay Cool

Accra, July 6, GNA - Defending League Champions Accra Hearts of Oak failed to transpose their superior performance against Accra Great Olympics in President's Special Challenge Cup last Tuesday into another victory when they were held to a one all drawn game by less fancied Stay Cool Professionals at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday in a seventh week league match. The Phobians paraded a different set in the game as the likes of Bernard Don Bortey, Emmanuel Osei, Lawrence Adjei and Kwame Antwi were absent thus taking some bite off the attack and strength from the defence.

The Stay Cool lads, who used the Accra Sports Stadium as their home ground, capitalised on the lack of coordination between Hassan Mohamed and Dan Oppong in central defence for Hearts, which resulted in free kick at the edge of the box. Veteran Asamoah Dzifa rose above the Hearts defence to head home from the free kick in the tenth minute for the first goal. Hearts responded with a series of attacks and in the 31st minute Emmanuel Osei-Kuffours' free kick was headed home by Amankwah Mireku for the equaliser to end of the first half.

Kenneth Sarpong on resumption turned a defender of Stay Cool inside out and with had only keeper Alex Agyapong to beat, surprisingly shot wide. Hearts continued mounting intense pressure on Stay Cool with Laryea Kingston, Awudu Adama, Sarpong and Massawudu Mumuni making incursions upfront but they could not find the net. At the latter stages of the game Hearts threw in everything to secure the full three points to anchor them at the top of the league table but to no avail.