Wa All Stars draws with Ashanti Gold

Wa, (UW) June 8, GNA - Superstition marred the beauty of the game between Wa All Stars and visiting Obuasi Ashantigold in their Onetouch Premier League encounter at the Wa Sports Stadium on Sunday. An Ashgold player urinated on the floor leading to the dressing room and that nearly caused confusion between the team and supporters of the Wa lads who did not take kindly to the behaviour of the player. Some supporters of the homesters however poured water on the urine and swept it out before the game started. As if that was not enough, the two teams again decided to present 10 players each for the match to commence when referee Vivian Aggor from Accra blew the whistle for the proceedings to begin. The proceedings in the first half of the game saw nothing spectacular until getting to the dying minutes when Wa Stars lifted their game and created a few goal scoring chances but they chances were wasted by the attackers through erratic shooting and near misses at goal.

Back from the recess, the two teams made some changes to carry the day as the game progressed. With no goals coming their way the supporters Wa Stars decided to cheer on the players to go in for goals but the much-needed goals were not coming as the Ashgold players played it hard to tame the home lads. On the 58th minute an ugly scene occurred around the Ashgold goal area during a struggle for an aerial ball between the defenders of the visitors and Kwabena Dodzi of Wa Stars when the striker was brought down heavily.

Ashgold's goalie Fatau Dauda for no apparent reason rushed out from his post and stamped on Dodzi several times that resulted in a hold up of the game to attend to the injured player. Referee Aggor who was on the spot showed the keeper the red card but declined to award any penalty to the home team. This act of the referee caused confusion as some supporters of the home team prevented keeper Dauda from going to the dressing room. Keeper Dauda was however taken away in an ambulance for his own safety.

The game from then generated into a rough and physical one and creating ugly scenes as the home supporters had expected an incident-free and exciting match and victory for the darling club which never came their way until the final whistle.