Benard Don Bortey joint goal king in last year's premier league saved Hearts blushes deep into injury time with a penalty to earn them a draw in the season's opening match against Liberty Professionals at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.

In a match which saw both teams dominating a half each, it was the Phobians who kicked off and controlled the first half, especially the early exchanges, as Emmanuel Osei Kuffour created some space in the Liberty box before laying the pass to Joe Ansah who shot wide off the mark in the second minute.

After the early Hearts scare both teams settled into their strides with action concentrated in midfield with little goal mouth activities.

Liberty's first chance came in the 13th minute but James Nanor rose to the occasion to push an Asamoah Gyan effort to touch.
The Dansoman lads who are gradually becoming the boggy team of the Phobians took the lead against the trend of play when Gyan, who terrorised the Hearts defence all day, capitalised on a blunder by Dan Quaye to coolly slot the ball between the legs of advancing Nanor for the opening goal in the 18th minute.
After going down, Hearts doubled their efforts to pull even but found the going tough against a well drilled Liberty back line marshalled around Moses Abban.
Liberty were forced to make the first substitution in the 42nd minute when injured goalkeeper Kotei Blankson had to make way for Cudjoe Addo.
The youthful Liberty lads who were very quick on the break nearly doubled their lead deep into first half of injury time, as Samuel Hansen forced another save from Nanor.
In the second half, Hearts made two quick substitutions as Edmund Copson and Kwame Antwi made way for Frank Turkson and Kwabena Boafo but the change did not yield the desired effect as Liberty dominated the half.
In the 64th minute, Nanor brought the stadium unto its feet when he stretched to push to touch Gyan's goal bound effort from the edge of the box to keep Hearts in the game.
With 20 minutes remaining, Hearts Wisdom Abbey had all the chances in the world to bring his team level as he shot wide with only goalkeeper Addo to beat.
He was immediately pulled out for Awudu Amada. Liberty's dominance continued but they failed to do the most important thing as they wasted chance after chance.
With the game drawing to a close Liberty lost concentration and were almost punished in the 90th minute but Adama could not keep his cool in front of goal and shot wide off the mark.
Liberty did not heed to the warning and were made to pay for it deep into injury time when Sammy Addo used the hand to stop a goal bound shot on the goal line and Referee Atsatsa from Tema awarded a penalty kick and showed Addo the exit.
Bortey stepped up to score the resultant penalty, three minutes into added time.