Soccer News of Thursday, 30 January 2003
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Zone 3B
Heart of lions 3 Khalid 2
Home stars 0 Delorm 0
MARINERS 2 VOLTA WORIOUS 0
STAY COOL 2 VORADEP 0
Kpando Heart of Lions managed to beat Khalid FC 3-2 in their sixth week Division One League match played at the Accra Sports Stadium on Thursday.
The Kpando boys scored the first two goals in the first quarter of the match. In the first, Lawson N'bueke was brought down in the 13th minute and Isaac Oduro converted beautifully. In the 15th minute Sam Yeboah raced into the defence of Khalid and delivered a deep cross into the defence for Benjamin Dziwornu to head into the net for the second goal.
Joe Debrah of Khalid reduced the tally in the 26th minute by connecting a cross from Abdul Fatau. Debrah's long range shot in the 40th minute fetched the equaliser for Khalid.
Heart of Lions came back strongly in the second half and snatched the match winner in the 55th minute through N'bueke who pounced on the ball in front of the Khalid defence, beat keeper Mustapha Anagba before placing it in an empty net.
Khalid tried on some occasions to level up, while Lions also missed some few chances to increase the tally but both sides failed to make any impact till the end of 90 minutes.