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Amartey’s Ghana Beaten In AFCON Play-Off

Leicester City’s Daniel Amartey played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

2017-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

by Leicester City

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05 Feb, 2017

Amartey’s Ghana Beaten In AFCON Play-Off

Leicester City’s Daniel Amartey played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

Leicester City

2017-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

Amartey’s Ghana Beaten In AFCON Play-Off

Leicester City’s Daniel Amartey played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

Leicester City

2017-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

Amartey’s Ghana Beaten In AFCON Play-Off

Leicester City’s Daniel Amartey played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

Leicester City

2017-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

Amartey’s Ghana Beaten In AFCON Play-Off

Leicester City’s Daniel Amartey played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

Leicester City

2017-02-05T09:00:00.000Z

- Daniel Amartey played the full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso

- The Leicester City man has been a reliable figure for Avram Grant's men at the Africa Cup of Nations

- The Black Stars finish in fourth-place in Gabon on the back of the play-off loss on Saturday

- Alain Traore scored a brilliant free-kick from 20 yards out with just one minute of time remaining

Leicester City’s played another full 90 minutes as Ghana suffered a late 1-0 defeat to Burkina Faso in the third-place play-off of the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night.

The Foxes midfielder, utilised in defence for the Black Stars this winter, has been ever-present at AFCON but was unable to prevent Alain Traore’s 89th minute free-kick from securing victory for Burkina Faso this weekend.

Ghana, managed by former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, subsequently finished fourth in Gabon for the third time in the previous four tournaments following a , who meet Egypt in the final on Sunday evening.

Grant’s men were given little time to score an equaliser after Traore’s brilliant late effort, hammered in from the right of the 18-yard box, but Amartey has impressed many this month and will return to England later this week.

The 22-year-old could be in contention for City ahead of the Premier League clash with Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday 12 February before the UEFA Champions League last-16 trip to Sevilla on Wednesday 22 February (7.45pm kick-off).

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