Marked for Abdul Mohammed
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.22 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Albert Ayew falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match5 Dec 2026
WAFA made Hasaacas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match7 Nov 2026
Hasaacas cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Albert Ayew’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Amoah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hasaacas, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad9 Nov 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Kamaldeen Boateng has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Kamaldeen Boateng takes the afternoon — 8.42
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kamaldeen Boateng provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Benjamin Twum: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nana Amoah is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hasaacas and Asante Kotoko, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Joseph Kudus at 21 — 7.86
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joseph Kudus did not need any: 7.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kwadwo Kyereh is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Albert Ayew falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Sep 2026
The goal that put Aduana Stars ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Hasaacas equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Aduana Stars leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andre Asante in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nana Djiku
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Nana Bukari
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Hasaacas were going nowhere until he came on.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Emmanuel Igwe out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter Allies will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marclei was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Inter Allies training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mark Ugboh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thomas Schlupp was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.