Sharks hold Olympics in Accra
A resilient Elmina Sharks side yesterday battled from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Accra Great Olympics at the Accra Sports Stadium. Joseph Mensah’s equalising goal in stoppage time proved decisive and left Coach Godwin Attram and his charges stunned as they appeared clueless in the entire second half, after Abel Manomey’s brace had put Olympics in a comfortable lead in the first half.
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The Ghana Premier League (GPL) returnees looked the more determined side from the beginning of the game and mounted pressure on the visitors, forcing their backline to fumble many times, exposing the Elmina-based team’s inexperience.
Three minutes into the game, the Wonder Club profited from one of such attacks when the Sharks defence gifted the ball to Bernardinho Osah who released it to Manomey to plant the ball beyond Sharks goalkeeper Francis Arthur.
In a desperate attempt to redeem their goal, Sharks relied on long range shots but failed to find target. Intermittently, the Sharks defence was caught napping allowing Olympics’ Manomey and Douglas Opoku to ran riot.
Sharks, however, came back strongly after recess and took charge of the second half, dominating the exchanges and creating several chances but were not clinical upfront.
They were, however, not to be denied for long, as in the 55th minute, substitute Benjamin Tweneboah brought his side back into the game when he was set up by Daniel Obeng to tap home.
Another substitute, Mensah, became the hero for Sharks when he finished off a beautiful move from Tweneboah, completing with a header, late in the game to secure a point for the visitors, much to the chagrin of the Olympics’ bench.
It was indeed a game of two halves, as Olympics who called the shots in the first half, had no antidote to Sharks’ charge in the second half, with the Accra -based team lacking the grit to withstand the pressure from the debutantes emboldened, who had been by the two changes Coach Kwabena Amissah made in the second half.
