On Wednesday afternoon at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, the defending BetPawa Premier League champions, will take on Berekum Chelsea.
Kumasi Asante Kotoko, the defending champions, are desperate for three points after a 2-1 loss to Real Tamale United in Match Week 8 at the Aliu Mahama stadium.
Asante Kotoko has failed to win their most recent games, a 1-1 draw against Legon Cities and a 2-1 defeat to Real Tamale United, and is currently fifth in the league standings with 14 points.
In their last five Premier League games under coach Seydou Zerbo, the Porcupine Warriors have managed two wins, two losses, and one draw.
Berekum Chelsea, the former Ghana Premier League champions, are in 9th place on the log with 12 points and have won just once in their last five games, losing two and drawing two.
The astute editors at www.atspo.com have compiled the last five visits of Berekum Chelsea to the Baba Yara Sports Stadium because games between these teams have historically been close.
A week 8 Ghana Premier League match between Asante Kotoko and Berekum Chelsea ended in a 1-1 draw on April 18, 2018, with Latif Salifu scoring for the visitors at the 45-minute mark and Frederick Boateng, known as Obinim Sticker, levelling the score to end the game.
Emmanuel Gyamfi, now with Aduana Stars, and Abdul Safiu Fatawu, now with FC Trollhättan in the Swedish Premier League, scored a goal and a penalty on April 24, 2019, in a Normalization Committee Special Competition, to secure a two-goal deficit against Berekum Chelsea.
On the third week of the league season, on January 12, 2020, even though the league was called off due to the pandemic, COVID-19, Berekum Chelsea’s forward Kofi Owusu scored in the 5th minute at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, and Kumasi Asante Kotoko failed to level the score.
A police officer shot a Kotoko fan in the eye after this match, according to the highly esteemed team of editors at www.atspo.com, because fans had gathered on the stadium’s forecourt and were demonstrating against the referee at the time.
Francis Andy Kumi and Godfred Asmah scored in the 29th and 90+4 minutes, respectively, to give Asante Kotoko a two-goal lead over Berekum Chelsea in a match in week 19 of the Ghana Premier League on the 11th of April 2021.
The most recent visit by Berekum Chelsea was on May 22, 2022, when Kelvin Obeng scored in the 80th minute to hand over a maximum of three points to Berekum Chelsea. It was a 30th-week fixture, and Kotoko under Dr. Ogum were the champions with two games to be played.
