Kotoko to face Hasaacas test in Sekondi

Kotoko registered their first league victory in this season’s league against Hasaacas in Kumasi, courtesy of Kwame Boateng’s goal.

Match facts and team news

Hasaacas

They have won 8, drawn 2 and lost 2 of the home league games played thus far. Liberty Professionals and Hearts of Oak were the only sides that defeated the hosts in Sekondi.

They are lying in the relegation zone with 28 points.

Eric Bekoe is the leading top scorer of the team with eight league goals.

Hasaacas on match day 25 slipped at Berekum against Chelsea in the midweek.

Kotoko

The Porcupine Warriors ended their winless streak in away trips in the second half of the season when they defeated Liberty Professionals 0-2 at Dansoman on match day 24.

Kotoko have won four away league games this season, lost five and drawn three in the process.

Dauda Mohammed is the leading top scorer of the team with eight league goals, while the skipper of the side Amos Frimpong has hit the back of the net on seven occasions, making him the top scoring defender in the league.

Asante Kotoko were held to a goalless draw at home by Aduana Stars in a game the Kumasi Giants had a goal disallowed. Head to head

Head to head

-Kotoko have had 82 league encounters against Sekondi Hasaacas.

-Kotoko have beaten Hasaacas on 45 occasions, which is more than half of their meetings, with Hasaacas winning 16 and 21 of them ending in draws.

-The Giants of the West defeated Kotoko in their very first league encounter in 1958 at Jackson Park in Kumasi by three (3) goals to two (2)

Head to head in only the Ghana Premier League (GPL)

-The GPL started in the 1993-94 season, but Hasaacas made their maiden Premier League appearance in the 1996-97 season.

-The Porcupine Warriors have played against the Giant of the West on 29 occasions.

-Hasaacas have won two of such meetings, with Kotoko winning 16 and drawing 11 games.  Coincidentally both wins came at the adopted home grounds of Kotoko. They first beat Kotoko away at Nkawkaw in the 1996/97 season, and they last did it in the 2006-07 season at Sunyani.

Hence Hasaacas are yet to beat Kotoko in Sekondi in the Premier League era, an infamous record that the hosts are looking forward to rewriting the story in their quest to avoid relegation.