Kotoko draw in Kumasi

Super champions Medeama on Sunday recovered from two goals caused by defensive blunders in each half to draw 2-2 with Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a gruelling Premier League encounter at the Baba Yara Sadium in Kumasi.

Incidentally, it was on Sunday game that both sides earned their first point. Medeama had lost their first two games against Ashgold and Accra Hearts of Oak while Kotoko lost 0-2 to WAFA in the opening game.

Medeama were punished for their penchant for giving back passes under least pressure as winger Benette Ofori chanced on one of Medeama’s blunders in the 23rd minute to a outwit goalkeeper Michael Sai to score for Kotoko.

And in the 57th minute defender Moses Sarpong's clearance in the penalty area went off the body of Kotoko's Michael Yeboah for the homesters second goal.

 But Medeama’s Malik Akowuah atoned for his earlier misses when in the 39th minute the delivered a class-act free kick while Bismark Oppong’s superb volley was at hand to earn the visitors the draw.

But drama unfolded when earlier in the game the centre referee, Prosper Andy, was replaced at the start of the second half with the fourth referee, Emmanuel Ansah, for some controversial decisions which nearly marred the beauty of the game.

Kotoko took charge of the second half with incessant attack and they could have fetched the winner with four minutes to the end of the game but Kwame Boahene's strike ricocheted off the upright and a minute later goalkeeper Ofori Antwi pulled off a dramatic save from a series of onslaughts to save Kotoko from a home defeat.