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Hearts subdue Danbort

Hearts of Oak eased into the MTN/FA Cup Round of 32 stage after drubbing Danbort FC 2-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday.

A goal in each half was enough to see Danbort  – the 2017 quarter-finalists– who were playing home, packing out of the campaign.

Though Hearts had accounted for Danbort in two previous outings in the competition – with one needing a Vincent Atingah penalty to scrape through – yesterday’s victory was probably a trouble-free and almost effortless adventure as the Nungua division one side manifestly lacked the needed bite upfront.

And, with a blundering specimen of a goalkeeper, the home team were always going to suffer.

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Danbort started the afternoon on an imposing fashion, especially in midfield and nearly stole the lead as early as the second minute but Jonathan Sowah’s effort sailed just wide.

Parading a burly squad, Hearts later took control of the card-free afternoon and grabbed the initiative in the 26th minute through Frederick Ansah Botchway who unleashed a fierce grounder past goalkeeper Richard Marfo Addea – after a poor Danbort clearance.

Botchway nearly doubled the advantage four minutes later but was denied by Addea’s stunning finger-tip save to draw prolong applause from the decent crowd that turned out for fine game.

Danbort resumed the second stanza – just the same way they started – but soon lost dominance to Hearts who never looked back until the result was sealed in the 63rd minute by Joseph Esso. The star Hearts’ finisher chased a gratuitous back-pass meant for goalkeeper Addea and just when everybody thought he was going to tidy up, he miscued – for Esso to poke it in.

That heart-throbbing second goal sniffed out all the fight in Danbort for a possible comeback.

BY JOHN VIGAH

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