GPL: Huge Boost For Liberty Ahead of Hasaacas Clash

Ahead of their Ghana Premier League Week 22 clash against Sekondi Hassacas on Wednesday, Liberty Professionals have received a huge boost in their team selection as they welcome four of the five key players who missed last weekend’s game against Aduana Stars.

Skipper Samuel Sarfo, midfielder Gerald Arkson and top scorer Latif Blessing have all recovered from their injuries while midfielder anchorman Edward Ebo Mends returns from a one-game suspension following his sending off against Medeama on Match week 20.

The only notable absentee for the fame against Hasaacas will be striker Bernard Arthur who is yet to recover from a slight illness.

The return of the quartet will be huge sigh of relief for the Scientific Soccer Lads who have struggled to win games in recent times.

Liberty Professionals have recorded a win in their last six outings and are currently sitting 9th on the log with 9 matches to go.

A win over Hasaacas in midweek will be a huge morale booster as the Dansoman based side prepare for their MTN FA Cup semi final fixture with Division side Okwawu United on Sunday.

GPL: Huge Boost For Liberty Ahead of Hasaacas Clash

Liberty To Miss 5 Key Players For Aduana Clash

Liberty Professionals will go into this weekend’s Ghana Premier League Match Week 21 clash with Aduana Stars as a depleted side with as many as five first team players set to miss out.

SportsCrusader.com can confirm that, the Dansoman based side will be without their leading scorer Latif Blessing, midfield maestro Gerald Arkson as well as Skipper Samuel Sarfo, through injuries while Edward Ebo Mends and Bernard Arthur will also be missing through suspension and illness respectively.

The quintet have all been instrumental in the Scientific Soccer Lads imperious run of form in the first round of the campaign and their absence will be a big Blow to trainer George Lamptey who admitted his job is not secured following last weekend’s home defeat to Dreams FC.

In their absence, the coach is likely to maintain his trust in young defender Moro Lamine to partner veteran Maxwell Mensah in the central back role with Tamimu Muntari partnering Daniel Kodie and Kennedy Ashia in the midfield three.

Meanwhile the Liberty technical team have included striker Benjamin Eshun who is yet to fully recover from illness in the squad for the Aduana game and the former Hasaacas man is likely to partner Baba Zakari and babamu Addo in the front three.

Left back Richard Antwi will also provide Liberty with a boost in defense after missing out on the midweek clash with Medeama following his sending off in the defeat against Dreams FC last weekend.

Liberty are without a win in their last five games and a defeat against Aduana will further compound the pressure on George Lamptey and his technical team as their future with the club continues to be shrouded in doubt.

Liberty To Miss 5 Key Players For Aduana Clash

Liberty Skipper Backs New Edubiase To Stay Up

Liberty Professionals captain, Samuel Sarfo has backed New Edubiase United to move out of the relegation zone by the end of the 2015/2016 Ghana Premier League campaign. 

Despite leading the Scientific Soccer lads to a home win and an away draw against the Bekwai based side, the 25-year old defender believes that New Edubiase have what it takes to maintain their top flight status.

Speaking exclusively to SportsCrusader.com following his side’s 1-1 draw with Edubiase on match week 18 over the weekend, Sarfo said there is still time for them to move up the ladder.

“Their[New Edubiase] position on the log didn’t have an effect on the game on Sunday”, he said.

“They are in the relegation Zone buy they have chances of moving up because the league is still young and they are playing good football”,  Sarfo added.

New Edubiase have only managed just four wins and four draws in 18 matches  and are currently bottom of the league log with 16 points, 4 points adrift of safety.

With wins proven hard to come by, Coach Anthony Commey’s side will hope to deny the odds when they travel to Dormaa to play Aduana Stars on Wednesday.

Liberty Skipper Backs New Edubiase To Stay Up

FA Cup History Doesn"t Favour The Big Teams- Liberty Skipper

Ahead of his side’s MTN FA Cup quarter final clash with Division One League club Elmina Sharks, Liberty Professionals captain, Samuel Sarfo says the history of the competition doesn’t favour the big teams.

The FA since it’s reinstatement in 2011, has produced several surprises and with three second tier clubs in the last eight of this season’s edition, there is still a tendency that a surprise winner will emerge.

Having played all their previous Fixtures away from the Carle Reindorf, Liberty will host Elmina Sharks in the quarter final on Saturday and sheaf of the game, Skipper Samuel Sarfo has warned his side against complacency.

“Liberty is bigger than Elmina Sharks and we are ahead of them in terms of performance”, Sarfo told SportsCrusader.com in an exclusive interview.

“But the history of the FA Cup has not been favoring the big teams especially those who approach it with complacent attitude and underestimation.

” So for us, we have task ourselves to lift the FA Cup trophy. we hope to exhibit the best of our performance and comply to every instructions that were given to us to reach this far.

” And I think input will determine the results”, Sarfo added.

In a related development, Samuel Sarfo has expressed delight the Liberty’s top scorer in the FA Cup, Bernard Arthur has been declared fit for the quarter final tie.

“I am happy our main man, Bernard is doing great in training. He has been splendid throughout thus campaign and he will be important for us on Saturday”, the captain concluded.

FA Cup History Doesn"t Favour The Big Teams- Liberty Skipper

Liberty Skipper Targets Strong First Round Finish

Liberty Professionals captain, Samuel Sarfo has said that there is the need for his side to finish the first round of the 2015/2016 Ghana Premier League on a high.

The Ghanaian top flight league is in its half time break but the Dansoman based side have a game in hand against Medeama SC at the Carle Reindorf Park on Wednesday.

And ahead of the encounter, Sarfo, whose side have surprised many with their performances in the first round of the league says they need to finish stronger.

“We need to finish stronger” Sarfo told SportsCrusader.com.

“It is our last game of the first round and we are going to prepare and come back strongly. It is football and anything at all can happen but we have to concentrate on that particular game and comply with the coaches instruction”, he added.

Given his judgment about Liberty’s overall performance in the first round of the league, Samuel Sarfo said, “It’s been good. The entire team have been helpful to the course. Winning close to about seven games and drawing a couple of games. I think we are on course”.

Liberty are currently sitting 5^th on the league log with 24 points having recorded 7 wins, 4 defeats and 3 draws.

The Scientific Soccer lads will finish the first round of the league in second place should they beat Medeama SC on Wednesday in Dansoman.

Liberty Skipper Targets Strong First Round Finish

Liberty Eyes Four Top Finish

Captain of Liberty Professionals, Samuel Sarfo has said a top-four finish for the side this season is a realistic target.

The scientific soccer lads continued their impressive league performance with a 1-0 win over a Lackluster Hearts of Oak in their week 14 encounter at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The win moved the Danson based side up 4th on the table and captain maverick, Sarfo who had a great game has a mentioned a top 4 is the target of the season.

“You know last season wasn’t that impressive, so this season we decided to at least put in more effort and up our grade,” he told Ghana Sports Newspaper.

“At the end of the season we are looking forward in making it into the top four. We want to finish in the top four at the end of the season, and the first round is almost ending so we are taking it match after match.

“Not at all, unless we go by our own ways but if we are to comply by what our Coaches will tell us I think we can overtake any of them at the top four, We have been there before so we just have to go by what the Coaches will tell us.”

Liberty’s final game in the first round of the league is at home to bottom placed on the log,  Ebusua Dwarfs.

Liberty Eyes Four Top Finish

Liberty Skipper Hails Veteran Defender"s Impact

Liberty Professionals captain, Samuel Sarfo has praised the performances of Central defensive partner Maxwell Mensah.

Mensah, a veteran in the Ghana Premier League, has been ever present alongside the captain in Liberty’s defensive set up but will have to play with a different person this in this weekend’s tie with Aduana Stars as Sarfo has been suspended.

And speaking in an exclusive interview with SportsCrusader.com in the build-up to the that fixture, the suspended Liberty rare man expressed confidence that Maxwell Mensah will be up to the task in his absence.

“Maxwell Mensah has been my motivator all these while so I am not present, whoever will play alongside him will gel in the central back position”, the Liberty Skipper said.

“I always give credit to him because we all benefit from his experience in the Premier League and I always feel cushioned when I am playing with him”, Samuel Sarfo added.

Maxwell Mensah joined the Scientific Soccer lads at the beginning of last season having had spells with Great Olympics and Hearts of Oak in the past

Liberty Skipper Hails Veteran Defender"s Impact

Big Blow: Liberty To Miss Key Player For Aduana Clash

Liberty Professionals will miss the services of Skipper Samuel Sarfo for their Match Week 10 clash with Aduana Stars due to suspension.

The 25-year old defender has been ever present in the Scientific Soccer lads lineup thus season but will miss out on this weekend’s after receiving a third yellow card of the season in his side’s 1-0 win at Hasaacas last weekend.

The absence of Sarfo will come as a big Blow to Coach George Lamptey he looks to maintain Liberty’s home invisibility.

In the absence of their captain, the Dansoman based side will have depend on young right Back Mutawakilu Fuseini or midfielder Mubarak Yussif to partner the experience Maxwell Mensah in the center of Defence.

Meanwhile, midfielder Daniel Kodie will return to the Liberty starting line up after missing the last three games due to suspension.

The highly rated box-to-box midfielder was sent off in their 3-1 defeat to Asante Kotoko a fortnight ago and as a result, missed the Premier games against Berekum Chelsea and Hasaacas as well as the MTN FA Cup tie with second tier side Pure Joy

Big Blow: Liberty To Miss Key Player For Aduana Clash

MTN FA Cup: Liberty Professionals Set Sight On Cup Glory

After eliminating defending Champions Medeama SC in the round 64, Liberty Professionals have set their sight on clinching the ultimate as they prepare to take Division League side Pure Joy in the round of 32 of the 2015/2016 MTN FA Cup.

The Dansoman based suffered a third defeat of the season at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in a league encounter against Asante Kotoko on Sunday and will look to bounce back when they travel to the Ghanaman Soccer Center of Excellence to play Pure Joy in the FA Cup on Saturday.

And speaking in an exclusive interview with SportsCrusader.com on Monday, Skipper of the side, Samuel Sarfo says his side are not taking the FA Cup lightly.

“Our next stop is to concentrate on the next game with pure joy. We are taking that match just as we approach premier league games”, Sarfo said.

“F a cup matches are tough sometimes so we going all out with our men to fight for victory and we are playing away too so u can imagine” he added.

On whether Liberty Professionals can win the FA Cup, Sarfo said,” Most definitely”.

“That’s why we don’t have to keep our heads down after this [Asante Kotoko] defeat. We need to win at all cost to be on winnings ways till the league resumes”, the captain concluded.

MTN FA Cup: Liberty Professionals Set Sight On Cup Glory

Our Coaches Are Doing ‘Surveillance’ On Kotoko- Liberty Skipper

Liberty Professional’s inspirational captain, Samuel Sarfo has disclosed that the club’s technical team is doing a ‘Surveillance’ work on Asante Kotoko ahead of the two side’s Ghana Premier League Match Day Seven fixture at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium this weekend.

According to the officer of the Ghana Police Service his team is aware of happenings in the camp of Kotoko stating that “They have started making noise”.

Speaking exclusively to SportsCrusader.com after Tuesday morning’s training session; the 25-year old defender further stated that despite the issues surrounding the Porcupine Warriors, Liberty Professionals are solely focused on the football on the pitch.

“Our able men, coach George Lamptey and Felix Aboagye are our commanders for the tough duel so they will do the surveillance before we will know how to attack them[Asante Kotoko]”, Samuel Sarfo noted.

“Everybody has a problem but we are enduring. Expect discipline performance, Good football and new form of tactics from our coaches” he added.

On Whether or not Kotoko’s off field issues will benefit the Dansoman based side, Sarfo said, “Our concentration is just on the field nothing else. Problems or no problems the game is coming on and we are preparing for it”

Our Coaches Are Doing ‘Surveillance’ On Kotoko- Liberty Skipper

Our Coaches Are Doing ‘Surveillance’ On Kotoko- Liberty Skipper

Liberty Professional’s inspirational captain, Samuel Sarfo has disclosed that the club’s technical team is doing a ‘Surveillance’ work on Asante Kotoko ahead of the two side’s Ghana Premier League Match Day Seven fixture at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium this weekend.

According to the officer of the Ghana Police Service his team is aware of happenings in the camp of Kotoko stating that “They have started making noise”.

Speaking exclusively to SportsCrusader.com after Tuesday morning’s training session; the 25-year old defender further stated that despite the issues surrounding the Porcupine Warriors, Liberty Professionals are solely focused on the football on the pitch.

“Our able men, coach George Lamptey and Felix Aboagye are our commanders for the tough duel so they will do the surveillance before we will know how to attack them[Asante Kotoko]”, Samuel Sarfo noted.

“Everybody has a problem but we are enduring. Expect discipline performance, Good football and new form of tactics from our coaches” he added.

On Whether or not Kotoko’s off field issues will benefit the Dansoman based side, Sarfo said, “Our concentration is just on the field nothing else. Problems or no problems the game is coming on and we are preparing for it”

Our Coaches Are Doing ‘Surveillance’ On Kotoko- Liberty Skipper

Liberty Skipper Sarfo Attributes Wa Stalemate to Poor Weather Condition

Liberty Professionals captain Samuel Sarfo has attributed his side’s goal-less draw with Wa All Stars to the poor weather conditions in the Upper West Regional capital.

According to the 25-year old center half, the weather in Wa had a telling effect on the Scientific Soccer lads who only travel from Accra last Friday evening.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with SportsCrusader.com on Monday morning Sarfo, who is an officer in the Ghana Police Service  praised the performances exhibited by the Dansoman based club.

” We played very well despite Wa all stars being unbeaten in their two games. We had a bad weather and pitch but we still stood to our grounds to match them” he said.

” We went there to win but unfortunately it ended in a draw” Sarfo added.

Samuel Sarfo was however quick to admit that they are not disappointed with their inability to record a victory at the Wa Parkon Sunday.

” If you play a good side, who are comfortable on their home grounds and know the weather condition more than you and you come out with such a results, you don’t have to be disappointed”,  he said,  adding that,  ” The weather was hell. I can’t tell how many degrees though but it was very hot to the extent that our feet were burning but we didn’t let that bring us down”.

Liberty Professionals will next play newly promoted Techiman at the Carle Reindoff Park in Dansoman on Friday March 11.

Liberty Skipper Sarfo Attributes Wa Stalemate to Poor Weather Condition