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Bekoe leads scorers chart

Accra, Jan 7, Ghanadot/GNA – Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s striker, Eric Bekoe leads the scorers chart with eight goals after nine matches in the 2007/2008 Onetouch Premier League.

Bekoe, who remains the only player to have netted a hat-trick so far, is followed by Liberty Professionals hit-man, Samuel Ayew Yeboah on five goals.

James Boadu of newly promoted Kessben FC and Tema Real Sportive’s Hamza Abdulai both follow the pack on four goals each.

As many as 49 players have scored a goal each in the nine-week old championships, which has so far recorded 128 goals.

Below is the full scorers chart:

8 - Eric Bekoe (Kotoko)
5 - Sam Ayew Yeboah (Liberty Professionals)
4 - James Boadu (Kessben), Hamza Abdulai (Sportive)
3 - Kojo Asamoah (Liberty Professionals), Nicholas Coffie (Zaytuna), Ekow Benson (Tema Youth), Francis Akwafo (Asante Kotoko), Yaw Antwi, (Liberty Professionals), Abraham Annan (Heart of Lions), Paa Joe Kumah (Great Olympics), Shaibu Yakubu (Ashantigold)

2– Edward Affum (Tema Youth), Baba Iddi (Kessben), Daniel Nii Agyei, (Asante Kotoko), Felix Baffoe, Eric Amoako Agyemang and Frank Boateng (Zaytuna), Osman Sakora and Obed Owusu (Gamba All Blacks), Francis Bossman (Hearts of Oak), Ibrahim Dauda (Arsenal), Mubarak Wakaso, (Ashantigold), Raphael Okyere (Wa All Stars), Ali Lukman and Eric Owusu (Sportive), Alhassan Weah and Shilla Alhassan (RTU), Abedi Sarfo (King Faisal).

1 - Harrison Afful, Prince Anokye, Kojo Poku, Jordan Opoku and Samuel Inkoom (Asante Kotoko), Obed Ansah, Allan Shearer, Dominic Adiyah, George Yamoah and Osei Banahene (Heart of Lions), Kwame Adjagba, Peter Yakubu, Abdul Salaam Alhassan, Toufik Alolo, Kwame Asare, Mohammed Fatau and Kabiru Imoro (RTU), Daniel Addo and Ransford Osei (Kessben), Adusei Poku, Iddrisu Moro, Prince Anamang, Gafaru Nasiru, Robert Adabou and Bright Addae, (Wa All Stars), Solomon Adjei, Joel Adjei and Richard Yeboah, (Sportive), Alex Asamoah and Sumaila Nyanya (Ashantigold), Awudu Musah, Benjamin Annan, Joseph Amissah and Isaac Donkor (Hasaacas), Richard Nyanful, Ishmael Antwi and Bawa Mohammed (Gamba All Blacks), Eric Gawu, Joseph Tachie Menson and Michael Asante (Hearts of Oak), Samad Oppong, Ibrahim Basit, Edmund Owusu Peprah (King Faisal), Stephen Amankwaah and Prince Attakora Gyimah (Arsenal), George Ankamah (Zaytuna), Mustapha Essuman, Emmanuel Allan and Kofi Nti Boakye (Liberty Professionals), Emmanuel Quaye (Great Olympics)
NB: The Chart is without the scorers of the Week Three clashes; Heart of Lions – Ashantigold, Arsenal – Great Olympics as well as the Week Four clash between Ashantigold and Arsenal.

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