Ghana Premier League: Didi Dramani rues missed chance to close on Medeama

Hearts of Oak’s aim to whittle down leaders, Medeaeam’s points were held back by Berekum Chelsea in week 23 of the Ghana Premier League on Sunday at the Legon Sports Stadium.

The Phobians pulled a fast one on rivals Kotoko [1-0 win] last weekend, a result that helped them close the gap on Medeama to five but the draw against Berekum Chelsea dropped them into third.

🎥Highlights: FC Samartex vs Medeama SC |0-0| #GPLhttps://t.co/3MD7wIT0Le

— Medeama SC (@MedeamaSC) February 22, 2026

Hearts of Oak sit third on league table

Head coach of Hearts of Oak, Mas Ud Didi Dramani was left disappointed after the game.

“I think that we still need to improve on our decision making in very key moments of the game [and] we had every opportunity to score a goal if not more and then we control the outcomes. We can control how we set up but we don’t control the decisions,” Didi Dramani said.

“They still loaded but we still had a lot of space to go through them right from the beginning of the game until the end of the game [and] they moved in transition but I think we still controlled the whole game.”

Hearts of Oak dropped into third with 40 points, two behind second placed GoldStars who came from a goal down to win 2-1 at Heart of Lions on Sunday. Medeama still lead the standings on 45 points despite being held to a goalless draw at Samarex.

Berekum Chelsea started poorly in current season

Berekum Chelsea, who won the Ghana Premier League in the 2010-2011 season have had a torrid time in the current campaign with the draw keeping them in 15th on the table with 27 points same as Dreams fc and All Blacks from 23 matches.

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— Medeama SC (@MedeamaSC) February 22, 2026

“I am not happy at all because that is not the reason why we came here, we came here to win but quite unfortunately we drew with them so I am not happy due to the position that we are now,” Samuel Boadu said after the game.

“We knew that Hearts of Oak have a very good technical team, the individual players are also good so I told them to be compact at the back so that they cannot penetrate.”

Asante Kotoko who suffered a 1-0 loss to rivals Hearts of Oak at home last weekend, redeemed their image at Young Apostles scoring two unanswered goals.

Ghana Premier League: Week 23 results

Saturday, February 21

Vision 3-2 Bechem United

Sunday, February 22

Nations FC 1-1 Dreams fc

Young Apostles 0-2 Kotoko

Samartex 0-0 Medeama

Aduana 0-0 Hohoe United

Heart of Lions 1-2 GoldStars

Holy Stars 1-0 All Blacks

Karela 2-0 Eleven Wonders

Hearts of Oak 0-0 Berekum Chelsea