{"id":14716,"date":"2011-12-15T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/fresh-injury-setback-for-essien-as-return-delays\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:51:42","slug":"fresh-injury-setback-for-essien-as-return-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/fresh-injury-setback-for-essien-as-return-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Injury Setback For Essien As Return Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/michael-essien-injury-return-put-back\/michael-essien-face\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101141\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Essien \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/f2726bee67a3c500c53ab118e2e9a4bf382f.124.65.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Essien will now return to action in mid-January 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas says midfielder Michael Essien is still at least a month away from returning to action after suffering a fresh setback on his knee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essien has not featured this season due to a cruciate knee ligament injury and was expected to return to action by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Villas-Boas has revealed that the Ghanaian suffered a \u201csetback\u201d in his rehabilitation at the start of December.<\/p>\n<p>He is not expected to be fit until the middle of January, a timescale that likely rules him out of the African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at mid-January, that\u2019s the best we can think about,\u201d said Villas-Boas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a setback at the beginning of December if I\u2019m not wrong which took him back 10 days and that\u2019s extended into January, so I don\u2019t think he will go to the African Cup of Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/stevanovic-vouch-for-injury-prone-john-mensah\/\" rel=\"prev\">Stevanovic Vouch For Injury-prone John Mensah<\/a><br \/>Next post: <a href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.mobi\/asamoah-gyan-foundation-launch-postponed\/\" rel=\"next\">Asamoah Gyan Foundation Launch Postponed<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Michael Essien will now return to action in mid-January 2012 Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas says midfielder Michael Essien is still at least a month away from returning to action after suffering a fresh setback on his knee. Essien has not featured this season due to a cruciate knee ligament injury and was expected to return to action by the end of this month. Villas-Boas has revealed that the Ghanaian suffered a \u201csetback\u201d in his rehabilitation at the start of December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fresh Injury Setback For Essien As Return Delays - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/fresh-injury-setback-for-essien-as-return-delays\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fresh Injury Setback For Essien As Return Delays - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Michael Essien will now return to action in mid-January 2012 Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas says midfielder Michael Essien is still at least a month away from returning to action after suffering a fresh setback on his knee. 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