{"id":288923,"date":"2011-03-04T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/04\/sunderland%e2%80%99s-lone-wolf-asamoah-gyan-relishing-role-upfront\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:39:58","slug":"sunderlands-lone-wolf-asamoah-gyan-relishing-role-upfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/04\/sunderlands-lone-wolf-asamoah-gyan-relishing-role-upfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland\u2019s Lone Wolf Asamoah Gyan Relishing Role Upfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Sunderland coach Steve Bruce has praised Asamoah Gyan as the Ghanaian adapts to life as Sunderland\u2019s lone frontman.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce believes Gyan can shoulder the burden of playing up front on his own for Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian international has been deployed as a lone striker of late following the departure of Darren Bent and with Danny Welbeck and Fraizer Campbell still out with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland\u2019s \u00a313m record signing has potted 10 goals so far this season and has helped to lay on a number of strikes for others.<\/p>\n<p>And Bruce, who brought Gyan to the club from Rennes in the summer, believes the frontman is ideally suited to his current lone role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he enjoys it because he\u2019s played there all his life \u2013 with his national team, with Rennes and with Udinese before that,\u201d Bruce said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not unaccustomed to it and I believe he\u2019s played very, very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.peacefmonline.com\/soccer\/201103\/140833.php\" title=\"Sunderland\u2019s Lone Wolf Asamoah Gyan Relishing Role Upfront\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland\u2019s Lone Wolf Asamoah Gyan Relishing Role Upfront<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sunderland coach Steve Bruce has praised Asamoah Gyan as the Ghanaian adapts to life as Sunderland\u2019s lone frontman. Bruce believes Gyan can shoulder the burden of playing up front on his own for Sunderland. The Ghanaian international has been deployed as a lone striker of late following the departure of Darren Bent and with Danny Welbeck and Fraizer Campbell still out with injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288923","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>Sunderland\u2019s Lone Wolf Asamoah Gyan Relishing Role Upfront - 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\/03\/04\/sunderlands-lone-wolf-asamoah-gyan-relishing-role-upfront\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sunderland\u2019s Lone Wolf Asamoah Gyan Relishing Role Upfront - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sunderland coach Steve Bruce has praised Asamoah Gyan as the Ghanaian adapts to life as Sunderland\u2019s lone frontman. 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