{"id":289491,"date":"2011-03-04T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/04\/chelseas-yossi-benayoun-hoping-to-return-to-action-within-the-next-month\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:23:00","slug":"chelseas-yossi-benayoun-hoping-to-return-to-action-within-the-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/04\/chelseas-yossi-benayoun-hoping-to-return-to-action-within-the-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s Yossi Benayoun hoping to return to action within the next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Sam Bisby<\/h3>\n<h4>4 Mar 2011 16:23:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.5446530148\">\n<div readability=\"16.932038835\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yossi Benayoun in action during pre-season for Chelsea (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/72e24b51105525_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yossi Benayoun in action during pre-season for Chelsea (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"24.4519664732\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/israel\/1690\/yossi-shai-benayoun\">Yossi Benayoun<\/a> is focusing on a return to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier Leagu<\/a>e action in a month&#8217;s time as he progresses with an Achilles injury that has plagued his season at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli international suffered a torn Achilles in his third appearance for the club back in September and has been out of action ever since, with surgery and an extensive lay-off required to get the midfielder back to match fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool man&#8217;s return to light training has gone well and he may be fit enough to feature in Chelsea&#8217;s squad within the next few weeks, with an away date against Stoke next month for Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s team looking like a realistic target.<\/p>\n<p>He told the <em>Jewish Chronicle<\/em>: &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling really good and progressing  well. I hope to return to full training with Chelsea within a week or  two.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hope is to be match fit towards the end of the month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the long-term nature of the injury, the player maintained that he was confident he would be able to return when told of others who had made full recoveries from similar problems.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old added: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy to be given the verdict about the injury.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;But the moment I&#8217;d undergone the operation and the surgeon told me about  other players who had fully recovered from the same injury and returned to play,  I began to feel calmer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really believe in myself now and I&#8217;ve been running for quite a few weeks,  sometimes with the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/72e24b51105525_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/04\/2379286\/chelseas-yossi-benayoun-hoping-to-return-to-action-within\" title=\"Chelsea's Yossi Benayoun hoping to return to action within the next month\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea&#8217;s Yossi Benayoun hoping to return to action within the next month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Sam Bisby 4 Mar 2011 16:23:00 Yossi Benayoun in action during pre-season for Chelsea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Chelsea &#8216;s\u00a0 Yossi Benayoun is focusing on a return to Premier Leagu e action in a month&#8217;s time as he progresses with an Achilles injury that has plagued his season at Stamford Bridge. The Israeli international suffered a torn Achilles in his third appearance for the club back in September and has been out of action ever since, with surgery and an extensive lay-off required to get the midfielder back to match fitness<\/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-289491","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>Chelsea&#039;s Yossi Benayoun hoping to return to action within the next month - 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\/chelseas-yossi-benayoun-hoping-to-return-to-action-within-the-next-month\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea&#039;s Yossi Benayoun hoping to return to action within the next month - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Sam Bisby 4 Mar 2011 16:23:00 Yossi Benayoun in action during pre-season for Chelsea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Chelsea &#039;s\u00a0 Yossi Benayoun is focusing on a return to Premier Leagu e action in a month&#039;s time as he progresses with an Achilles injury that has plagued his season at Stamford Bridge. 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