{"id":324707,"date":"2011-03-20T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/luis-suarez-punishes-sunderland%e2%80%99s-ghanaian-trio\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:09:30","slug":"luis-suarez-punishes-sunderlands-ghanaian-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/luis-suarez-punishes-sunderlands-ghanaian-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Suarez Punishes Sunderland\u2019s Ghanaian Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"70\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start -->Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/27d25442liv300.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25438\" title=\"Luis Suarez punishes Sunderland's Ghanaian trio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/27d25442liv300.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Sunderland\u2019s Sulley Muntari, John Mensah and Asamoah Gyan were hoping to punish Luis Suarez for his World Cup handball in the Premier League but the Uruguayan scored for Liverpool to win 2-0 to rub salt into the injury of the Ghanaians.\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luis Suarez of Liverpool (2ndr) celebrates his goal alongside Lucas Leiva, Dirk Kuyt and Raul Meireles during the Barclays Premier League match between Sunderland and Liverpool <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sunderland\u2019s Sulley Muntari, John Mensah and Asamoah Gyan were hoping to punish Luis Suarez for his World Cup handball in the Premier League but the Uruguayan scored for Liverpool to win 2-0\u00a0to rub salt into the injury of the Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A controversial penalty and a touch of brilliance from Luis Suarez handed Liverpool victory over Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>Despite menacing flashes of incisive intelligence from Luis Su\u00e1rez \u2013 and, yes, Uruguay\u2019s \u201chand of God\u201d World Cup striker shook hands with Sunderland\u2019s Ghana international Asamoah Gyan before kick-off \u2013 and considerable customary industry on Dirk Kuyt\u2019s part, Liverpool were initially not much better.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Cats fell behind to a Dirk Kuyt first-half penalty after John Mensah had fouled Jay Spearing.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Kevin Friend had awarded a free-kick before pointing to the spot after noting the linesman\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez doubled the lead after the break when he powered in from a tight angle before Sunderland\u2019s Mensah was shown red for pulling back Suarez.<\/p>\n<p>That was the bitter icing of a tasteless cake for Sunderland, who also lost three players during the match because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Cats will not want to look at the table either.<\/p>\n<p>Having now lost five of their last six, Steve Bruce\u2019s men may now start looking over their shoulder rather than ahead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/27d25442liv300.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/luis-suarez-punishes-sunderlands-ghanaian-trio\/\" title=\"Luis Suarez Punishes Sunderland\u2019s Ghanaian Trio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Suarez Punishes Sunderland\u2019s Ghanaian Trio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Luis Suarez of Liverpool (2ndr) celebrates his goal alongside Lucas Leiva, Dirk Kuyt and Raul Meireles during the Barclays Premier League match between Sunderland and Liverpool Sunderland\u2019s Sulley Muntari, John Mensah and Asamoah Gyan were hoping to punish Luis Suarez for his World Cup handball in the Premier League but the Uruguayan scored for Liverpool to win 2-0\u00a0to rub salt into the injury of the Ghanaians. <\/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-324707","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>Luis Suarez Punishes Sunderland\u2019s Ghanaian Trio - 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\/20\/luis-suarez-punishes-sunderlands-ghanaian-trio\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Luis Suarez Punishes Sunderland\u2019s Ghanaian Trio - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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