{"id":324710,"date":"2011-03-20T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/john-mensah-shown-red-card-in-liverpool-sunderland-clash\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:56:35","slug":"john-mensah-shown-red-card-in-liverpool-sunderland-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/john-mensah-shown-red-card-in-liverpool-sunderland-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mensah Shown Red Card In Liverpool-sunderland Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"61\">\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=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/504df82eMensah-007.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25434\" title=\"John Mensah shown red card in Liverpool-Sunderland clash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/504df82eMensah-007.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana captain John Mensah was sent off on Sunday when his side Sunderland were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool in the English Premier League on Sunday.\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Television replays show that John Mensah did nto bring down Spearing in the box<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana captain John Mensah was sent off on Sunday when his side Sunderland were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool in the English Premier League on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Kuyt scored a controversial penalty as Liverpool bounced back from their Europa League exit with a 2-0 win at 10-man Sunderland on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Dalglish\u2019s side enjoyed their own moment of good fortune at the Stadium of Light this time as Kuyt netted a first half penalty awarded for a tackle by John Mensah that took place outside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Replays showed Mensah\u2019s challenge made contact with Jay Spearing before the midfielder fell in the area and referee Kevin Friend initially gave a free-kick, only to change his decision to a penalty on the advice of a linesman.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland were furious and Kuyt rubbed salt into their wounds as he drove home the spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Suarez scored Liverpool\u2019s second goal from what seemed an impossibly tight angle in the 77th minute to help erase the memory of his team\u2019s lacklustre midweek defeat against Braga in the Europa League and lift the Reds within four points of fifth placed Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah\u2019s miserable day was completed when the Ghana defender was sent off for a professional foul on Suarez in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah\u2019s miserable day was completed when the Ghana defender was sent off for a professional foul on Suarez in the closing stages.<\/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\/504df82eMensah-007.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/03\/john-mensah-shown-red-card-in-liverpool-sunderland-clash\/\" title=\"John Mensah Shown Red Card In Liverpool-sunderland Clash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Mensah Shown Red Card In Liverpool-sunderland Clash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Television replays show that John Mensah did nto bring down Spearing in the box Ghana captain John Mensah was sent off on Sunday when his side Sunderland were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool in the English Premier League on Sunday<\/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-324710","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>John Mensah Shown Red Card In Liverpool-sunderland Clash - 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\/john-mensah-shown-red-card-in-liverpool-sunderland-clash\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"John Mensah Shown Red Card In Liverpool-sunderland Clash - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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