{"id":365695,"date":"2011-04-04T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/tottenham%e2%80%99s-steven-pienaar-confirms-he-is-out-of-champions-league-clash-against-real-madrid-with-groin-injury\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T07:12:00","slug":"tottenhams-steven-pienaar-confirms-he-is-out-of-champions-league-clash-against-real-madrid-with-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/tottenhams-steven-pienaar-confirms-he-is-out-of-champions-league-clash-against-real-madrid-with-groin-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s Steven Pienaar confirms he is out of Champions League clash against Real Madrid with groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Richard Parry<\/h3>\n<h4>4 Apr 2011 08:12:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.197397563677\">\n<div readability=\"15.691176470588\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Steven Pienaar -  Martin Petrov, Tottenham v Bolton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6df728e0125838_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL : Steven Pienaar &#8211;  Martin Petrov, Tottenham v Bolton<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"31.000624609619\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/south-africa\/4147\/steven-pienaar\">Steven Pienaar<\/a> has admitted defeat in his bid to recover from a groin strain in time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\">Champions League<\/a> quarter-final clash with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/124\/real-madrid\">Real Madrid<\/a> in the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>With Spurs already sweating over the fitness of Gareth Bale, the South African \u2013 who started both ties against AC Milan in the previous round \u2013 was the most likely to deputise for the Welshman should his hamstring injury rule him out of Tuesday\u2019s showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Pienaar has struggled with the niggling injury since his move from Everton in January, but having announced that he had overcome his recent setback, the former Toffees man confirmed via his official Twitter account that his injury had flared up again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m Out for the Madrid game. Groin still not right,\u201d Pienaar revealed.<\/p>\n<p>His withdrawal comes eight years after the South African\u2019s last escapade in the competition, in which his Ajax side were defeated by AC Milan in the quarter-finals, and speaking to Tottenham\u2019s official website, Pienaar admitted that he was looking forward to the prospect of advancing further in the competition this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Ajax were a few seconds away from the semi-final,\u201d said Pienaar. \u201cIt was heartbreaking for us at the time but hopefully now I can go one step further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a very young team full of potential at Ajax but we lost against the best team at that time &#8211; AC Milan went on to win the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was sad but as I said, hopefully I&#8217;ll go one step further with Spurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6df728e0125838_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/04\/04\/2425326\/tottenhams-steven-pienaar-confirms-he-is-out-of-champions-league-\" title=\"Tottenham\u2019s Steven Pienaar confirms he is out of Champions League clash against Real Madrid with groin injury\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham\u2019s Steven Pienaar confirms he is out of Champions League clash against Real Madrid with groin injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Richard Parry 4 Apr 2011 08:12:00 EPL : Steven Pienaar &#8211; Martin Petrov, Tottenham v Bolton Related Links Teams Players Steven Pienaar has admitted defeat in his bid to recover from a groin strain in time for Tottenham \u2019s Champions League quarter-final clash with Real Madrid in the Bernabeu. With Spurs already sweating over the fitness of Gareth Bale, the South African \u2013 who started both ties against AC Milan in the previous round \u2013 was the most likely to deputise for the Welshman should his hamstring injury rule him out of Tuesday\u2019s showdown. Pienaar has struggled with the niggling injury since his move from Everton in January, but having announced that he had overcome his recent setback, the former Toffees man confirmed via his official Twitter account that his injury had flared up again<\/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-365695","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>Tottenham\u2019s Steven Pienaar confirms he is out of Champions League clash against Real Madrid with groin injury - 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\/04\/04\/tottenhams-steven-pienaar-confirms-he-is-out-of-champions-league-clash-against-real-madrid-with-groin-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tottenham\u2019s Steven Pienaar confirms he is out of Champions League clash against Real Madrid with groin injury - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Richard Parry 4 Apr 2011 08:12:00 EPL : Steven Pienaar - Martin Petrov, Tottenham v Bolton Related Links Teams Players Steven Pienaar has admitted defeat in his bid to recover from a groin strain in time for Tottenham \u2019s Champions League quarter-final clash with Real Madrid in the Bernabeu. 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