{"id":401796,"date":"2011-04-27T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/raul-meireles-hails-recent-performances-of-fantastic-liverpool-team-mate-jay-spearing\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:35:00","slug":"raul-meireles-hails-recent-performances-of-fantastic-liverpool-team-mate-jay-spearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/raul-meireles-hails-recent-performances-of-fantastic-liverpool-team-mate-jay-spearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul Meireles hails recent performances of &#8216;fantastic&#8217; Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>27 Apr 2011 12:35:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"57.3622119816\">\n<div readability=\"13.7351351351\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jay Spearing,Liverpool(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7ee76616117170_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jay Spearing,Liverpool(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"18.1599479844\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/portugal\/5388\/ra%C3%BAl-meireles\">Raul Meireles<\/a> has lavished praise on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/98\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a> team-mate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/18612\/jay-spearing\">Jay Spearing<\/a> for cementing his place in midfield recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds lost skipper Steven Gerrard for the remainder of the season due to injury, and the youngster has been filling in for the captain since.<\/p>\n<p>And having put in strong performances for Kenny Dalglish&#8217;s side, the Portuguese midfielder has maintained that the 22-year-old deserves his place in the side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jay is a fantastic player and a fantastic team-mate,&#8221; Meireles told the club&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has worked hard in training, he deserves his chance and he is doing well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a good lad off the pitch as well and I am pleased for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s good seeing some of the young lads getting a chance and for the future of the club it&#8217;s important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7ee76616117170_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/27\/2460354\/raul-meireles-hails-recent-performances-of-fantastic\" title=\"Raul Meireles hails recent performances of 'fantastic' Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raul Meireles hails recent performances of &#8216;fantastic&#8217; Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 27 Apr 2011 12:35:00 Jay Spearing,Liverpool(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Raul Meireles has lavished praise on Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing for cementing his place in midfield recently. The Reds lost skipper Steven Gerrard for the remainder of the season due to injury, and the youngster has been filling in for the captain since<\/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-401796","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>Raul Meireles hails recent performances of &#039;fantastic&#039; Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing - 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\/27\/raul-meireles-hails-recent-performances-of-fantastic-liverpool-team-mate-jay-spearing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Raul Meireles hails recent performances of &#039;fantastic&#039; Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 27 Apr 2011 12:35:00 Jay Spearing,Liverpool(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Raul Meireles has lavished praise on Liverpool team-mate Jay Spearing for cementing his place in midfield recently. 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