{"id":404293,"date":"2011-04-28T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:19:17","slug":"injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Boost For Sunderland As Mensah Makes Quick Injury Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"65\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28042\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return\/john-mensah-9\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28042\" title=\"Injry boost for Sunderland as Mensah makes quick injury return\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e37c36b2John-Mensah.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Sunderland defender John Mensah has made a quicker-than-expected return from injury after being out of action for two weeks because of a groin problem.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mensah was only out of action for two weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Sunderland defender John Mensah has made a quicker-than-expected return from injury after being out of action for two weeks because of a groin problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ghana captain suffered the injury during their 3-2 defeat against West Brom in the Premier League two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah was expected to miss the rest of the season because of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>But after undergoing treatment with the Sunderland medical team, the strong centre-back has returned to full fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to return before time and I thank God for his mercies upon me and my family, I have started training and I feel very sound and okay,\u201d Mensah said on his official website www.johntherock5.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hoping to fit into the team quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This means he will be available for Sunderland when they take on Fulham this weekend as they seek to finish among the top-10 in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah says he wants Sunderland to defeat Fulham as they want to finish well in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday\u2019s match against (John) Panstil\u2019s Fulham is an important game to me and I am praying to God that He will grant us victory with a clean sheet on Saturday,\u201d Mensah added.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland are currently 12<sup>th<\/sup> in the 20-team league.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e37c36b2John-Mensah.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return\/\" title=\"Injury Boost For Sunderland As Mensah Makes Quick Injury Return\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Injury Boost For Sunderland As Mensah Makes Quick Injury Return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Mensah was only out of action for two weeks Sunderland defender John Mensah has made a quicker-than-expected return from injury after being out of action for two weeks because of a groin problem. The Ghana captain suffered the injury during their 3-2 defeat against West Brom in the Premier League two weeks ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":404294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Injury Boost For Sunderland As Mensah Makes Quick Injury Return - 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\/28\/injury-boost-for-sunderland-as-mensah-makes-quick-injury-return\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Injury Boost For Sunderland As Mensah Makes Quick Injury Return - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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