{"id":417813,"date":"2011-05-05T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/05\/arsenal-defender-thomas-vermaelen-gets-green-light-to-make-shock-comeback-against-stoke-city-report\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T07:05:00","slug":"arsenal-defender-thomas-vermaelen-gets-green-light-to-make-shock-comeback-against-stoke-city-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/05\/arsenal-defender-thomas-vermaelen-gets-green-light-to-make-shock-comeback-against-stoke-city-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen gets green light to make shock comeback against Stoke City &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>5 May 2011 08:05:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.4110929853\">\n<div readability=\"14.347826087\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/108800\/108862_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"15.9176728869\"><em>For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2559\/rumours\/archive\/1\">here<\/a>.<\/em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal\"><br \/>Arsenal<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/belgium\/7710\/thomas-vermaelen\">Thomas Vermaelen<\/a> has reportedly been given the green light to make a return in the game against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/717\/stoke-city\">Stoke City<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old picked up an Achilles injury whilst on international duty with Belgium last year, and has not been able to feature for the Gunners since August.<\/p>\n<p>But now the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reports that the former Ajax man will be allowed to make his comeback when Arsene Wenger&#8217;s men play the Potters at the Britannia Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Vermaelen recently came through 90 minutes for Arsenal reserves in a game against Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are nearly out of the title race mathematically, as they are six points behind league leaders United with three games to go.<\/p>\n<p>Vermaelen is rated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castrolfootball.com\/\">Castrol EDGE Rankings<\/a> as the 1717th best player currently plying his trade in one of the top five leagues in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/05\/2472181\/arsenal-defender-thomas-vermaelen-gets-green-light-to-make-shock-\" title=\"Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen gets green light to make shock comeback against Stoke City - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen gets green light to make shock comeback against Stoke City &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 5 May 2011 08:05:00 Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has reportedly been given the green light to make a return in the game against Stoke City on Sunday. The 25-year-old picked up an Achilles injury whilst on international duty with Belgium last year, and has not been able to feature for the Gunners since August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417813","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>Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen gets green light to make shock comeback against Stoke City - report - 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\/05\/05\/arsenal-defender-thomas-vermaelen-gets-green-light-to-make-shock-comeback-against-stoke-city-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen gets green light to make shock comeback against Stoke City - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"5 May 2011 08:05:00 Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . 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