{"id":435691,"date":"2011-06-04T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/04\/no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T00:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:14:20","slug":"no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/04\/no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien\/","title":{"rendered":"No Injury Concerns For Michael Essien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Agyeman Aberebese<\/strong><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-30622\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien\/img_6646\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30622\" title=\"Michael Essien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6646-1023x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Essien goes to the turf after a tackle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Ghana team doctors have confirmed to GHANAsoccernet.com Michael Essien did not pick up an injury during Friday\u2019s Nations Cup qualifier against Congo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head coach Goran Stevanovic pulled out the midfield powerhouse on 73 minutes for Derek Boateng, a situation which rarely happens to him at club and country.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheslea ace had packed ice around his right knee after the match and it was speculated that he had aggravated and old injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pack of ice on his knee is nothing serious and just a routine procedure. I can say he\u2019s fit for the next game,\u201d A source told GHANAsoccernet.com<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was making a return to the Black Stars after an injury-induced one-year retirement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien\/\" title=\"No Injury Concerns For Michael Essien\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Injury Concerns For Michael Essien<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. By Agyeman Aberebese Michael Essien goes to the turf after a tackle The Ghana team doctors have confirmed to GHANAsoccernet.com Michael Essien did not pick up an injury during Friday\u2019s Nations Cup qualifier against Congo. Head coach Goran Stevanovic pulled out the midfield powerhouse on 73 minutes for Derek Boateng, a situation which rarely happens to him at club and country. <\/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-435691","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>No Injury Concerns For Michael Essien - 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\/06\/04\/no-injury-concerns-for-michael-essien\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Injury Concerns For Michael Essien - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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