{"id":436927,"date":"2011-06-06T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/aston-villas-jean-makoun-backs-team-mate-darren-bent-after-his-miss-against-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T17:07:00","slug":"aston-villas-jean-makoun-backs-team-mate-darren-bent-after-his-miss-against-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/aston-villas-jean-makoun-backs-team-mate-darren-bent-after-his-miss-against-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa&#8217;s Jean Makoun backs team-mate Darren Bent after his miss against Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Mark Fordham<\/h3>\n<h4>6 Jun 2011 18:07:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"78.2045322487\">\n<div readability=\"14.3768115942\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darren Bent &#038; Ashley Young - Inggris (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/127100\/127168_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Darren Bent &#038; Ashley Young &#8211; Inggris (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/cameroon\/762\/jean-ii-makoun\">Jean Makoun<\/a>\u00a0has backed team mate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/9730\/darren-bent\">Darren Bent<\/a> to return to goalscoring form after missing a gilt-edged chance late on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/16\/england\">England&#8217;s<\/a> 2-2 draw on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bent came in for criticism after Saturday\u2019s draw after the striker missed an open goal which would have almost certainly won the game for England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Makoun believes that Bent will put that quickly behind him and continue the excellent form he showed towards the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He told the club\u2019s official website: \u201cDarren is a quality goalscorer. He shows that every day in training and in the games he played for Villa too in the last campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was great to see him banging in goals all the time. He has so much class in front of goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe scores in training all the time and even though he\u2019s been at Villa for a short time, he\u2019s showed his class in games too and made himself a hero with the fans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bent\u2019s form has seen him catapulted as England\u2019s main striker with Wayne Rooney and Makoun feels that Bent will score plenty of goals again next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added: \u201cI am expecting another great campaign from him when the new season starts. Darren will be important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe is always in the right place at the right time in front of goal. He\u2019s a predator and a goal poacher. He can sniff out the goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat can\u2019t be taught, it\u2019s a natural talent \u2013 and Darren has it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2557\/news\/2011\/06\/06\/2520411\/aston-villas-jean-makoun-backs-team-mate-darren-bent-after\" title=\"Aston Villa's Jean Makoun backs team-mate Darren Bent after his miss against Switzerland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa&#8217;s Jean Makoun backs team-mate Darren Bent after his miss against Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Mark Fordham 6 Jun 2011 18:07:00 Darren Bent &#038; Ashley Young &#8211; Inggris (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Aston Villa midfielder Jean Makoun \u00a0has backed team mate Darren Bent to return to goalscoring form after missing a gilt-edged chance late on in England&#8217;s 2-2 draw on Saturday. Bent came in for criticism after Saturday\u2019s draw after the striker missed an open goal which would have almost certainly won the game for England. Makoun believes that Bent will put that quickly behind him and continue the excellent form he showed towards the end of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":436928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-436927","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>Aston Villa&#039;s Jean Makoun backs team-mate Darren Bent after his miss against Switzerland - 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\/06\/aston-villas-jean-makoun-backs-team-mate-darren-bent-after-his-miss-against-switzerland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Aston Villa&#039;s Jean Makoun backs team-mate Darren Bent after his miss against Switzerland - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Mark Fordham 6 Jun 2011 18:07:00 Darren Bent &amp; Ashley Young - Inggris (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Aston Villa midfielder Jean Makoun \u00a0has backed team mate Darren Bent to return to goalscoring form after missing a gilt-edged chance late on in England&#039;s 2-2 draw on Saturday. 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