{"id":439131,"date":"2011-06-10T06:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T06:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/10\/michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T06:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T06:08:57","slug":"michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/10\/michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien Says Chelsea Players Know Each Other Too Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"53.5\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\"><strong\/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31302\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well\/britain-soccer-premier-league-6\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31302\" title=\"Michael Essien says Chelsea players know each other too well\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ess1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Essien says Chelsea's players are so attuned to each other this season they are virtually telepathic!\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Essien says Chelsea&#8217;s players are so attuned to each other this season<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Michael Essien says Chelsea\u2019s players are so attuned to each other this season they are virtually telepathic!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Blues have won five out of five league games so far this campaign, scoring 21 goals, and head for Manchester City on Saturday already top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Now Essien has revealed the secret of their success \u2013 the fact that Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side have spooky powers to know what each other are thinking!<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder said: \u201cWe have known each other a long time an we know what the other players are thinking \u2013 that\u2019s a great thing for us and it shows on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings come natural to us, we don\u2019t have to think about it. When one of us has the ball\u00a0he knows exactly what his team-mates are going to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe defend together, we attack together \u2013 that\u2019s teamwork. It\u2019s good for us that we have kept the same players because we\u2019re used to each other now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/06\/michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well\/\" title=\"Michael Essien Says Chelsea Players Know Each Other Too Well\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Essien Says Chelsea Players Know Each Other Too Well<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Essien says Chelsea&#8217;s players are so attuned to each other this season Michael Essien says Chelsea\u2019s players are so attuned to each other this season they are virtually telepathic! The Blues have won five out of five league games so far this campaign, scoring 21 goals, and head for Manchester City on Saturday already top of the table. Now Essien has revealed the secret of their success \u2013 the fact that Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s side have spooky powers to know what each other are thinking! The midfielder said: \u201cWe have known each other a long time an we know what the other players are thinking \u2013 that\u2019s a great thing for us and it shows on the pitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Essien Says Chelsea Players Know Each Other Too Well - 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\/10\/michael-essien-says-chelsea-players-know-each-other-too-well\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Essien Says Chelsea Players Know Each Other Too Well - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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