{"id":25772,"date":"2013-02-12T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T00:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/celtic-boss-worries-over-ambrose\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T00:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T00:23:41","slug":"celtic-boss-worries-over-ambrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/12\/celtic-boss-worries-over-ambrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic boss worries over Ambrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"story-featured-image c6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/8a73Efe-Ambrose-360x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bigstoryimage\" alt=\"Efe Ambrose\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featured-image-caption\">Efe Ambrose<br \/><small><em>| credits: www.dailyrecord.co.uk<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c7\">Neil Lennon is sweating over the availability of two key players ahead of the first leg of Celtic\u2019s Champions League last-16 clash against Juventus at Parkhead on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">Forward Georgios Samaras is battling to recover from a hamstring injury while defender Efe Ambrose played for Nigeria in their 1-0 African Nations Cup final win over Burkina Faso last night and will not be back in Glasgow until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">Left-back Emilio Izaguirre has recovered from a knee injury while winger James Forrest is fit again following a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">The Hoops boss said, \u201cIt is as you were with Samaras, we will make a decision on him tomorrow (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cIzaguirre trained today (Monday) and has joined the squad and Forrest is fit and Ambrose, we expect to arrive tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cWe will see what condition he is in and if he is okay, we will have him in the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cWe will give Georgios as much time as is needed. He has been doing pretty aggressive rehabilitation work and we are hopeful he will be okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\">\u201cIf not, then I have a very strong squad and we will have him fit for the second leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"display-counter\" data-source=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/wp-content\/themes\/punch\/lib\/counter.php?postid=90936&amp;server=http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efe Ambrose| credits: www.dailyrecord.co.uk Neil Lennon is sweating over the availability of two key players ahead of the first leg of Celtic\u2019s Champions League last-16 clash against Juventus at Parkhead on Tuesday. Forward Georgios Samaras is battling to recover from a hamstring injury while defender Efe Ambrose played for Nigeria in their 1-0 African Nations Cup final win over Burkina Faso last night and will not be back in Glasgow until Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}