{"id":29566,"date":"2013-02-20T01:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T01:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/atsu-excells-in-portos-champions-league-win-over-malaga\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T01:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T01:22:03","slug":"atsu-excells-in-portos-champions-league-win-over-malaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/20\/atsu-excells-in-portos-champions-league-win-over-malaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Atsu Excells In Porto\u2019s Champions League Win Over Malaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Wednesday, 20th February 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"55\">\n<div id=\"attachment_213371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213371\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/27e7ian-Atsu-appears-to-have-found-his-spark-again.jpg\" alt=\"Atsu excells in Porto's Champions League win over Malaga\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Atsu appears to have found his spark again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By Ameenu Shardow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christain Atsu came on as a second half substitute to put in a solid display in FC Porto\u2019s 1-0 win over Malaga in the UEFA Champions League game on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ghana international excelled after coming on in the 70<sup>th<\/sup> minute to replace Russian midfielder Marat Izmailov.<\/p>\n<p>Atsu proved a constant threat and a tormenter in chief down the left flank for Porto throughout his over 20-minute spell in the game.<\/p>\n<p>His sleek movement and dazzling skills terrorized the defence of the talented Spanish team and earned him an impressive 6.3 out of 10 rating by UEFA match assessors.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was a pale shadow of himself during the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations despite scoring a goal.<\/p>\n<p>He however seems to have found himself again upon his return to club action where he has since scored his debut goal for the Portuguese champions.<\/p>\n<p>Porto would however feel hard done by their inability to turn their enormous possession at the Dragao into a goal fest.<\/p>\n<p>They nevertheless carry a one-goal advantage into the second leg but have the odds stuck against them per the dynamics of European football and Malaga\u2019s impressive home form.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Wednesday, 20th February 2013 Christian Atsu appears to have found his spark again By Ameenu Shardow Christain Atsu came on as a second half substitute to put in a solid display in FC Porto\u2019s 1-0 win over Malaga in the UEFA Champions League game on 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-29566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566","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=29566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}