{"id":198926,"date":"2014-06-23T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2014-world-cup-christian-atsu-predicts-win-over-portugal\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:01:00","slug":"2014-world-cup-christian-atsu-predicts-win-over-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/06\/23\/2014-world-cup-christian-atsu-predicts-win-over-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 World Cup: Christian Atsu Predicts Win Over Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0754310065509_154974.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Ghana winger Christian Atsu has vowed to put an end to Portugal\u2019s World Cup campaign when the two sides meet on Thursday in a crucial Group G decider.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will have to beat Portugal handsomely and hope that Germany beat the USA or Jurgen Klinsmann\u2019s side win by a high margin.<\/p>\n<p>Atsu knows much about Portuguese after spending three years in the country and played for FC Porto and Rio Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been impressive so far and believes the Black Stars are determined to put Portugal to the sword.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have given it our all and I am very certain we will beat Portugal,\u201d the Chelsea man said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game won\u2019t be easy since we all have a genuine chance but we are confident in ourselves and will win.<\/p>\n<p>Atsu is also aware the Black Stars could be knocked out if they lose to Portugal in Brasilia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn football everything is possible but we believe we will go through, it\u2019s unfortunate that we find ourselves in such a position and it\u2019s the reality but we will sail through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana winger Christian Atsu has vowed to put an end to Portugal\u2019s World Cup campaign when the two sides meet on Thursday in a crucial Group G decider.The Black Stars will have &#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-198926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}