{"id":422889,"date":"2017-09-27T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/27\/thomas-partey-impresses-as-chelsea-beats-atletico-madrid\/"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:30:25","slug":"thomas-partey-impresses-as-chelsea-beats-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/27\/thomas-partey-impresses-as-chelsea-beats-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey impresses as Chelsea beats Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 27 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-27<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/52823733.295.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Partey AFCON 2017 Call Up\" title=\"Thomas Partey AFCON 2017 Call Up\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Thomas Partey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1506555025_635_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey started ahead of Gabi and gave a good account of himself but his side lost 2-1 to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian lasted 77 minute with his influence clearly dwindling in the second half due to a yellow card he picked up for a foul on Morata.<\/p>\n<p>His consistency is a measure of how high he is held by hard to please manager Diego Simeoni who has clearly been sold by his hard work and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Against the run of play David Luis&#8217;s moment of madness presented Atletico with a penalty with Griezman stepping up to score the first goal of a game that had tight margins.<\/p>\n<p>But Chelsea, as they have so often done this season, stepped up the gear in the second half and with some artistic display from Hazard set up Morata for the equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Batsuhayi stepped off the bench to score with virtually the last kick of the game to give the English champions all three points on the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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