{"id":443965,"date":"2017-12-05T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/05\/essien-tips-germany-to-win-2018-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:30:32","slug":"essien-tips-germany-to-win-2018-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/05\/essien-tips-germany-to-win-2018-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Essien tips Germany to win 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37879932.295.jpg\" alt=\"Germany World Cup  \" title=\"Germany World Cup  \" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512495032_783_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia next year.<\/p>\n<p>Essien, who represented Ghana at the 2006 and 2014 FIFA World Cup tournaments, believes the Germans\u2019 knack for showing up in big tournaments tilts the scale in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ll go for Germany. They are quite good when it comes to tournaments. They won the last one and they have the players to do it again,\u201d Essien said.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-time world champions are housed in Group F with Mexico, Sweden and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia next year. Essien, who represented Ghana at the 2006 and 2014 FIFA World Cup tournaments, believes the Germans\u2019 knack for showing up in big tournaments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":443966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Essien tips Germany to win 2018 World Cup - 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\/2017\/12\/05\/essien-tips-germany-to-win-2018-world-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Essien tips Germany to win 2018 World Cup - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has tipped reigning world champions Germany to retain their title in Russia next year. 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