{"id":1113790,"date":"2022-06-07T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/we-did-everything-possible-to-play-champions-league-but\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:26:41","slug":"we-did-everything-possible-to-play-champions-league-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/we-did-everything-possible-to-play-champions-league-but\/","title":{"rendered":"We did everything possible to play Champions League but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"870\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-10-22-at-20.41.57-696x870.jpeg\"   alt=\"Thomas Partey\" title=\"Thomas Partey\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Partey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, has said\u00a0the team did their best to ensure they play Champions League football in the 2022\/23 season but it just wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners were\u00a0hoping to\u00a0return to Champions League football for the first time in six years but the north London side\u00a0finished fifth with their rivals,\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur finishing 4th on the Premier League log.<\/p>\n<p>According to the midfielder,\u00a0despite missing out on their target, they still need to keep pushing until they achieve it in the season to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have lots of hope in them, they did their best and everybody fought till the end and at the end, it\u2019s football it does happen. We qualified for the World Cup without the Africa Cup and in the end, you\u2019ll never know what will happen. So we have to be grateful, keep working and whatever we want to achieve, we will,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After struggling in his maiden season, the player showed glimpses of his quality in the 2021\/22 campaign and says he will keep fighting to get better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say personal achievements, I have to be able to go further. I don\u2019t know what can happen in the season so I go match by match, day by day, and in the end, whatever will happen, I\u2019m grateful, I\u2019m happy and I\u2019ll keep on pushing until everything is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partey missed out on Black Stars\u2019 opening games of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers against Madagascar and the Central African Republic [CAR] due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6I32A9tt7Ek\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obra on Adom TV (7-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I32A9tt7Ek?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Partey Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, has said\u00a0the team did their best to ensure they play Champions League football in the 2022\/23 season but it just wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u00a0 The Gunners were\u00a0hoping to\u00a0return to Champions League football for the first time in six years but the north London side\u00a0finished fifth with their rivals,\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[774,674,463],"class_list":["post-1113790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions","tag-league","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}