{"id":1252966,"date":"2022-11-17T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/world-cup-2022-senegal-forward-sadio-mane-ruled-out-with-leg-injury\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:59:43","slug":"world-cup-2022-senegal-forward-sadio-mane-ruled-out-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/world-cup-2022-senegal-forward-sadio-mane-ruled-out-with-leg-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2022: Senegal forward Sadio Mane ruled out with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/127672890_sadiomaneinjury-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Sadio Mane\" title=\"Sadio Mane\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadio Mane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senegal forward Sadio Mane has been ruled out of the World Cup as he requires surgery on a knee injury he sustained playing for Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Senegal\u2019s football federation said Mane, 30, would miss their \u201cfirst games\u201d at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But a further MRI scan was completed on Thursday that showed surgical intervention is needed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mane was forced off during Bayern\u2019s Bundesliga win over Werder Bremen on 8 November.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal start their World Cup campaign against the Netherlands on Monday. The West Africans are in Group A with games against hosts Qatar (25 November) and Ecuador (29 November) to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time African Footballer of the Year Mane is Senegal\u2019s talisman, having scored the winning penalty when the Teranga Lions\u00a0became continental champions\u00a0for the first time in February, defeating Egypt in a shoot-out in the Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/p>\n<p>Within two months Mane had repeated the feat, netting the decisive spot-kick as Senegal beat Egypt \u2013 in a game that again pitted him against then Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah \u2013 on penalties\u00a0in a play-off to qualify for Qatar.<\/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=\"QggNdMvVFWk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QggNdMvVFWk?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>Sadio Mane Senegal forward Sadio Mane has been ruled out of the World Cup as he requires surgery on a knee injury he sustained playing for Bayern Munich. On Tuesday, Senegal\u2019s football federation said Mane, 30, would miss their \u201cfirst games\u201d at the tournament. But a further MRI scan was completed on Thursday that showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[262,2092,299,1279,2167,4459,1281,784],"class_list":["post-1252966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cup","tag-injury","tag-leg","tag-mane","tag-ruled","tag-sadio","tag-senegal","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252966","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=1252966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}