{"id":764872,"date":"2022-01-24T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/some-of-these-red-card-decisions-in-afcon-are-surprising-michael-essien-says\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:57:42","slug":"some-of-these-red-card-decisions-in-afcon-are-surprising-michael-essien-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/some-of-these-red-card-decisions-in-afcon-are-surprising-michael-essien-says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Some Of These Red Card Decisions In AFCON Are Surprising&#8221; &#8211; Michael Essien Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/a3b3815ce6dd4b6dbc7eb072a32dafc8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 64, 67);\">Ghanaian former professional footballer, Michael Essien has commented on the red card decisions in the ongoing AFCON tournament. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 64, 67);\">The Ghanaian former professional footballer, Michael Essien, who is currently a member of Danish Superliga club FC Nordsj\u00e6lland&#8217;s coaching staff took to Twitter to address it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(60, 64, 67);\">According to Micheal Essien, some of the red card decisions in the ongoing AFCON competition are &#8220;shocking&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Essien who seems unhappy about some of the red cards decisions also asked if football is getting &#8220;soft&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>His tweet reads; <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Some of these red card decisions in #AFCON are shocking. Is football getting soft???\u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udfff&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot below<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/a2ef688fdd3b417a9661294d7d298ba3?quality=uhq&amp;resize=720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Netizens react;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Martin: &#8220;Michael, that was an appalling foul. It\u2019s why some European managers don\u2019t want to release players to Afcon: they know the tackling is appalling.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Chris Meek: &#8220;\ud83d\ude02 you and Muntari would have chop red card\u00a0in every game if you were playing in this tournament&#8230; Hardcore guys \ud83d\udc4d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agyeman Opambuor: &#8220;I&#8217;m still wondering up till now why Dede Ayew was given that red card. Today, I think it&#8217;s karma&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mirpuri: &#8220;Rules are rules. It was a poor tackle. Abdou didn&#8217;t go for the ball. Sad but fair. Don&#8217;t forget AFCON opened with a very physical game: Burkina Faso vs Cameroon. Managers in Europe were scared for their players due to the rough tackles. Refs must stamp their authority on games.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Jojo: &#8220;This is Africa and VAR needs to pay more attention to the intent behind the tackle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Naycha (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAFCON<br \/>\nDanish Superliga<br \/>\nFC Nordsj\u00e6lland<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nMichael Essien<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian former professional footballer, Michael Essien has commented on the red card decisions in the ongoing AFCON tournament. The Ghanaian former professional footballer, Michael Essien, who is currently a member of Danish Superliga club FC Nordsj\u00e6lland&#8217;s coaching staff took to Twitter to address it. According to Micheal Essien, some of the red card decisions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764872","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=764872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}