{"id":142119,"date":"2015-08-10T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142119"},"modified":"2015-08-10T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:45:34","slug":"michael-essien-ruled-out-of-panathinaikos-game-because-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=142119","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien ruled out of Panathinaikos game because of injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Essien has been ruled out of Panathinaikos\u2019s Europa League play-off tie against Azerbaijani side FK Qabala.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana midfielder, who joined the Greek giants this summer on a free transfer, is not ready to return to the field after undergoing surgery last month.<\/p>\n<p>Essien has started running but Panathinaikos do not want to risk him and will miss both games to be played this month.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be\u00a0on <span data-term=\"goog_1976898349\">19 August<\/span> and with the Greek giants hosting the return leg the following week.<\/p>\n<p>Panathinaikos hope the former Chelsea and AC Milan player will be ready for the Super League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Essien has been ruled out of Panathinaikos\u2019s Europa League play-off tie against Azerbaijani side FK Qabala. The Ghana midfielder, who joined the Greek giants this summer on a free transfer, is not ready to return to the field after undergoing surgery last month. Essien has started running but Panathinaikos do not want to risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":142120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-142119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}