{"id":16052,"date":"2014-05-02T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=16052"},"modified":"2014-05-02T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:21:08","slug":"gyan-closes-in-on-fantastic-40-goals-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=16052","title":{"rendered":"Video &#038; stats: Gyan closes in on fantastic 40 goals this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is inching closer to a landmark 40 goals in one season for his club side Al Ain.<\/p>\n<p>The player got his second brace in consecutive games on Thursday as his club drew 2-2 Al Jazira in the Arabian Gulf League clash.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan&#8217;s two goals have taken him to 28 goals in 25 games &#8211; and hence the league&#8217;s top scorer spot &#8211; ahead of Argentine forward Sebastian Tagliabue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Gyan&#8217;s stats since Al Ain move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2011\/2012 &#8211; 22 goals in 18 league games (27 in all competitions)<br \/>\n2012\/2013 &#8211; 31 goals in 22 league games (32 in all competitions)<br \/>\n2013\/2014 &#8211; 28 goals in 25 league games (36 in all competitions so far)<br \/>\nTotal haul- 81 goals in 65 league games (95 in all competitions)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Black Star is aiming for his third straight top scorer gong, after winning the award in the 2011\/12 and 2012\/13 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This season alone, Gyan has now <b> cumulatively scored 36 goals in 36 games in all competitions <\/b> and Ghana will hope this form translates in June&#8217;s World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Baby Jet&#8217;, who only launched his personal website days ago, is also in contention for the Sports Writers Association of Ghana Awards (SWAG) Personality of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, he needs just five goals to reach the magical 100 goals mark since leaving England for the Emirates. Machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch highlights of Gyan&#8217;s brace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pt5W6i0NNcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyalsmith\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @garyalsmith<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is inching closer to a landmark 40 goals in one season for his club side Al Ain. The player got his second brace in consecutive games on Thursday as his club drew 2-2 Al Jazira in the Arabian Gulf League clash. Gyan&#8217;s two goals have taken him to 28 goals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15353,"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-16052","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\/16052","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}