{"id":28299,"date":"2014-06-29T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28299"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T16:00:51","slug":"world-cup-2014-scolari-hopeful-over-neymar-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28299","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014: Scolari hopeful over Neymar injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hopes forward Neymar will be fit to face Colombia on Friday in the quarter-finals of the 2014 Fifa World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar, 22, took a knock to his thigh early on in the second-round\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/27952759\">win over Chile<\/a>\u00a0that was decided by penalties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will do our best to put him on the pitch,&#8221; said Scolari.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar scored Brazil&#8217;s fifth spot-kick in the penalty shootout before Chile defender Gonzalo Jara missed to send Scolari&#8217;s side into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neymar needs to be valued for what he did because it was a big effort,&#8221; added the Brazil boss, who criticised English referee Howard Webb for not protecting his star player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He played 75 minutes of the match after a strong hit on the thigh and we couldn&#8217;t understand how somebody hits with that strength and gets no card,&#8221; added Scolari.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hopes forward Neymar will be fit to face Colombia on Friday in the quarter-finals of the 2014 Fifa World Cup. Neymar, 22, took a knock to his thigh early on in the second-round\u00a0win over Chile\u00a0that was decided by penalties. &#8220;We will do our best to put him on the pitch,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28300,"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-28299","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\/28299","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}