{"id":63430,"date":"2014-11-09T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=63430"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:58:22","slug":"essien-starts-ac-milan-draw-sampdoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=63430","title":{"rendered":"Essien starts for AC Milan in draw at Sampdoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">AC Milan&#8217;s winless streak stretched to four matches but a penalty secured them a draw at third-placed Sampdoria, a game in which Ghanaian Michael Essien featured for the entire 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Milan&#8217;s Stephan El Shaarawy brilliantly curled in his first league goal for 622 days for the opener.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Stefano Okaka flicked in an equaliser for Sampdoria just before half time and Brazilian forward Eder put the hosts ahead soon after the restart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Jeremy Menez&#8217;s spot kick, after Djamel Mesbah handled, levelled matters before Daniele Bonera was sent off for Milan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">The defender received a second yellow card for blocking striker Stefano Okaka with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Sampdoria, who have lost just once this season, moved within two points of second-place Roma and five adrift of leaders Juventus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Milan&#8217;s\u00a0Chelsea loanee\u00a0striker Fernando Torres came off the substitutes bench in the second half but was unable to add to his solitary goal since moving to Italy in the summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan&#8217;s winless streak stretched to four matches but a penalty secured them a draw at third-placed Sampdoria, a game in which Ghanaian Michael Essien featured for the entire 90 minutes. Milan&#8217;s Stephan El Shaarawy brilliantly curled in his first league goal for 622 days for the opener. Stefano Okaka flicked in an equaliser for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":63431,"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-63430","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\/63430","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=63430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}