{"id":252078,"date":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252078"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","slug":"kwadwo-asamoah-out-for-6-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/kwadwo-asamoah-out-for-6-weeks-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwadwo Asamoah out for 6 weeks with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s Kwadwo Asamoah will miss 6 weeks of action after tests revealed a knee injury suffered during Juventus\u2019 1-0 away win at Palermo in the Serie A on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The player came off the bench in the 68th minute to replace Miralem Pjanic but after the match, tests showed that there was a problem with his knee.<\/p>\n
Juventus\u2019 website stated that Asamoah had \u201csuffered a rupture of the medial meniscus ligament in his right knee.\u201d<\/p>\n
He is expected to have surgery in coming days which will rule him out of Juventus\u2019 matches against AC Milan, Napoli, Lyon and Dinamo Zagreb.<\/p>\n
He will also miss Ghana\u2019s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Uganda in October.<\/p>\n
The injury is a setback for the player who was beginning to get games for Juventus this season after missing a large part of the 2015 calendar year due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n
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By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s Kwadwo Asamoah will miss 6 weeks of action after tests revealed a knee injury suffered during Juventus\u2019 1-0 away win at Palermo in the Serie A on Saturday. The player came off the bench in the 68th minute to replace Miralem Pjanic but after the match, tests showed that there was a problem with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[564,1240,4561],"yoast_head":"\n