{"id":21812,"date":"2019-07-08T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=21812"},"modified":"2019-07-08T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:06:58","slug":"afcon-2019-jonathan-mensah-fit-tunisia-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/afcon-2019-jonathan-mensah-fit-tunisia-game\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Jonathan Mensah fit for Tunisia game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AFCON 2019: Jonathan Mensah fit for Tunisia game<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Ghana Black Stars defender Jonathan Mensah has declared himself fit for crucial game against Tunisia in the Africa Cup of Nations round of 16.<\/h3>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nJonathan Mensah picked up an injury in Ghana&#8217;s 0-0 against Cameroon, and this saw him miss Ghana&#8217;s last group game against Guinea Bissau.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the game, the defender stated that he is fit for the Tunisia game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very good now. I\u2019m getting better and better now. I leave it for the head coach and the medical team to decide but I\u2019ve been communicating with the medical staff about how I feel but everything is fine,\u201d he said at the team\u2019s pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will face Tunisia on Monday as both teams will battle to scale to the next round of the competition.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFCON 2019: Jonathan Mensah fit for Tunisia game Ghana Black Stars defender Jonathan Mensah has declared himself fit for crucial game against Tunisia in the Africa Cup of Nations round of 16. Jonathan Mensah picked up an injury in Ghana&#8217;s 0-0 against Cameroon, and this saw him miss Ghana&#8217;s last group game against Guinea Bissau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9347,8417],"tags":[9883,3949,3045,255,3638,11713,665],"class_list":{"0":"post-21812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afcon-2019","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-2019-afcon","10":"tag-afcon","11":"tag-afcon-2019","12":"tag-ghana","13":"tag-ghana-black-stars","14":"tag-jonathan-mensah","15":"tag-tunisia"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/74ccb32d0688ca468b24884f81a3121b_L.jpg?fit=865%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-5FO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32880,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/jonathan-mensah-leaves-black-stars-camp\/","url_meta":{"origin":21812,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan Mensah leaves Black Stars camp","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"June 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghana Black Stars defender Jonathan Mensah has left the Black Stars camp and will return to his club to recover fully from a head injury he sustained during Ghana's game against Central African Republic. 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