{"id":18132,"date":"2011-01-06T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=18132"},"modified":"2011-01-06T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:37:28","slug":"strasser-extends-milans-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=18132","title":{"rendered":"Strasser extends Milan\u2019s lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milan\u2019s goal came in the 85<sup>th<\/sup> min from Sierra Leonean international Rodney Strasser\u2019s assist from Cassano as &#8216;the Rossoneri beat Cagliari away from home Thursday evening to extend their lead in the Italian Serie A. His goal was describe as Milan winter sample by the Italian www.corriere.it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strasser was to be sold in the January transfer window but Boateng&#8217;s injury paved the way for the agile midfielder as coach Allegri decided to keep him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leonean international 20-years Rodney Strasser unlocked Rossoneri in a tough away clash a brilliant goal that saw the entire Milan squad show satisfaction. It was a vital away three points for the Italians giant and was a great achievement for the young talented midfielder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the Sierra Leonean\u2019s first ever goal since he made his debut for the Italian side against Udinese December 21 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_18134\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Strasser-in-tears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18134\" title=\"Strasser in tears\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Strasser-in-tears-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strasser in tears<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shedding tears was part of his celebration as the whole Milan squad run towards him to pat on the back the young gifted midfielder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recently made his international debut for the Sierra Leone national team in the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualification away in the Egypt 5 September 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_18135\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Strassers-teammates-celebrate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18135\" title=\"Strasser's teammates celebrate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Strassers-teammates-celebrate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strasser&#39;s teammates celebrate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Milan now with 39 points from 18 league encounters means they are above Lazio with 5 clear points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe started the year better than we finished the previous one, but we are also happy because it was a painful victory, &#8220;said the Milan coach, Massimiliano Allegri, to win the big competitions, it takes a great team and a great spirit of sacrifice, and today the boys showed.\u00a0Today it was important to win, we did it in a way not beautiful, we made some mistakes, but overall there was a lot of attention, congratulation to Strasser he show he is ready to mix&#8221; Allegri said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milan\u2019s goal came in the 85th min from Sierra Leonean international Rodney Strasser\u2019s assist from Cassano as &#8216;the Rossoneri beat Cagliari away from home Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[5590,5191,5492,3559],"class_list":["post-18132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-rodney-strasser","tag-sierra-leone-footballers","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-strasser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}