{"id":20428,"date":"2011-03-07T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T05:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20428"},"modified":"2011-03-07T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T05:02:03","slug":"ghanas-gyan-warns-arsenal-over-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20428","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Gyan warns Arsenal over Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ghana and Sunderland star Asamoah Gyan has warned Arsenal not to try to outplay Barcelona in their Champions League meeting on Tuesday.<\/strong> \u00a0(<em>Gyan helped Sunderland hold Arsenal to a draw at the weekend<\/em>)<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Gunners have a 2-1 lead from the first leg and Gyan thinks they need to be more defensive at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arsenal have a reputation for playing free-flowing football but Gyan thinks they have to be cautious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have a defensive mindset, they will score,&#8221; he told the BBC&#8217;s African sports programme Fast Track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You must make sure you don&#8217;t concede goals &#8211; you must wear them down. If you go there and try to play them at their own game then you will have a very big problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are the best team in the world &#8211; they are an all-round team, they keep on passing, keep on moving &#8211; it is really difficult to mark them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gyan and his Sunderland colleagues held Arsenal to a draw in the Premier League at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana and Sunderland star Asamoah Gyan has warned Arsenal not to try to outplay Barcelona in their Champions League meeting on Tuesday. \u00a0(Gyan helped Sunderland [&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":[5841,4133],"class_list":["post-20428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-african-footballers","tag-asamoah-gyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428","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=20428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/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=20428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}