John Mensah injury blow for Ghana
Posted On Wednesday, 25th January 2012
John Mensah
Defender John Mensah was conspicuously missing in Wednesday morning’s training session as we are being told he has suffered a thigh strain.
The Black Stars captain was said to have suffered the injury before being sent off in Tuesday’s opening Group D win over Botswana.
This means Mensah, 29, was playing through the pain barrier throughout the game against the Zebras and only got some relief when he was red carded.
Team doctors will seek to get further hypothesis on the injury by taking Lyon defender to the hospital later in the day after which diagnosis will be made.
“We will take John Mensah to the hospital this afternoon for MRI scan to find out the severity of the injury,” Ghana team doctor Percy Annan said.
“He has some pain in this lower left thigh and that is why he is not training today.”
Mensah’s injury record in recent times has been very poor but hopefully he will recover in time to return to action for Ghana at the quarter final stage where he will be eligible to play if the Black Stars qualify.
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Playing shows his comitment n sacrifices. He is worth 11 KP Boatengs who luvs pussy dan Ghana.
get well soon my hero.
The rock of Gibraltar pls get well soon
JOHN MENSAH EARNED EVERY BIT OF MY RESPECT YESTERDAY.
HOPE YOU HEAL ASAP.
FINGERES CROSS.
Get well soon hero mensah
Horse placement woman would heal John Mensah in 4 hrs in the name of Almighty Allah
I really worry a lot when John Mensah isn’t in the centre of our defense. All of a sudden our game plan seems to crumble and the whole team looks panicky. Why couldn’t we keep our shape after he was sent off? Seeing that he has also been quite injury-prone these past few years, we should seriously be looking at all our options; especially as he isn’t getting any younger. Any title contending team should have a solid back-line with adequate replacements if they want to be taken serious. Also in my candid opinion, John Painstil is fast becoming a liability. It may be very prudent if we consider dropping him altogether and moving Inkoom into his position so that we can retain Massawudu at the left-back position. Paintsil’s preference of regularly lofting the ball directly from defense into attack instead of trying to build the attack (on the ground) from defense is rather old-fashioned and non-tenable in modern football.
I foresaw it coming and kept on shoutung on roof tops about certain inactive and bench warmers being selected to black stars camp.When a player is rusty on the bench or inactive he is prone to injury when put in a competitve match.John Mensah is about 38 years old has only played one match for lyon this season.He does not even sit on the bench and when he was loaned to Sunderland he was plagued with injury.Ghana will never win the cup with these bench warmers and inactive players.
Jhon really proved he is worth the captains arm band. . . And playing whiles injured shows how dedicated he is
RASHEED,de nxt tym u cum,bring de list of de plyas wich u thnk r gud 2 play nd stop talkn rubish-nice guy lyk u