{"id":2806,"date":"2014-03-17T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2014-03-17T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:05:13","slug":"mix-feeling-at-chelsea-camp-ahead-of-galatasaray-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/mix-feeling-at-chelsea-camp-ahead-of-galatasaray-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix Feeling At Chelsea Camp Ahead Of Galatasaray Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>It was a mixed feeling at Chelsea&#8217;s Cobham training ground on Monday as defender Ashley Cole was the notable absentee ahead of their UEFA Champions League last-16 second leg clash with Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p>Cole missed the session at Cobham as he continues to battle a muscle problem in his leg which has restricted him to just one appearance &#8211; which was for England &#8211; since the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>Cole, who was linked with a move to Real Madrid in the press on Monday morning, was not even part of the squad beaten 1-0 at Aston Villa on Saturday and that could give another chance to young defender Tomas Kalas.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was better news of David Luiz, who did train and could be available to boss Jose Mourinho after missing the 4-0 win over Tottenham and the shock defeat at Villa Park that caused a bunching up at the top of the Premier League over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea go into the Stamford Bridge match level with their Turkish opponents after Aurelian Chedjou cancelled out Fernando Torres&#8217; early goal in the first leg in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a mixed feeling at Chelsea&#8217;s Cobham training ground on Monday as defender Ashley Cole was the notable absentee ahead of their UEFA Champions League last-16 second leg clash with Galatasaray. Cole missed the session at Cobham as he continues to battle a muscle problem in his leg which has restricted him to just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}