{"id":3271,"date":"2014-04-03T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2014-04-03T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:03:08","slug":"everton-wonder-kid-is-a-5050-for-crunch-clash-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/everton-wonder-kid-is-a-5050-for-crunch-clash-against-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Wonder Kid Is A 50\/50 For Crunch Clash Against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<header>Ross Barkley is facing a race against time to be fit for Everton&#8217;s crunch clash with Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>The Everton ace is struggling with a calf injury picked up in the Toffees&#8217; 3-1 win at Fulham at the weekend.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe&#8217;s such a quick healer and a young man so we hope he is going to recover in time for the game on Sunday\u201d. Roberto Martinez said<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<section>Barkley, 20, came off at half-time and manager Roberto Martinez rates his chances as 50-50 to be ready to face the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;He&#8217;s such a quick healer and a young man so we hope he is going to recover in time for the game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next three or four days we will have a clearer idea of where he is and we are going to treat every day as it comes.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>&#8220;It is fair to say it is 50-50. We need to make sure we recover him well and I&#8217;m confident in two days we will know where we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victory for Everton will put them just one point behind the Gunners with a game in hand in the race for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez added: &#8220;Playing a side in the top four makes it more glamorous and makes it significant, but it is a not a final say in the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Barkley is facing a race against time to be fit for Everton&#8217;s crunch clash with Arsenal on Sunday. The Everton ace is struggling with a calf injury picked up in the Toffees&#8217; 3-1 win at Fulham at the weekend. \u201cHe&#8217;s such a quick healer and a young man so we hope he is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3272,"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\/3271"}],"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=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}