{"id":3380,"date":"2014-04-08T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2014-04-08T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:11:26","slug":"uniteds-striker-recovers-from-injury-in-readiness-for-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/uniteds-striker-recovers-from-injury-in-readiness-for-bayern-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"United’s Striker Recovers From Injury In Readiness For Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pep Guardiola is 100% certain and willing to bet “a big, big glass of beer” that Wayne Rooney will for Manchester United against Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s quarter-final second leg despite the striker’s toe injury.<\/p>\n

Rooney was able to train with the team on Tuesday despite David Moyes revealing on Friday that the forward was a doubt for the game.<\/p>\n

Rooney suffered the injury in last Tuesday’s 1-1 draw at Old Trafford in the first leg. This caused him to miss Saturday’s 4-0 win at Newcastle United, with the forward’s availability for the deciding leg at the Allianz Arena in the balance.<\/p>\n

Yet Guardiola told his Tuesday morning pre-match media briefing that he is convinced that Rooney \u2013 and Antonio Valencia \u2013 will definitely play.<\/p>\n

The Bayern coach said: “He is going to play, 100%. He is going to play \u2013 I bet you a big, big glass of beer. I believe he is going to play, and Valencia too. Rooney is going to play. He is a big player.”<\/p>\n

Ryan Giggs, who has also been struggling with injury, also took part in the session although Marouane Fellaini missed out.<\/p>\n

After the training session concluded, Rooney said he was feeling good about Wednesday night’s second leg.<\/p>\n

He wrote on his facebook page: “Good training session with the lads ahead of the Bayern Munich match tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

“It’s a massive game for us against a top side but we’ll be going in confident and looking to progress into the semi-finals.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pep Guardiola is 100% certain and willing to bet “a big, big glass of beer” that Wayne Rooney will for Manchester United against Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s quarter-final second leg despite the striker’s toe injury. Rooney was able to train with the team on Tuesday despite David Moyes revealing on Friday that the forward was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3381,"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\/3380"}],"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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}