{"id":5376,"date":"2021-03-02T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2021-03-02T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:00:09","slug":"onyango-ankle-problem-worries-sundowns-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/onyango-ankle-problem-worries-sundowns-cranes","title":{"rendered":"Onyango ankle problem worries Sundowns, Cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>With the influx of players crossing to play football abroad, Uganda Cranes often carry injury concerns for big star players ahead of crucial spells.It has happened before with names like David Obua, Geoffrey Massa, Faruku Miya and even skipper Denis Onyango.The latter yet again is the worry for the Cranes\u2019 technical team ahead of this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers following an ankle problem at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Onyango was taken off at half-time as his club Mamelodi Sundowns beat Algeria\u2019s CR Belouizdad 5-1 in Algiers to keep top of Group B in the Caf Champions League on Sunday.\u201cThe injury is not so bad but he (a Belouizdad player) landed on my ankle as he chipped the ball over me,\u201d Onyango explained his situation at full-time after the encounter played in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is a blow for Sundowns who travel to face DR Congo\u2019s TP Mazembe on Match Day 3 business of the group on Friday.Sundowns lead that pool with six points while Mazembe, who have Cranes\u2019 left-back Joseph Ochaya in their ranks, are second on two points from as many matches.Yet, Cranes under Johnny McKinstry are also preparing to face log leaders Burkina Faso at home on March 22 and a visit to Malawi on March 30 to wrap up Group B in the 2022 Afcon Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I hope I will be fine in a few days. The medical team will try and assess it. It\u2019s a little bit swollen but I will be fine as time goes on,\u201d Onyango said.Burkina Faso leads Group B with eight points from four matches while Cranes are a point adrift. Malawi has four points while South Sudan is bottom with three.<\/p>\n<p><b>Caf Champions League<\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEEKEND RESULTSGROUP BBelouizdad(ALG) 1-5 Sundowns (RSA)GROUP CWydad Casa(MAR) 4-0 KaizerChiefs RSAdkyeyune@ug.nationmedia.comdkyeyune@ug.nationmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. With the influx of players crossing to play football abroad, Uganda Cranes often carry injury concerns for big star players ahead of crucial spells.It has happened before with names like David Obua, Geoffrey Massa, Faruku Miya and even skipper Denis Onyango.The latter yet again is the worry for the Cranes\u2019 technical team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Onyango ankle problem worries Sundowns, Cranes - 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