{"id":247403,"date":"2026-04-20T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=247403"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:40:18","slug":"joseph-paintsil-pleased-after-scoring-on-injury-comeback-in-la-galaxys-draw-with-fc-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/20\/joseph-paintsil-pleased-after-scoring-on-injury-comeback-in-la-galaxys-draw-with-fc-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Paintsil pleased after scoring on injury comeback in LA Galaxy&#8217;s draw with FC Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ghana forward Joseph Paintsil has expressed delight after netting on his return to action to help LA Galaxy to a comeback draw against FC Dallas in the MLS.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 28-year-old spent six weeks on the sidelines due to injury, but made a huge impact following his return, creating and scoring in the 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paintsil served <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Lucas Sanabria<\/strong><\/span> for LA Galaxy&#8217;s first before netting a minute later to cancel a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> Petar Musa<\/strong><\/span> double for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FC Dallas<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Post-match walk off with Joseph Paintsil \ud83d\udcab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lagalaxy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lagalaxy<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Herbalife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Herbalife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8u14oWYt7J\">pic.twitter.com\/8u14oWYt7J<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAGalaxy\/status\/2045704600250888557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s been a rough season for me, getting injured for almost 6 weeks. This is not something that any footballers want, but it&#8217;s also part of the game. But being on the score sheet today, it has really made me feel really good,&#8221; he said after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It boosts my energy to also give me more confidence to go to the next game. And, yeah, the team did everything possible to take this one point. I&#8217;m just really grateful that I&#8217;m still healthy and for getting minutes in this game against Dallas,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good fighting spirit in Dallas.<br><br>Eyes on victory in our next challenge\ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E39Mla98k3\">pic.twitter.com\/E39Mla98k3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joseph Paintsil (@josephpaintsil_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephpaintsil_\/status\/2045707396572454950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strike was Painstil&#8217;s first in the league as the 2024 champions push for a return to the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana forward Joseph Paintsil has expressed delight after netting on his return to action to help LA Galaxy to a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[361,362],"class_list":["post-247403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-fc-dallas","tag-joseph-paintsil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}