{"id":1176,"date":"2023-11-09T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/chelsea-vs-man-city-theyll-cause-problems-merson-gives-verdict-on-epl-clash\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:02:39","slug":"chelsea-vs-man-city-theyll-cause-problems-merson-gives-verdict-on-epl-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/chelsea-vs-man-city-theyll-cause-problems-merson-gives-verdict-on-epl-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Man City: They\u2019ll cause problems \u2013 Merson gives verdict on EPL clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson believes Chelsea are capable of causing Manchester City problems when both teams clash in a Premier League fixture this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Merson feels Chelsea can get a good result against Man City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday after the Blues ended Tottenham\u2019s unbeaten start to the Premier League season on Monday night with a 4-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports, Merson said, \u201cIf Chelsea get a draw, that is a good result. But it\u2019s not a free hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying in front of 38,000 at Stamford Bridge against the best team in the world, Chelsea fans turn up to win, not to make sure their team doesn\u2019t get beaten by two or three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you play for big football clubs, you are expected to go out and win or give it a go. Chelsea win trophies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTottenham were going to have a go at Chelsea and that is why I was bullish about them being able to get something. That plays into Chelsea\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan City will be the same. Chelsea will cause them problems, no doubt about it, but Man City will cause major problems at the same time. It is a game Man City know they have to play well to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea vs Man City: They\u2019ll cause problems \u2013 Merson gives verdict on EPL clash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson believes Chelsea are capable of causing Manchester City problems when both teams clash in a Premier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,2306,2307,15,160],"tags":[8,2303,609,1033,319,156,1426,202,331,2308,180,828,201,2309,623],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-manchester-city","category-merson","category-news","category-sport","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-cause","tag-chelsea","tag-city","tag-clash","tag-epl","tag-gives","tag-man","tag-manchester","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-problems","tag-sport","tag-theyll","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}