{"id":13514,"date":"2024-01-24T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/carabao-cup-he-was-too-risky-against-middlesbrough-pochettino-on-chelsea-star\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:02:47","slug":"carabao-cup-he-was-too-risky-against-middlesbrough-pochettino-on-chelsea-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/carabao-cup-he-was-too-risky-against-middlesbrough-pochettino-on-chelsea-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup: He was too risky against Middlesbrough \u2013 Pochettino on Chelsea star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea boss, Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that winger, Mykhailo Mudryk was playing \u2018too risky\u2019 against Middlesbrough during both teams\u2019 Carabao Cup semi-final second leg tie on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Pochettino substituted Mudryk at half time in Chelsea\u2019s 6-1 win over Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup semi final return leg at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mudryk, who received a yellow card during the encounter, struggled to impress in the first half and was replaced by Noni Madueke.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why Mudryk was subbed at half time, Pochettino said at his post-match interview: \u201cIf you watch the game, he got a yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got a yellow card and then there was an action at the end of the first half that was too risky, he nearly touched the opponent and got a second [yellow card], and we did not want to take a risk with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI think it was an unnecessary risk to have him on the pitch. That was why we changed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will now take on Liverpool or Fulham in the Carabao Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Their next game is against Aston Villa in the FA Cup fourth round at Stamford Bridge on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Carabao Cup: He was too risky against Middlesbrough \u2013 Pochettino on Chelsea star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea boss, Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that winger, Mykhailo Mudryk was playing \u2018too risky\u2019 against Middlesbrough during both teams\u2019 Carabao&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7263,606,15,607,160],"tags":[7264,609,3579,180,610,201],"class_list":["post-13514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carabao-cup","category-chelsea","category-news","category-pochettino","category-sport","tag-carabao","tag-chelsea","tag-cup","tag-news","tag-pochettino","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514","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=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}