{"id":1717,"date":"2023-11-12T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-think-youre-patrick-vieira-perry-groves-blasts-arsenal-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:04:06","slug":"epl-you-think-youre-patrick-vieira-perry-groves-blasts-arsenal-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-think-youre-patrick-vieira-perry-groves-blasts-arsenal-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You think you\u2019re Patrick Vieira \u2013 Perry Groves blasts Arsenal midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Football pundit Perry Groves has slammed Arsenal midfielder Fabio Vieira after being sent off in his side\u2019s Premier League win over Burnley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal defeated Burnley 3-1, thanks to goals from Leandro Trossard, William Saliba and Oleksandr Zinchenko.<\/p>\n<p>During the encounter, Vieira made a high and late tackle on Burnley\u2019s Josh Browhill.<\/p>\n<p>He was shown a red card by referee Michael Oliver in the 83rd minute of the clash.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the development, Groves hit out at the Portuguese on talkSPORT, referencing former Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira, who was known for his physicality.<\/p>\n<p>Groves accused the 23-year-old of having an \u2018identity crisis\u2019 after the \u2018shocking\u2019 incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exactly the right decision from Michael Oliver, it\u2019s a really, really silly challenge from Fabio Vieira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s gone right over the top of the ball, it\u2019s a straight-leg challenge, studs up, gets Josh Brownhill on his knee, Michael Oliver has absolutely no option but to send Fabio Vieira off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI think he\u2019s having an identity crisis, he thinks he\u2019s Patrick Vieira. Because it was a ridiculously shocking challenge. It was reckless, it\u2019s dangerous and Michael Oliver had no option whatsoever but to send him off. He didn\u2019t even need VAR!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vieira will now miss Arsenal\u2019s next three fixtures against Brentford, Wolves and Luton Town.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: You think you\u2019re Patrick Vieira \u2013 Perry Groves blasts Arsenal midfielder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football pundit Perry Groves has slammed Arsenal midfielder Fabio Vieira after being sent off in his side\u2019s Premier League win&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3361,3362,160],"tags":[2630,588,8,237,1785,156,3366,233,180,3365,3364,201,3363,788],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-patrick-vieira","category-perry-groves","category-sport","tag-think","tag-you","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-arsenal","tag-blasts","tag-epl","tag-groves","tag-midfielder","tag-news","tag-patrick","tag-perry","tag-sport","tag-vieira","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}