{"id":18884,"date":"2024-02-25T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-absolutely-shocking-paul-merson-slams-man-utd-after-2-1-loss-to-fulham\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T07:02:32","slug":"epl-absolutely-shocking-paul-merson-slams-man-utd-after-2-1-loss-to-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-absolutely-shocking-paul-merson-slams-man-utd-after-2-1-loss-to-fulham\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Absolutely shocking \u2013 Paul Merson slams Man Utd after 2-1 loss to Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson has slammed Manchester United following their Premier League 2-1 defeat to Fulham on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Bassey put Fulham in front but Harry Maguire\u2019s goal on the brink of stoppage time looked to have rescued a point for Man United.<\/p>\n<p>However, Alex Iwobi restored the visitors\u2019 lead at injury time and condemned the Red Devils to defeat at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Merson said Erik ten Hag\u2019s side were absolutely shocking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan United were shocking, I\u2019m not exaggerating. Absolutely shocking,\u201d Merson told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, how they can think they can get in the top four. And what is the point of getting the top four anyway? Just to get into the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not going to win it. So what\u2019s the point in being in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Absolutely shocking \u2013 Paul Merson slams Man Utd after 2-1 loss to Fulham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson has slammed Manchester United following their Premier League 2-1 defeat to Fulham on Saturday. Calvin Bassey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,5937,1305,15,6912,160],"tags":[156,324,202,2308,180,2325,201,203],"class_list":["post-18884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-fulham","category-man-utd","category-news","category-paul-merson","category-sport","tag-epl","tag-fulham","tag-man","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-sport","tag-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884","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=18884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}