{"id":20056,"date":"2024-03-03T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-youre-supposed-to-be-a-good-player-pochettino-tells-chelsea-star\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:02:27","slug":"epl-youre-supposed-to-be-a-good-player-pochettino-tells-chelsea-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-youre-supposed-to-be-a-good-player-pochettino-tells-chelsea-star\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You\u2019re supposed to be a good player \u2013 Pochettino tells Chelsea star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has highlighted the continued absence of Romeo Lavia, who he says is \u201csupposed to be a very good player\u201d, following their 2-2 draw at Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Jackson gave the Blues the lead, but they fell 2-1 behind in the second-half after the hosts fought back.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Disasi headed in a late equalizer to rescue a point, a result which leaves the Blues 11th in the Premier League, closer to the relegation zone than the top four.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino opted to switch from his favoured 4-2-3-1 to a 3-5-2 from the game, but insisted he was not copying the Brentford formation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former PSG boss, he was forced to make the change because of the continued absence of midfielders like Lavia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe needed to provide the midfield with the possibility not to cover too much distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Conor] Gallagher didn\u2019t start against Leeds because he was very, very tired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause players like Lavia was supposed to be a very good player, and of course Lesley Ugochukwu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are injured and we don\u2019t have the possibility to refresh players that are in a key area. That is why to help them with another centre-back,\u201d Pochettino said in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: You\u2019re supposed to be a good player \u2013 Pochettino tells Chelsea star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has highlighted the continued absence of Romeo Lavia, who he says is \u201csupposed to be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,15,607,160],"tags":[609,156,180,610,201],"class_list":["post-20056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-news","category-pochettino","category-sport","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-news","tag-pochettino","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056","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=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}