{"id":25401,"date":"2024-04-03T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-william-gallas-criticises-pochettinos-use-of-chelsea-star-in-wrong-positions\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:03:35","slug":"epl-william-gallas-criticises-pochettinos-use-of-chelsea-star-in-wrong-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-william-gallas-criticises-pochettinos-use-of-chelsea-star-in-wrong-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: William Gallas criticises Pochettino\u2019s use of Chelsea star in wrong positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea defender William Gallas has criticised manager Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s use of Conor Gallagher, stating that the midfielder is being played in the wrong position.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher has been used in multiple positions for Chelsea this season, including attacking midfield, central midfield, and defensive midfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Gallagher] is not a playmaker, he\u2019s a ball-winning midfielder, and physically, he can run a lot and press very high,\u201d Gallas told Gambling Zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that around him, you need players with different qualities, like a playmaker who can play very quickly between the lines, giving good assists. Gallagher doesn\u2019t do that and that is why it doesn\u2019t work for Chelsea with him in that position.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt looks like the three players, Gallagher, [Moises] Caicedo and Enzo [Fernandez], don\u2019t really match each other. That is a problem, so it shows how, at board level, they don\u2019t really have any vision and they just buy players for the sake of buying players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: William Gallas criticises Pochettino\u2019s use of Chelsea star in wrong positions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea defender William Gallas has criticised manager Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s use of Conor Gallagher, stating that the midfielder is being&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,15,607,160,11397],"tags":[609,156,4927,180,610,201,10323],"class_list":["post-25401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-news","category-pochettino","category-sport","category-william-gallas","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-gallas","tag-news","tag-pochettino","tag-sport","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401","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=25401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}