{"id":26610,"date":"2024-04-11T06:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ucl-you-didnt-perform-rio-ferdinand-blames-mbappe-for-3-2-defeat-to-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T06:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:03:53","slug":"ucl-you-didnt-perform-rio-ferdinand-blames-mbappe-for-3-2-defeat-to-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ucl-you-didnt-perform-rio-ferdinand-blames-mbappe-for-3-2-defeat-to-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL: You didn\u2019t perform \u2013 Rio Ferdinand blames Mbappe for 3-2 defeat to Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has criticized Kylian Mbappe for his performance in Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s defeat to Barcelona on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ligue 1 champions suffered a 3-2 loss in front of their fans, in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe produced a below-par display in what could be his last chance to win the competition with PSG.<\/p>\n<p>After Raphinha gave Barca the lead, the hosts turned the game on its head as Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha struck just after half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha scored again, before Andreas Christensen headed in the winner in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Ferdinand said on TNT Sports: \u201cPSG are not out of it but they have got to be a much better version of themselves next game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one we spoke about, the best player in the world in my opinion; Mbappe. He didn\u2019t perform and when he doesn\u2019t perform PSG invariably don\u2019t get the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCL: You didn\u2019t perform \u2013 Rio Ferdinand blames Mbappe for 3-2 defeat to Barcelona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has criticized Kylian Mbappe for his performance in Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s defeat to Barcelona on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057,15,195,160,13714],"tags":[198,1064,180,204,201,13715],"class_list":["post-26610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mbappe","category-news","category-rio-ferdinand","category-sport","category-ulc","tag-ferdinand","tag-mbappe","tag-news","tag-rio","tag-sport","tag-ulc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610","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=26610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}