{"id":39263,"date":"2024-06-30T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-never-underestimate-them-iikay-gundogan-names-favourite-to-win-trophy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:04:26","slug":"euro-2024-never-underestimate-them-iikay-gundogan-names-favourite-to-win-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-never-underestimate-them-iikay-gundogan-names-favourite-to-win-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: Never underestimate them \u2013 IIkay Gundogan names favourite to win trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Barcelona midfielder, IIkay Gundogan has named England as one of the favourites to win the Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Germany midfielder believes the Three Lions should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City captain spoke ahead of England\u2019s Round of 16 clash with Slovakia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Athletic, Gundogan said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever underestimate England. They finished top of the group and got the results. In these tournaments, that is a massive thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting the results gives you confidence and motivation to play better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cMaybe only France has a similar squad in terms of talent and potential. England are still among the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the knockouts, they are full of experience \u2014 but I can understand the criticism saying they could play better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: Never underestimate them \u2013 IIkay Gundogan names favourite to win trophy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona midfielder, IIkay Gundogan has named England as one of the favourites to win the Euro 2024. The Germany midfielder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2713,19332,15,160],"tags":[1279,8,2716,1728,11128,19333,351,1593,180,201,1909,1727,19334,685],"class_list":["post-39263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euro-2024","category-iikay-gundogan","category-news","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-euro","tag-favourite","tag-gundogan","tag-iikay","tag-names","tag-never","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-them","tag-trophy","tag-underestimate","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39263","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=39263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}