{"id":48138,"date":"2024-08-20T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-serves-you-right-shut-up-petit-slams-chelsea-star-over-haaland\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:00:13","slug":"epl-serves-you-right-shut-up-petit-slams-chelsea-star-over-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-serves-you-right-shut-up-petit-slams-chelsea-star-over-haaland\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Serves you right, shut up \u2013 Petit slams Chelsea star over Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal midfielder, Emmanuel Petit has slammed Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella after the Blues fell to a 2-0 defeat against Erling Haaland\u2019s Manchester City over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The former France international advised the 26-year-old Spain defender to \u2018stay humble\u2019, shut his mouth and do the talking with his legs on the pitch and not to take \u2018the p*ss out of the opponent\u2019 before games.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that after Cucurella won the EURO 2024 title with Spain earlier in the summer, the Chelsea left-back brought out a chant aimed at Haaland during the victory celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Poking Haaland backfired on Cucurella in Chelsea\u2019s opening game of the 2024-25 Premier League season against City.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian put the Cityzens in front in the 18th minute, out-muscling Cucurella and leaving him in his tracks in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Petit told Android Poker Apps that the defeat should serve as an important lesson to the Spaniard about insulting opponents before key fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErling Haaland scoring against Marc Cucurella is probably karma. It reminds me of times before big games when I was playing and some players would say a lot in press conferences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my teams, we always said never to talk big about a player before a game otherwise that could turn into a weapon against us. That talk could motivate the opposition\u2019s player to perform even better, like it did to Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, people will say Cucurella got what he deserved and he\u2019ll learn from it but I found it funny. Next time, don\u2019t take the p*ss out of your opponent, shut your mouth, win the game and trophies and that\u2019s it, stay humble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Serves you right, shut up \u2013 Petit slams Chelsea star over Haaland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal midfielder, Emmanuel Petit has slammed Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella after the Blues fell to a 2-0 defeat against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,1926,15,8322,160],"tags":[588,8,609,156,1933,180,216,4086,2585,24468,3113,655,201,200],"class_list":["post-48138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-haaland","category-news","category-petit","category-sport","tag-you","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-haaland","tag-news","tag-over","tag-petit","tag-right","tag-serves","tag-shut","tag-slams","tag-sport","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138","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=48138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}