{"id":50716,"date":"2024-09-25T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-micah-richards-rates-arsenals-chances-of-winning-title-after-rodris-injury\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:04:42","slug":"epl-micah-richards-rates-arsenals-chances-of-winning-title-after-rodris-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-micah-richards-rates-arsenals-chances-of-winning-title-after-rodris-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Micah Richards rates Arsenal\u2019s chances of winning title after Rodri\u2019s injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former England defender, Micah Richards, has said Rodri\u2019s injury makes the Premier League title race far \u201cmore balanced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Richards, it is now a \u201c50-50\u201d battle between Arsenal and Manchester City for the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri suffered a serious knee injury during City\u2019s 2-2 draw with Arsenal last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The champions are yet to confirm the severity of his issue but widespread reports on Monday claim the 28-year-old had sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury and would miss the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The Rest Is Football podcast, Richards said he was \u201cabsolutely devastated\u201d for the Spain midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely devastated for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the one who passionately spoke about there being too many games and then he goes and gets injured so it\u2019s a sad day for Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it makes it more balanced in terms of Arsenal\u2019s chances of winning the league. I don\u2019t think it makes them favourites but I think it\u2019s 50-50 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Micah Richards rates Arsenal\u2019s chances of winning title after Rodri\u2019s injury<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England defender, Micah Richards, has said Rodri\u2019s injury makes the Premier League title race far \u201cmore balanced\u201d. According to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,194,9591,15,7421,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-epl","category-micah-richards","category-news","category-rodri","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716","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=50716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}