{"id":43996,"date":"2024-08-19T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=43996"},"modified":"2024-08-19T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:11:25","slug":"mikel-blames-jackson-for-chelsea-defeat-to-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/19\/mikel-blames-jackson-for-chelsea-defeat-to-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Blames Jackson For Chelsea Defeat To Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mikel Obi has blasted Nicolas Jackson for his poor performance in Chelsea\u2019s defeat to Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson struggled in front goal in the 2-0 loss to the champions at the Stamford Bridge.<br \/>\nErling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic were on target for Manchester City in either half.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were unable to convert any of their chances, with Jackson proving especially frustrating with his costly misses.<br \/>\nThe Senegal striker was taken off in the 67th minute and replaced by 18-year-old Marc Guiu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to have a striker who knows how to hit a ball in the back of the net and that\u2019s what we don\u2019t have,\u201d Mikel told beIN Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I talk so much about him and sometimes I sound like I disrespect him, but I don\u2019t disrespect him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mikel Obi has blasted Nicolas Jackson for his poor performance in Chelsea\u2019s defeat to Manchester City. Jackson struggled in front goal in the 2-0 loss to the champions at the Stamford Bridge. Erling Haaland and Mateo Kovacic were on target for Manchester City in either half. Chelsea were unable to convert any of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1355,352],"class_list":["post-43996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jackson","tag-mikel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44000,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions\/44000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}