{"id":64745,"date":"2025-04-24T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64745"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:12:53","slug":"trossard-rallies-arsenal-for-psg-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/24\/trossard-rallies-arsenal-for-psg-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trossard Rallies Arsenal for PSG Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leandro Trossard has called on his Arsenal teammates to shift their full attention to the looming Champions League semi-final clash against Paris Saint-Germain after a frustrating draw in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Wednesday\u2019s 2-2 result against Crystal Palace, the Belgian forward, who found the net in the encounter, admitted the Gunners fell short of expectations and must bounce back quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not a great performance. When you lead twice, you have to see the game through. We need to be sharper and more focused,\u201d Trossard told the club\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The forward emphasized that the team cannot afford any lapses ahead of the high-stakes European fixture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the first goal, we needed to keep things simple, but we got too comfortable. They punished us for it. That cannot happen against PSG,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>With the semi-final just days away, Trossard believes regrouping and recovery will be key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to rest and prepare properly. The next game is massive,\u201d he said, as Arsenal eyes a spot in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Leandro Trossard has called on his Arsenal teammates to shift their full attention to the looming Champions League semi-final clash against Paris Saint-Germain after a frustrating draw in the Premier League. Speaking after Wednesday\u2019s 2-2 result against Crystal Palace, the Belgian forward, who found the net in the encounter, admitted the Gunners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64747,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64745\/revisions\/64747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}