{"id":65463,"date":"2025-05-08T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65463"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:25:46","slug":"psg-we-play-better-without-mbappe-says-donnarumma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/08\/psg-we-play-better-without-mbappe-says-donnarumma\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG: We Play Better Without Mbappe, Says Donnarumma\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, has stirred fresh debate after declaring that the French giants are thriving more without superstar Kylian Mbappe, who left for Real Madrid last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Donnarumma made the bold remark following PSG\u2019s 2-1 triumph over Arsenal, which sealed their place in the UEFA Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing reporters after the match, the Italian shot-stopper said Mbappe\u2019s departure has reshaped the team&#8217;s mentality and chemistry for the better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spirit has changed, we are much more of a team. We play for each other,\u201d he told Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Though he acknowledged Mbappe\u2019s talent and friendship, Donnarumma insisted the current squad\u2019s unity is powering their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe miss Kylian, he is one of the best in the world and I wish him all the best because he is a great friend,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the team is very united, we\u2019re doing well together. We (Italy) won a European Championship like this \u2014 it makes all the difference in every team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With their eyes set on Champions League glory, PSG seem to be soaring, even without their former talisman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, has stirred fresh debate after declaring that the French giants are thriving more without superstar Kylian Mbappe, who left for Real Madrid last summer. Donnarumma made the bold remark following PSG\u2019s 2-1 triumph over Arsenal, which sealed their place in the UEFA Champions League final. Addressing reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65465,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463\/revisions\/65465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}