{"id":70087,"date":"2025-07-09T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70087"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:51:36","slug":"jackson-now-chelseas-third-choice-striker-mikel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/09\/jackson-now-chelseas-third-choice-striker-mikel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Now Chelsea\u2019s Third-Choice Striker -Mikel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel says Nicolas Jackson has dropped to third choice in Chelsea\u2019s striking pecking order behind new signings Liam Delap and Joao Pedro.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, once Chelsea\u2019s primary option up front, now faces stiff competition following the arrivals of Delap from Ipswich Town for \u00a330 million and Pedro from Brighton for \u00a360 million.<\/p>\n<p>Delap impressed at the FIFA Club World Cup, scoring against ES Tunis before missing the semi-final against Fluminense due to suspension.<\/p>\n<p>In his absence, Pedro made his full debut and scored twice in a 2-0 win, proving his worth to manager Enzo Maresca.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson came off the bench in that match but failed to impress, missing a key chance and drawing criticism from teammate Cole Palmer for not squaring the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, who has long advocated for more attacking depth at Chelsea, believes the club now boasts strong forward options with Jackson, Delap, and Pedro all competing for the lead role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel says Nicolas Jackson has dropped to third choice in Chelsea\u2019s striking pecking order behind new signings Liam Delap and Joao Pedro. Jackson, once Chelsea\u2019s primary option up front, now faces stiff competition following the arrivals of Delap from Ipswich Town for \u00a330 million and Pedro from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70087","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70089,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70087\/revisions\/70089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}