{"id":109056,"date":"2019-04-20T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109056"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T08:23:35","slug":"solskjaer-speaks-on-how-arsenal-chelsea-playing-europa-league-semis-will-help-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109056","title":{"rendered":"Solskjaer speaks on how Arsenal, Chelsea playing Europa League semis will help Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has dismissed suggestions that their top-four hopes have been boosted by all their rivals progressing to European semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Tottenham overcame Manchester City in dramatic fashion on Wednesday to make the last four of the Champions League, while Arsenal and Chelsea both won in the Europa League and will face Valencia and Frankfurt respectively.<\/p>\n

The three teams face a testing run of games to end the season, domestically and in Europe, while United are only focused on finishing in the top four now.<\/p>\n

But Solskjaer does not believe the European progress of Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs benefits United.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it will probably give them a boost playing those games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what you want, we\u2019d have loved to have a semi-final to play in but not the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese three games are our short term focus and shouldn\u2019t think about anything but having a great week,\u201d Solskjaer told a press conference on Friday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has dismissed suggestions that their top-four hopes have been boosted by all their rivals progressing to European semi-finals. Tottenham overcame Manchester City in dramatic fashion on Wednesday to make the last four of the Champions League, while Arsenal and Chelsea both won in the Europa League and will face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1406],"class_list":["post-109056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}