{"id":115691,"date":"2019-05-10T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115691"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:31:17","slug":"europa-league-why-i-didnt-talk-to-chelsea-players-before-penalty-shootout-against-frankfurt-sarri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115691","title":{"rendered":"Europa League: Why I didn&#8217;t talk to Chelsea players before penalty shootout against Frankfurt &#8211; Sarri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EPL-Chelsea-include-EPL-manager-in-three-man-shortlist-to-replace-Sarri-after-Liverpool-defeat.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri has explained why he did not speak with his player at extra time before the penalty shootout during their Europa League semi final clash on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sarri was unusually absent at such an important moment when coaches encourage their players going into the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sarri said he was superstitious and did not wish to walk onto the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his absence in the huddle, Sarri told press conference, \u201cBecause I don\u2019t want to enter on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA superstition. [Laughs] I don\u2019t need to talk to them. I spoke with Zola so they knew very well what to say.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri has explained why he did not speak with his player at extra time before the penalty shootout during their Europa League semi final clash on Thursday. Sarri was unusually absent at such an important moment when coaches encourage their players going into the penalty shootout. However, Sarri said he was superstitious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107608,"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":[1397,8175],"class_list":["post-115691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-maurizio-sarri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115691","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=115691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}