{"id":115743,"date":"2019-05-10T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115743"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:46:04","slug":"europa-league-final-sarri-clashes-with-chelsea-board-ahead-of-arsenal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115743","title":{"rendered":"Europa League final: Sarri clashes with Chelsea board ahead of Arsenal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, has admitted that he is unhappy with his squad being forced to travel to the United States for a post-season friendly before their Europa League final against Arsenal.<\/p>\n

The Blues qualified for the Europa League final after beating Eintracht Frankfurt in a dramatic penalty shootout at Stamford Bridge on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Sarri\u2019s side will face Arsenal in Baku on May 29 after Unai Emery\u2019s men beat Valencia in their semi-final.<\/p>\n

Chelsea play Leicester City on Sunday in their final Premier League game of the season after which they will travel to the United States, for a post-season friendly against New England Revolution in Massachusetts on May 16.<\/p>\n

And Sarri has said he is annoyed with the disruption to his squad\u2019s recovery, ahead of their final against Arsenal in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we need to rest. Unfortunately we have to go to play in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I think in this moment, we need to rest. We have 10 days to prepare for the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to recover energy because we are really very tired,\u201d Sarri told BT Sport.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri, has admitted that he is unhappy with his squad being forced to travel to the United States for a post-season friendly before their Europa League final against Arsenal. The Blues qualified for the Europa League final after beating Eintracht Frankfurt in a dramatic penalty shootout at Stamford Bridge on Thursday evening. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112915,"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-115743","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\/115743","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=115743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}