{"id":122667,"date":"2019-06-01T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122667"},"modified":"2019-06-01T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:39:03","slug":"tottenham-vs-liverpool-pochettino-reveals-painful-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122667","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham vs Liverpool: Pochettino reveals “painful” decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has admitted he faces a \u201cpainful\u201d decision, when naming his starting team for the Champions League final, as he remained guarded about Harry Kane\u2019s fitness.<\/p>\n

Kane has been out of action since April 9, when he damaged his ankle against Manchester City, in the Champions League quarter-final.<\/p>\n

The England captain says he is ready to return to the side, as Spurs prepare to take on Liverpool in the biggest match in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Pochettino has to decide whether to keep faith with the players who completed the remarkable semi-final comeback against Ajax, led by hat-trick hero Lucas Moura, or gamble on Kane.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the decisions are tough decisions, it is so painful.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is part of my job to decide how to pick the starting XI. This is not going to be easy to make a decision tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to take the best decision to try and win, but like always in football, it is so painful when this type of game arrives and you can only use from the beginning eleven players.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the most painful situation,\u201d Pochettino told a press conference on Friday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has admitted he faces a \u201cpainful\u201d decision, when naming his starting team for the Champions League final, as he remained guarded about Harry Kane\u2019s fitness. Kane has been out of action since April 9, when he damaged his ankle against Manchester City, in the Champions League quarter-final. The England captain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108087,"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":[8375,5319],"class_list":["post-122667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pochettino","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122667","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=122667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}