{"id":131970,"date":"2019-07-02T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131970"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:20:32","slug":"iwobi-claims-unai-emery-is-playing-him-out-of-position-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131970","title":{"rendered":"Iwobi claims Unai Emery is playing him out of position at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Iwobi-claims-Unai-Emery-is-playing-him-out-of-position-at-Arsenal.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Alex Iwobi has admitted he is being played out of position at Arsenal, as he would prefer to play as a central midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who is currently representing Nigeria at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, has been utilised in a wide position by Unai Emery, due to the presence of Mesut Ozil, Granit Xhaka and Lucas Torreira at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he featured 35 times in the Premier League, 13 of which as substitute, making 951 passes and creating 40 chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to play anywhere, I will play wherever I\u2019m told to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up I\u2019ve been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn\u2019t say if I\u2019m most comfortable there but that\u2019s where I grew up playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always seen myself as a midfielder but wherever I\u2019m being told to play in the middle or somewhere, I will always give my best,\u201d Iwobi told Goal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Iwobi has admitted he is being played out of position at Arsenal, as he would prefer to play as a central midfielder. The 23-year-old, who is currently representing Nigeria at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, has been utilised in a wide position by Unai Emery, due to the presence of Mesut Ozil, Granit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131971,"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":[7647,4427,7321],"class_list":["post-131970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alex-iwobi","tag-arsenal","tag-unai-emery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131970","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=131970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}