{"id":146692,"date":"2019-08-25T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146692"},"modified":"2019-08-25T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:46:45","slug":"serie-a-de-ligt-left-shocked-after-being-dropped-for-juventus-win-over-parma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146692","title":{"rendered":"Serie A: De Ligt left shocked after being dropped for Juventus’ win over Parma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthijs de Ligt has admitted he was surprised to be among Juventus\u2019 substitutes, for their league opener at Parma on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Dutch defender, who moved from Ajax in a \u00a367.8million deal, was forced to watch on as Maurizio Sarri\u2019s men claimed a 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini were picked to start the game in central defence and it was Chiellini who netted the winner.<\/p>\n

De Ligt told Dutch publication AD: \u201cNaturally, I would\u2019ve preferred to play and I didn\u2019t get any clues from training, so I didn\u2019t expect to be on the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I respect the decision of the Coach. I must be realistic, as I am still settling in here in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defenders who played, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, were considered for a long time to be the best centre-back partnership in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to earn my place throughout the season. The first five weeks have been tough on a physical level, but I do notice that I\u2019m getting stronger.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefensively, the demands are not that different to what I was accustomed to at Ajax, as the Coach wants us to anticipate the movement.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthijs de Ligt has admitted he was surprised to be among Juventus\u2019 substitutes, for their league opener at Parma on Saturday night. The Dutch defender, who moved from Ajax in a \u00a367.8million deal, was forced to watch on as Maurizio Sarri\u2019s men claimed a 1-0 victory. Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini were picked to start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146693,"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":[4680,12144],"class_list":["post-146692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-juventus","tag-matthijs-de-ligt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146692","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=146692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}