{"id":152932,"date":"2019-09-17T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152932"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:49:29","slug":"champions-league-michael-owen-predicts-chelsea-vs-valencia-napoli-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152932","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Michael Owen predicts Chelsea vs Valencia, Napoli vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former England striker, Michael Owen, has backed Chelsea to beat Valencia in today\u2019s UEFA Champions League group-stage fixture at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

He also predicted Liverpool to defeat Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo Stadium tonight.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BetVictor, Owen said: \u201cThe Europa League holders Chelsea are unbeaten in six previous ties against Valencia (W3 D3) and The Oranges conceded five at Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Blues scored five at Molineux at the weekend and I hope to see Frank Lampard\u2019s exciting young side transfer that form to the Champions League stage in a game which is likely to see opportunities at both ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the Napoli vs Liverpool clash, Owen said: \u201cThe sides met in the group stages last season and Napoli ran out deserved winners in Italy despite the fact that the only goal of the game came in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Reds have improved again in the last 12 months, however, and I expect the holders to gain a narrow, but significant, victory in Naples in what promises to be a tight, close affair.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kick-off time for all the matches is 8 pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former England striker, Michael Owen, has backed Chelsea to beat Valencia in today\u2019s UEFA Champions League group-stage fixture at Stamford Bridge. He also predicted Liverpool to defeat Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo Stadium tonight. Speaking to BetVictor, Owen said: \u201cThe Europa League holders Chelsea are unbeaten in six previous ties against Valencia (W3 D3) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152933,"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":[],"class_list":["post-152932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152932","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=152932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}