{"id":153459,"date":"2019-09-19T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153459"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:50:38","slug":"champions-league-barkley-takes-decision-on-chelsea-penalty-duties-after-valencia-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153459","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Barkley takes decision on Chelsea penalty duties after Valencia miss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea midfielder, Ross Barkley, has insisted he will continue to take penalties for the team.<\/p>\n

Barkley fluffed a chance to make it 1-1 against Valencia from the spot in the Champions League on Tuesday, as the Blues began their campaign with defeat.<\/p>\n

The England star was seen arguing with Willian and Jorginho, before picking up the ball and manager Frank Lampard confirmed afterwards, that he was the designated kicker. <\/p>\n

There have been calls for more experienced players to take future penalties, but Barkley is not willing to step down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m on the pitch, I\u2019ll take the penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I didn\u2019t execute it right but everybody misses penalties. I didn\u2019t score the goal but I felt confident. If there was another penalty in the game, I would have been confident to take it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can miss penalties. It\u2019s not the end of the world. We\u2019ve got five more games in the group stage that we\u2019re aiming to win but this didn\u2019t go our way,\u201d Barkley told reporters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea midfielder, Ross Barkley, has insisted he will continue to take penalties for the team. Barkley fluffed a chance to make it 1-1 against Valencia from the spot in the Champions League on Tuesday, as the Blues began their campaign with defeat. The England star was seen arguing with Willian and Jorginho, before picking up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153460,"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":[13274,1397],"class_list":["post-153459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barkley","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153459","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=153459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}