{"id":177205,"date":"2019-12-19T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=177205"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:16:52","slug":"carabao-cup-semi-final-solskjaer-reacts-as-man-utd-draw-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=177205","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup semi-final: Solskjaer reacts as Man Utd draw Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/Carabao-Cup-semi-final-Solskjaer-reacts-as-Man-Utd-draw-Man.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said his players are looking forward to \u201ca nice little draw\u201d, after they were pitted against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>United overcame Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford on Wednesday, to book their place in the final four.<\/p>\n<p>They will now play City in the semi-final over two legs, during weeks commencing January 6 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer\u2019s men beat City 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium on December 7 and the United boss seemed pleased with the draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always want to win trophies and you want to win games and we got a nice little draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be exciting times coming up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel anything is written in the stars; you just work hard, take what you get and do the best out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve shown before that we can do well against City and teams like that,\u201d Solskjaer said at his post-match press conference.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said his players are looking forward to \u201ca nice little draw\u201d, after they were pitted against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. United overcame Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford on Wednesday, to book their place in the final four. They will now play City in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177206,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1406,8961],"class_list":["post-177205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-manchester-united","tag-solskjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177205","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=177205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}