{"id":195827,"date":"2020-02-22T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195827"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:30:33","slug":"epl-lampard-reveals-chelsea-boards-reaction-to-his-decision-to-bench-kepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195827","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Lampard reveals Chelsea board&#8217;s reaction to his decision to bench Kepa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said the board are in support of his decision to drop goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues made Kepa the world\u2019s most expensive goalkeeper, when they paid Athletic Bilbao \u00a371.5million last season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Spaniard has struggled recently and been replaced by Willy Cabellero for last three matches.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have conceded five goals in those games, but Lampard insists he has the backing of the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am absolutely together with the club and the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all want the best. I am paid to make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a decision to make on form with the goalkeeping situation. Recently it\u2019s just changed, but that\u2019s nothing final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Kepa needs to do is train and show a great attitude, as I demand from all the players. And things can obviously change,\u201d Lampard told the media on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said the board are in support of his decision to drop goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. The Blues made Kepa the world\u2019s most expensive goalkeeper, when they paid Athletic Bilbao \u00a371.5million last season. However, the Spaniard has struggled recently and been replaced by Willy Cabellero for last three matches. Chelsea have conceded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195828,"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":[2658,12101],"class_list":["post-195827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195827","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=195827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}