{"id":195928,"date":"2020-02-23T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195928"},"modified":"2020-02-23T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:14:17","slug":"epl-lampard-blasts-var-after-chelsea-defeated-tottenham-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=195928","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Lampard blasts VAR after Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has again lashed out at VAR officials, following their 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs playmaker, Lo Celso, escaped a red card for a stamp on Cesar Azpilicueta in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>VAR official, David Coote, decided that the player had accidentally stepped on Azpilicueta.<\/p>\n<p>Lampard, who also saw Harry Maguire escape a sending off for a stamp on Michy Batshuayi, earlier this week, told BBC: \u201cIt is not good enough, that is two VARs in two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hard to shout about it when you have lost but today everybody saw that. It is a red.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to call for red cards but that is a leg breaker. I am not saying about referees on the spot, VAR is here to clear things up and it is not good enough.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has again lashed out at VAR officials, following their 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. Spurs playmaker, Lo Celso, escaped a red card for a stamp on Cesar Azpilicueta in the second half. VAR official, David Coote, decided that the player had accidentally stepped on Azpilicueta. Lampard, who also saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195929,"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":[2658,12101,7847],"class_list":["post-195928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-frank-lampard","tag-var"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195928","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=195928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}