{"id":196441,"date":"2020-02-25T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196441"},"modified":"2020-02-25T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:20:43","slug":"champions-league-three-key-chelsea-players-to-miss-bayern-munich-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196441","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Three key Chelsea players to miss Bayern Munich clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea will be without Christian Pulisic, Callum Hudson-Odoi and N\u2019Golo Kante for their Champions League round of 16 first leg clash against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The three players were also missing, when the Blues beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said that he understands if his side are labelled as \u201cunderdogs\u201d ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern won all six of their Champions League group games this season.<\/p>\n<p>This will also be the first time both teams face each other, since the 2012 Champions League final in Munich, which saw Chelsea beat Bayern on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand if people do call us the underdog because they [Bayern] are so strong. Being the underdog, it\u2019s there for us to turn it around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the underdog talk is better to come from outside, from people looking from out to in. When you look at their team \u2014 the talent they are already have, the medals they already have \u2014 maybe we don\u2019t have that experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the underdog, if so, then it\u2019s for us to turn it around. Those are the best stories in sport,\u201d Lampard told reporters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will be without Christian Pulisic, Callum Hudson-Odoi and N\u2019Golo Kante for their Champions League round of 16 first leg clash against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, ESPN reports. The three players were also missing, when the Blues beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday. Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196442,"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":[2658,1397,12101],"class_list":["post-196441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196441","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=196441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}