{"id":244459,"date":"2020-08-07T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=244459"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:44:41","slug":"man-city-vs-real-madrid-clarence-seedorf-predicts-champions-league-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=244459","title":{"rendered":"Man City vs Real Madrid: Clarence Seedorf predicts Champions League clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">AC Milan legend, Clarence Seedorf, has predicted that it would be \u2018tough\u2019 for Real Madrid to overturn their Champions League round of 16 first-leg defeat against Manchester City when both sides clash in the second-leg at Etihad Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Seedorf, a former Real Madrid player, also believes that nothing is impossible in football, adding that he expects Man City to prove a point after their \u2018average season\u2019 in the Premier League that saw Pep Guardiola\u2019s men lose the English top-flight league title to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid lost 2-1 to Man City in the first-leg at the Santiago Bernabeu back in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when Zidane came [back], he got that chemistry back in place and after corona, I think Madrid came out solid when Barcelona came out a bit segregated,\u201d Seedorf told Stats Perform News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, when the club with players like [Sergio] Ramos and [Karim] Benzema smell the opportunity against that rival then that creates a motivation that they used and brought it home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRamos and Benzema have been key, key players but, as I said, the whole team has shown a pretty solid shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at them without the results they have now, they are considered definitely [among] the favourites, Manchester City as well \u2013 these are two top teams in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be tough to go there and turn it around, but nothing is impossible in that sense. But also, Manchester City needs to make up for the average season, if you can call it that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can do it, but it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seedorf won the Champions League during his time at Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan legend, Clarence Seedorf, has predicted that it would be \u2018tough\u2019 for Real Madrid to overturn their Champions League round of 16 first-leg defeat against Manchester City when both sides clash in the second-leg at Etihad Stadium on Friday night. Seedorf, a former Real Madrid player, also believes that nothing is impossible in football, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244460,"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":[10175,5278,11045],"class_list":["post-244459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-city","tag-real-madrid","tag-seedorf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244459","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=244459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}