{"id":271314,"date":"2020-10-18T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=271314"},"modified":"2020-10-18T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:11:04","slug":"newcastle-vs-man-utd-why-i-didnt-start-pogba-in-epls-4-1-win-solskjaer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=271314","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle vs Man Utd: Why I didn\u2019t start Pogba in EPL\u2019s 4-1 win \u2013 Solskjaer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has explained why he didn\u2019t start midfielder, Paul Pogba, in his side\u2019s Premier League 4-1 victory against Newcastle United on Saturday.<br \/>\nMan United defeated Newcastle at St James\u2019 Park, thanks to goals from Bruno Fernandes, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Marcus Rashford.<br \/>\nPogba had started Man United\u2019s three previous Premier League matches, but he was only handed a place among the substitutes against Newcastle.<br \/>\nThe France international came on for Fred in the 69th minute, with the scoreline at 1-1.<br \/>\nBut Solskjaer is now saying that Pogba was only fit enough for a spot on the Red Devils bench, adding that the 27-year-old returned from international duty with a number of complaints which meant he was not able to start the match.<br \/>\nExplaining his decision to start Pogba from the bench after the game, Solskjaer told post-match: \u201cPaul had hip and back problems when he was away with France, so it wasn\u2019t right to start him.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe have got big games coming up,\u201d He added. \u201cEveryone has to perform when they come on. I am delighted for him.\u201d<br \/>\nMan United\u2019s next game is against PSG in the Champions League on Tuesday.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has explained why he didn\u2019t start midfielder, Paul Pogba, in his side\u2019s Premier League 4-1 victory against Newcastle United on Saturday. Man United defeated Newcastle at St James\u2019 Park, thanks to goals from Bruno Fernandes, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Marcus Rashford. Pogba had started Man United\u2019s three previous Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271315,"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":[8922,9023],"class_list":["post-271314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-united","tag-solksjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271314","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=271314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}