{"id":290148,"date":"2020-12-07T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=290148"},"modified":"2020-12-07T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:20:27","slug":"barcelona-vs-juventus-koeman-refuses-to-rate-messi-ahead-of-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=290148","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona vs Juventus: Koeman refuses to rate Messi ahead of Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has refused to be dragged into the Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo debate.<br \/>\nKoeman, speaking ahead of their home tie against Juventus in the Champions League, said he was looking forward to seeing two \u201cincredible\u201d talents on the pitch.<br \/>\nBoth sides clash in the final group stage fixture on Tuesday, bringing together the two eternal rivals.<br \/>\nRonaldo had missed out on the first leg after testing positive for COVID-19.<br \/>\nMessi scored in that game as Barca won 2-0.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic that these two players have been so long at this top-level in the world.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are the best players, in my opinion, in the last 10-15 years. Being successful all this time is incredible. It\u2019s a great compliment to those players.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are different, but they have incredible stats about scoring goals and hat-tricks about winning prizes.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not nice to say who is better because both are incredible, I admire both players because they gave us so many nice evenings with great goals, with great titles. Let\u2019s hope we can enjoy them tomorrow night,\u201d Koeman said.<br \/>\n(DailyPost)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has refused to be dragged into the Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo debate. Koeman, speaking ahead of their home tie against Juventus in the Champions League, said he was looking forward to seeing two \u201cincredible\u201d talents on the pitch. Both sides clash in the final group stage fixture on Tuesday, bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290149,"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":[4680,10667,15415],"class_list":["post-290148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-juventus","tag-lionel-messi","tag-ronald-koeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290148","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=290148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}