{"id":294702,"date":"2020-12-19T17:53:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=294702"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T16:58:56","slug":"epl-paul-merson-criticizes-chelsea-star-compares-him-with-arsenals-mesut-ozil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=294702","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Paul Merson criticizes Chelsea star, compares him with Arsenal\u2019s Mesut Ozil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson has criticized Chelsea midfielder, Kai Havertz, ahead of the Blues\u2019 Premier League with West Ham United on Monday.<br \/>\nMerson also compared Havertz with Mesut Ozil.<br \/>\nAccording to him, Havertz\u2019s body language is doing him no favours presently at Chelsea, and just like Ozil, doesn\u2019t look bothered with the defensive side of the game.<br \/>\n\u201cKai Havertz looks like Mesut Ozil at the moment,\u201d Merson told the Daily Star.<br \/>\n\u201cA major talent, but when he loses the ball, he doesn\u2019t try to win it back.<br \/>\n\u201cOzil used to get a major stick because he didn\u2019t always seem interested. But Havertz looks like that sometimes now as well.<br \/>\n\u201cHe looks like he\u2019s out of his depth or doesn\u2019t really want to be here. But you\u2019ve to remember this is a young player who\u2019s come to a different country.\u201d<br \/>\nEPL: Paul Merson criticizes Chelsea star, compares him with Arsenal\u2019s Mesut Ozil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson has criticized Chelsea midfielder, Kai Havertz, ahead of the Blues\u2019 Premier League with West Ham United on Monday. Merson also compared Havertz with Mesut Ozil. According to him, Havertz\u2019s body language is doing him no favours presently at Chelsea, and just like Ozil, doesn\u2019t look bothered with the defensive side of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2658,1397,16100],"class_list":["post-294702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-kai-havertz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294702","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=294702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}