{"id":297128,"date":"2020-12-27T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297128"},"modified":"2020-12-27T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T07:03:25","slug":"epl-lampard-blasts-lazy-chelsea-players-after-3-1-defeat-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297128","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Lampard blasts &#8216;lazy&#8217; Chelsea players after 3-1 defeat at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has hit out at his \u2018lazy\u2019 Chelsea players, after they lost 3-1 to Arsenal on Boxing Day.<br \/>\nThe Gunners were 15th before the game, while the Blues could have gone second with a win.<br \/>\nBut Lampard\u2019s men were 3-0 down after 56 minutes, thanks to goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Granit Xhaka and Bukayo Saka.<br \/>\nLampard, speaking to the media after the game, accused his players of not wanting to run or put the required amount of effort in from the start.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m angry because I want to win games. Today was an opportunity to go to a place where they\u2019re having a tough time but you know how that goes.<br \/>\n\u201cYou either make it more difficult for them or you give them a little opening. We did that from minute one and then we continued to do it for 45 minutes and then you get what you deserve.<br \/>\n\u201cLazy giving away a penalty, and a free-kick, I\u2019m very disappointed with way we approached first half,\u201d Lampard said.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has hit out at his \u2018lazy\u2019 Chelsea players, after they lost 3-1 to Arsenal on Boxing Day. The Gunners were 15th before the game, while the Blues could have gone second with a win. But Lampard\u2019s men were 3-0 down after 56 minutes, thanks to goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Granit Xhaka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297130,"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":[4427,1397,9512],"class_list":["post-297128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-chelsea","tag-epl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297128","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=297128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}