{"id":299826,"date":"2021-01-04T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299826"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:52:43","slug":"epl-lampard-speaks-on-getting-sacked-at-chelsea-after-3-1-defeat-to-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=299826","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Lampard speaks on getting &#8216;sacked&#8217; at Chelsea after 3-1 defeat to Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has insisted he is \u201cunconcerned,\u201d by speculation surrounding his future at the club and his only focus is turning around their slump.<br \/>\nThe Blues have now won only one of their last seven matches in all competitions, after losing 3-1 to Manchester City on Sunday.<br \/>\nIlkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne all scored in the first half at Stamford Bridge, to hand the former champions complete domination of the game.<br \/>\nChelsea have now slipped to 8th place in the table, with reports emerging claiming the club is considering firing Lampard if the team\u2019s poor performances continue.<br \/>\nWhen asked about the mounting pressure on him, Lampard said: \u201cI\u2019m not concerned on that point.<br \/>\n\u201cI expected periods of difficulty this year. I said it when we beat Leeds and everyone was championing us to be title contenders. I know that it doesn\u2019t come that easy, I know where we\u2019re at.<br \/>\n\u201cWhether it puts pressure on me is regardless. Because a month ago, everyone was asking when I would sign a new contract, and now people will be saying different things because over a tight, busy period, we\u2019ve lost four games of football.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has insisted he is \u201cunconcerned,\u201d by speculation surrounding his future at the club and his only focus is turning around their slump. The Blues have now won only one of their last seven matches in all competitions, after losing 3-1 to Manchester City on Sunday. Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299827,"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":[2658,1397,12101],"class_list":["post-299826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299826","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=299826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}