{"id":328123,"date":"2021-03-17T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328123"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:33:11","slug":"chelsea-vs-atletico-madrid-rudiger-opens-up-on-fight-with-suarez-speaks-on-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=328123","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid: Rudiger opens up on \u2018fight\u2019 with Suarez, speaks on revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea defender, Antonio Rudiger, has opened up on \u2018fight\u2019 with Atletico Madrid striker, Luis Suarez, ahead of both teams\u2019 clash in the Champions League round of 16 second-leg tie tonight.<br \/>\nRudiger also insisted that he would not seek revenge when he faces Suarez at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.<br \/>\nThe 28-year-old had a great battle with the Atletico number 9 in the first leg in Bucharest last month as Chelsea defeated the LaLiga leaders 1-0, thanks to Olivier Giroud\u2019s overhead kick.<br \/>\nDuring the second half of that encounter, Suarez appears to pinch the thigh of Rudiger and the Germany International square up to the Uruguayan forward, who fights back.<br \/>\nHowever, Speaking during his pre-match conference on Tuesday, Rudiger was asked whether he was wary of any revenge from Suarez, the centre-back said, \u201cAt the end of the day this is not something that gives me a boost or something like this.<br \/>\n\u201cHe defends his badge, I defend mine. This is all, this is all. I go with no feeling any pressure for his revenge or anything like this.<br \/>\n\u201cI am just focused on our targets and that is to win the game and get through because Atletico is not only Luis Suarez.<br \/>\n\u201cHonestly, he\u2019s a world-class player. He\u2019s shown it at every club he has been in Europe, Liverpool, Barcelona, Ajax, and now Atletico. He\u2019s a very, very good player and he has a lot of fight in him and obviously, he\u2019s a top opponent.<br \/>\n\u201cHe just defends his badge by trying to fight for his team.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea defender, Antonio Rudiger, has opened up on \u2018fight\u2019 with Atletico Madrid striker, Luis Suarez, ahead of both teams\u2019 clash in the Champions League round of 16 second-leg tie tonight. Rudiger also insisted that he would not seek revenge when he faces Suarez at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. The 28-year-old had a great battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328124,"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":[1397,8798,13943],"class_list":["post-328123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-luis-suarez","tag-rudiger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328123","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=328123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}