{"id":329145,"date":"2021-03-19T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=329145"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:17:26","slug":"champions-league-quarter-finals-joe-cole-rates-chelsea-liverpool-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=329145","title":{"rendered":"Champions League quarter-finals: Joe Cole rates Chelsea, Liverpool chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former England midfielder, Joe Cole, has said Chelsea and Liverpool are both capable of winning the Champions League this season.<br \/>\nLiverpool, which won the competition in 2019, face Real Madrid in the quarter-finals, while Chelsea has been drawn against FC Porto.<br \/>\n\u201cEveryone would have wanted Porto,\u201d Cole told BT Sport after the draw was made.<br \/>\n\u201cThey beat a really poor Juventus side on the night.<br \/>\n\u201cPorto were okay, they showed that togetherness. They played very much like [Atletico Madrid manager] Diego Simeone\u2019s teams play actually. Pepe was magnificent for them but he\u2019s 38.<br \/>\n\u201cChelsea, with the run they\u2019re on and the squad they\u2019ve got, they\u2019ve got to be favourites there. They will be delighted with that draw, that\u2019s for sure.<br \/>\n\u201cUnder Tuchel, they look athletic and solid. They look like they\u2019re all together and that\u2019s important too.<br \/>\n\u201cI think they\u2019ve got the second-best squad in the Premier League. They\u2019re in great form so you can\u2019t write them off. I think they\u2019re second or third favourites now.\u201d<br \/>\nOn Liverpool\u2019s chances, Cole added: \u201cYou can\u2019t write them off either.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re sitting here thinking you\u2019d take Liverpool in the draw but if they get it together, they can beat anyone.<br \/>\n\u201cThey will fancy their chances against Real Madrid, who are in disarray. It\u2019s an old Madrid team. For me, they\u2019re not a massive threat.<br \/>\n\u201cLiverpool is a threat, they just need to get it together.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England midfielder, Joe Cole, has said Chelsea and Liverpool are both capable of winning the Champions League this season. Liverpool, which won the competition in 2019, face Real Madrid in the quarter-finals, while Chelsea has been drawn against FC Porto. \u201cEveryone would have wanted Porto,\u201d Cole told BT Sport after the draw was made. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329146,"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":[4427,1397,16519],"class_list":["post-329145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-chelsea","tag-joe-cole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329145","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=329145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}