{"id":336096,"date":"2021-04-06T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336096"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:32:20","slug":"stoke-city-manager-blames-mikel-obi-others-for-2-1-defeat-to-millwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=336096","title":{"rendered":"Stoke City manager blames Mikel Obi, others for 2-1 defeat to Millwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Stoke manager, Michael O\u2019Neill, has blamed John Mikel Obi and his other team-mates for a poor second half, which resulted in a 2-1 defeat to Millwall on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Obi played the entire 90 minutes of the Championship clash, but was unable to stop his team losing at home.<\/p>\n<p>However, O\u2019Neill insists the game should have been won.<\/p>\n<p>Stoke most likely settle for a place in the second tier next season, after their three-game unbeaten streak was ended by Gary Rowett\u2019s team, as they are now 11 points off the top six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed with the result, very disappointed with the second-half performance really. We showed two sides of our character today, first half we were excellent, really good play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we conceded a poor goal after three clean sheets and conceded another poor goal in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a defensive error that cost us, I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d lose the game to be honest,\u201d O\u2019Neill said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke manager, Michael O\u2019Neill, has blamed John Mikel Obi and his other team-mates for a poor second half, which resulted in a 2-1 defeat to Millwall on Monday night. Mikel Obi played the entire 90 minutes of the Championship clash, but was unable to stop his team losing at home. However, O\u2019Neill insists the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336097,"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":[2658,12370,11893],"class_list":["post-336096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-john-mikel-obi","tag-new-castle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336096","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=336096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}