{"id":348288,"date":"2021-05-05T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=348288"},"modified":"2021-05-05T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T17:20:17","slug":"champions-league-neymar-criticised-after-man-city-crashes-psg-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=348288","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Neymar criticised after Man City crashes PSG out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, has come under attack after his side was defeated 2-0 by Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday night.<br \/>\nMan City eliminated PSG from the Champions League semi-final second-leg tie following Riyad Mahrez\u2019s brace at Etihad.<br \/>\nPep Guardiola\u2019s side qualified for the final on a 4-1 aggregate win, having won the first-leg 2-1 in Paris last week.<br \/>\nHowever, Jerome Rothen, a former PSG player, has now criticized Neymar for his display against Man City, adding that he expected more from the Brazilian.<br \/>\nRothen said PSG needs to rethink renewing Neymar\u2019s contract after their latest setback.<br \/>\n\u201c[Neymar] He\u2019s a genius, okay, I am the first to say it, but when he\u2019s in that frame of mind, losing one out of every two balls and when he doesn\u2019t try hard for the team and blames a young player like [Mitchel] Bakker, who could have played his best half of football in a PSG shirt, that is unacceptable,\u201d said Rothen told RMC Sport.<br \/>\n\u201cWe expected more, and I am the first to criticize him, but you can\u2019t just criticize Neymar.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cThe club wants to renew his contract, but I think they need to rethink it.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen he plays badly like today, you have to tell him. The sporting director [Leonardo] is flattering him by talking about a contract renewal.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>(Daily Post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, has come under attack after his side was defeated 2-0 by Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday night. Man City eliminated PSG from the Champions League semi-final second-leg tie following Riyad Mahrez\u2019s brace at Etihad. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side qualified for the final on a 4-1 aggregate win, having won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348289,"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":[10175,4460,4430],"class_list":["post-348288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-city","tag-neymar","tag-psg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348288","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=348288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}