{"id":352888,"date":"2021-05-17T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=352888"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:17:07","slug":"fa-cup-it-hurts-abraham-reacts-to-being-snubbed-by-tuchel-in-chelsea-1-0-defeat-to-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=352888","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: It hurts &#8211; Abraham reacts to being snubbed by Tuchel in Chelsea 1-0 defeat to Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1]<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea striker, Tammy Abraham has told the club\u2019s manager, Thomas Tuchel that not playing in the FA Cup final defeat to Leicester City \u2018hurts.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The England international, however said the club still have \u2018unfinished business\u2019 this season, being their Champions League final against Manchester City and Premier League top four battle.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was left out of Thomas Tuchel\u2019s 20-man squad for Saturday\u2019s showpiece at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite being the club\u2019s joint-top scorer this season on 12 goals across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham\u2019s girlfriend, Leah Monroe, had slammed Tuchel prior to kick-off at Wembley for leaving her partner out of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester defeated Chelsea 1-0 to claim their first ever FA Cup trophy courtesy of Youri Tielemans\u2019 stunning second-half strike.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham admitted the result \u2018hurts\u2019 as he thanked fans for their support. \u201cIt hurts but we still have unfinished business,\u201d the striker tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your support, good to have you back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Abraham was not a player for him after the defeat, Tuchel told Stadium Astro after the FA Cup final defeat: \u201cNo, it\u2019s just hard decisions on a matchday when you can only nominate 18 players.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chelsea striker, Tammy Abraham has told the club\u2019s manager, Thomas Tuchel that not playing in the FA Cup final defeat to Leicester City \u2018hurts.\u2019 The England international, however said the club still have \u2018unfinished business\u2019 this season, being their Champions League final against Manchester City and Premier League top four battle. The 23-year-old was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352889,"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":[2658,1397,16441],"class_list":["post-352888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-thomas-tuchel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352888","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=352888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/352889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}