{"id":355872,"date":"2021-05-24T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355872"},"modified":"2021-05-24T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:32:22","slug":"epl-chelsea-lucky-to-qualify-for-champions-league-tuchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355872","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Chelsea lucky to qualify for Champions League &#8211; Tuchel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has admitted his side was lucky to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues lost 2-1 at Aston Villa in their last Premier League fixture of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, the defeat did not prove fatal, as Leicester City threw away a 2-1 lead against Tottenham to lose 4-2 at the King Power.<\/p>\n<p>It meant Liverpool and Chelsea joined the two Manchester clubs in finishing in top four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had enough chances. We did not score, conceded two cheap goals and it was a defeat in the end. We are lucky to escape today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not hit the target, the last touch was not precise enough. It was a very strong last half an hour and we had two big chances to score. We fought, tried everything but forgot to score,\u201d Tuchel said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>(Daily Post)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has admitted his side was lucky to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League. The Blues lost 2-1 at Aston Villa in their last Premier League fixture of the campaign. However, the defeat did not prove fatal, as Leicester City threw away a 2-1 lead against Tottenham to lose 4-2 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355873,"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":[1],"tags":[1397,16344],"class_list":["post-355872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-chelsea","tag-tuchel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355872","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=355872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}