{"id":394044,"date":"2021-09-15T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394044"},"modified":"2021-09-15T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:29:28","slug":"champions-league-pochettino-names-club-that-will-challenge-psg-for-trophy-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394044","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Pochettino names club that will challenge PSG for trophy this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has said Champions League holders Chelsea are the \u201cteam to beat\u201d in the competition this season.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men began defence of their title with a 1-0 win over home to Zenit St Petersburg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>PSG travel to Club Brugge in Group A on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino\u2019s men are tipped as one of the favourites to win the Champions League after the arrival of Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>But Pochettino said Chelsea\u2019s spending makes them the most dangerous team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible that Chelsea and ourselves are the two teams to beat on paper, looking at our squads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Chelsea are the holders so they\u2019re the team to beat especially after strengthening their squad,\u201d Pochettino told a news conference on Tuesday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea re-signed Romelu Lukaku for \u00a397.5 million and added midfielder Saul Niguez on loan from Atletico Madrid, while PSG signed Messi, Georginio Wijnaldum, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Sergio Ramos on free transfers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(Daily Post)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has said Champions League holders Chelsea are the \u201cteam to beat\u201d in the competition this season. Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men began defence of their title with a 1-0 win over home to Zenit St Petersburg on Tuesday. PSG travel to Club Brugge in Group A on Wednesday. Pochettino\u2019s men are tipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394045,"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":[16217,4430,11344],"class_list":["post-394044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pachecottino","tag-psg","tag-ucl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394044","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=394044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}