{"id":395459,"date":"2021-09-20T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395459"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:52:48","slug":"pochettino-reveals-what-messi-told-him-after-being-subbed-off-in-psgs-win-against-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=395459","title":{"rendered":"Pochettino reveals what Messi told him after being subbed off in PSG\u2019s win against Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has revealed that Lionel Messi told him that he was \u2018OK\u2019 after being subbed off in his side\u2019s 2-1 win with Lyon in the Ligue 1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino said this while reacting to Messi\u2019s disgruntled reaction to being subbed off against Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>Messi refused to shake hands with Pochettino, after being taken off during their game against Lyon at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who is yet to score for PSG since he arrived as a free agent from Barcelona, made his first home start against Lyon but was taken off in the 76th minute with the scores tied at 1-1, thanks to Neymar\u2019s penalty.<\/p>\n<p>But Mauro Icardi\u2019s stoppage-time header gave Pochettino\u2019s side all three points against the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everybody knows we have many great players in this 35-man squad,\u201d Pochettino said at his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 11 can play, we can\u2019t play more. We have to make choices, within the matchday squad and then during the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisions in the game are made for the good of the team and each player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery coach thinks about that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn\u2019t. Sometimes players like it and sometimes they don\u2019t. At the end of the day, that\u2019s why we are here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are decisions that have to be made by the coach. As for his [Messi] reaction, I asked him how he was, he said he was OK. That was it. That was our exchange. No issues.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has revealed that Lionel Messi told him that he was \u2018OK\u2019 after being subbed off in his side\u2019s 2-1 win with Lyon in the Ligue 1 on Sunday. Pochettino said this while reacting to Messi\u2019s disgruntled reaction to being subbed off against Lyon. Messi refused to shake hands with Pochettino, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395460,"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":[2398,16217,4430],"class_list":["post-395459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-messi","tag-pachecottino","tag-psg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395459","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=395459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}