{"id":399791,"date":"2021-10-02T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=399791"},"modified":"2021-10-02T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:26:13","slug":"epl-youre-putting-yourself-under-pressure-arsenal-hero-blasts-solskjaer-for-benching-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=399791","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You\u2019re putting yourself under pressure &#8211; Arsenal hero blasts Solskjaer for benching Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal hero, Paul Merson, has slammed Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s decision to bench Cristiano Ronaldo against Everton in Saturday\u2019s Premier League match.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer didn\u2019t start Ronaldo against Everton as goals from Anthony Martial and Andros Townsend ensured both teams played a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils boss had said that he benched Ronaldo against Everton because he needed to freshen up his squad by introducing Martial and Edinson Cavani, who he said are good players.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his decision not to start Ronaldo prior to kick-off, Solskjaer said: \u2018Well Wednesday was a big effort, big emotional and physical output so needed to freshen it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [Martial and Cavani] know they are good players, they know they are going to be very important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Merson was, however, confused by Solskjaer\u2019s logic, telling Sky Sports that the manager was putting himself under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s putting himself under pressure. The go-to man is Ronaldo, he\u2019s got them out of trouble I don\u2019t know how many times already this season and he\u2019s on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what his thinking is. It\u2019s not like Ronaldo is running left, right and centre and closing everybody down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to give him the ball to make things happen. He wouldn\u2019t be tired,\u201d Merson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal hero, Paul Merson, has slammed Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s decision to bench Cristiano Ronaldo against Everton in Saturday\u2019s Premier League match. Solskjaer didn\u2019t start Ronaldo against Everton as goals from Anthony Martial and Andros Townsend ensured both teams played a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford. The Red Devils boss had said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399792,"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":[2658,1406],"class_list":["post-399791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399791","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=399791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}