{"id":401063,"date":"2021-10-05T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=401063"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:54:24","slug":"epl-rio-ferdinand-questions-solskjaer-over-decision-on-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=401063","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Rio Ferdinand questions Solskjaer over decision on Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has questioned manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, for benching Cristiano Ronaldo during the club\u2019s Premier League 1-1 draw with Everton over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand said he was shocked by Solskjaer\u2019s decision not to start Ronaldo against Everton, adding that the Portugal captain was in form, having scored five goals in five matches for United.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo was benched by Solskjaer during Man United\u2019s clash with Everton on Saturday as Edinson Cavani started ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Ferdinand told the FIVE YouTube channel, \u201cI was shocked. I was amazed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s scored five in five, when you are striker\u2019s in form, why bench him? If Kane gets five in five, do they drop him? The same for Aguero or Lukaku? Do they come out of the team when they are in a rich vein of form?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Ronaldo\u2019s experienced enough to be able to say, \u201cmy body\u2019s not feeling great, leave me out of this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers like that are capable of being able to come to you because they know they are body better than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRonaldo\u2019s frustration tells you he was ready to start, that is where it comes from. Ole wanted to freshen up the team, but it\u2019s always a risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has questioned manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, for benching Cristiano Ronaldo during the club\u2019s Premier League 1-1 draw with Everton over the weekend. Ferdinand said he was shocked by Solskjaer\u2019s decision not to start Ronaldo against Everton, adding that the Portugal captain was in form, having scored five goals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401064,"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":[2658,5278],"class_list":["post-401063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-real-madrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401063","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=401063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}