{"id":417087,"date":"2021-11-23T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=417087"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:52:06","slug":"champions-league-i-wont-deny-messi-names-big-favourites-to-win-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=417087","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: \u2018I won\u2019t deny\u2019 &#8211; Messi names big favourites to win trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Paris Saint-Germain forward, Lionel Messi has insisted that he won\u2019t deny that Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side are \u2018big favourites\u2019 to win the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Messi said this ahead of PSG\u2019s Champions League clash with Manchester City on Wednesday night at Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine captain, however, admitted that PSG needs to be strong in order to win the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, PSG were eliminated from the Champions League semi-final against Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea eventually won the Champions League after beating Man City 1-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone says we are the big favourites [to win the Champions League this season],\u201d Messi told MARCA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t deny that we are one of the candidates, but we still need some things to be a really strong team.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain forward, Lionel Messi has insisted that he won\u2019t deny that Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side are \u2018big favourites\u2019 to win the Champions League this season. Messi said this ahead of PSG\u2019s Champions League clash with Manchester City on Wednesday night at Etihad. The Argentine captain, however, admitted that PSG needs to be strong in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416586,"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":[2658,17558],"class_list":["post-417087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-mauricio-pochettino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417087","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=417087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/416586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}