{"id":46135,"date":"2018-09-25T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46135"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:05:13","slug":"drogba-sends-message-to-morata-giroud-over-lack-of-goals-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=46135","title":{"rendered":"Drogba sends message to Morata, Giroud over lack of goals for Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Drogba-03823.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba, has told the club\u2019s top strikers, Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud to make themselves more difficult to play against.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba said this following the strikers\u2019 difficulty in finding back of the net for Chelsea this season.<\/p>\n<p>Morata scored 11 times in the Premier League last season and has managed just one so far in this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Giroud, who joined the club in January, has scored just five goals in 23 games.<\/p>\n<p>But Drogba has backed the Chelsea strike duo to come good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they will have the same success that I had,\u201d Drogba told Express Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came [to Chelsea] it wasn\u2019t easy for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for strikers it is just a matter of confidence and do you want to improve your game and make yourself more difficult to play against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what they are doing and I hope they will get more success because they deserve it.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea legend, Didier Drogba, has told the club\u2019s top strikers, Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud to make themselves more difficult to play against. Drogba said this following the strikers\u2019 difficulty in finding back of the net for Chelsea this season. Morata scored 11 times in the Premier League last season and has managed just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15865,"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":[5269],"class_list":["post-46135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drogba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46135","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=46135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}