{"id":52648,"date":"2018-10-16T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52648"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:11:36","slug":"neymar-happy-to-avoid-messi-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52648","title":{"rendered":"Neymar happy to avoid Messi clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Neymar-happy-to-avoid-Messi-clash.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Brazil striker, Neymar is happy he will not have to go up against Lionel Messi, when they take on Argentina in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Messi was not included in Lionel Scaloni\u2019s squad for the second successive set of internationals, as speculation over his Argentina future continues<\/p>\n<p>Neymar admits the absence of his former Barcelona team-mate is a blow for the spectators watching the game, but he feels it gives Brazil a greater chance of overcoming their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who love football, having Messi out of a game like this is bad. But for us it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never underestimate Argentina\u2019s quality, the players they have in their squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArgentina have Dybala, who is a player that I really like, so we have to be switched on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult game. We will have to do our job and it\u2019s always good to play them. There are no favourites,\u201d Neymar told a pre-match news conference.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil striker, Neymar is happy he will not have to go up against Lionel Messi, when they take on Argentina in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Messi was not included in Lionel Scaloni\u2019s squad for the second successive set of internationals, as speculation over his Argentina future continues Neymar admits the absence of his former Barcelona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52649,"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":[4460],"class_list":["post-52648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-neymar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52648","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=52648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}