{"id":62196,"date":"2018-11-17T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62196"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:27:04","slug":"epl-liverpool-star-van-dijk-criticises-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62196","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Liverpool star, Van Dijk criticises Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ronaldo2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk has criticised Cristiano Ronaldo for ganging up against  young defender, Trent Alexandre-Arnold during their Champions League final 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused two other Real Madrid players for what happened after Mohamed Salah\u2019s injury in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool and Ronaldo-led Real Madrid clashed in the Champions League final back in May, with Los Blancos winning 3-1 in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Many Liverpool fans and players believe the final could have had a different outcome had Salah remained on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Salah limped out of the match following a collision with Sergio Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>And Van Dijk has accused Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Marcelo and Karim Benzema, of \u201cganging up\u201d on youngster Alexander-Arnold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally, something changed for Real Madrid once Salah left the pitch,\u201d Van Dijk told De Telegraaf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, Marcelo, Benzema and Ronaldo all ganged up against our young right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold and left the whole right flank free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Salah, they would not have dared.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool defender, Virgil van Dijk has criticised Cristiano Ronaldo for ganging up against young defender, Trent Alexandre-Arnold during their Champions League final 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid. He also accused two other Real Madrid players for what happened after Mohamed Salah\u2019s injury in the final. Liverpool and Ronaldo-led Real Madrid clashed in the Champions League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41351,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4679],"class_list":["post-62196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christiano-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62196","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=62196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}