{"id":70592,"date":"2018-12-17T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70592"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:32:20","slug":"champions-league-round-of-16-psg-manager-speaks-on-dumping-manchester-united-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70592","title":{"rendered":"Champions League round of 16: PSG manager speaks on dumping Manchester United out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paris Saint-Germain manager, Thomas Tuchel, has played down suggestions that his side are the clear favourites against Manchester United, when they meet in the last 16 of the Champions League.<\/p>\n

The draw for the knockout stages took place in Nyon on Monday and the Red Devils will have to find a way to stop this season\u2019s top scorers.<\/p>\n

But Tuchel is adamant that United\u2019s know-how and the experience of their manager makes them dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult to play Manchester United.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have lots of experience in this competition, they\u2019ve won it numerous times. It\u2019s always difficult to play at Old Trafford, it\u2019s always a big challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big challenge for us, but if I were a spectator I would watch this game on TV,\u201d the German said according to the UK Metro.<\/p>\n

Tuchel also rejected suggestions his side were the clear favourite.<\/p>\n

\u201cFavourite? I do not think so, because we have a lack of experience in the quarter and semi finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must respect the clubs that have this experience and Manchester United is one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same thing against Mourinho. He has lots of experience in this competition and you must have respect. But we are confident in ourselves and I am convinced that we can win.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris Saint-Germain manager, Thomas Tuchel, has played down suggestions that his side are the clear favourites against Manchester United, when they meet in the last 16 of the Champions League. The draw for the knockout stages took place in Nyon on Monday and the Red Devils will have to find a way to stop this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18049,"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":[4430],"class_list":["post-70592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-psg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592","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=70592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}