{"id":72573,"date":"2018-12-24T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72573"},"modified":"2018-12-24T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:01:18","slug":"epl-alan-shearer-names-two-outstanding-chelsea-players-in-1-0-defeat-to-leicester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72573","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Alan Shearer names two outstanding Chelsea players in 1-0 defeat to Leicester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Alan-Shearer.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Premier League legend, Alan Shearer has singled out the likes of Marcos Alonso and Eden Hazard as the two Chelsea players that were outstanding in their side\u2019s 1-0 defeat by Leicester City on Saturday in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed the Blues defensive midfielders for not protecting the back four defenders.<\/p>\n<p>A second half goal from striker Jamie Vardy ensured Leicester City defeated Maurizio Sarri\u2019s men at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther than Alonso and Hazard there wasn\u2019t much creativity all afternoon,\u201d Shearer was quoted by Thisisfutbol as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t that reaction from them that you\u2019d expect when they went behind and there was a lack of protection in front of the back four. Leicester deserved to win that game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will now tackle Watford on Boxing Day in their next Premier League fixture.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League legend, Alan Shearer has singled out the likes of Marcos Alonso and Eden Hazard as the two Chelsea players that were outstanding in their side\u2019s 1-0 defeat by Leicester City on Saturday in the Premier League. He also blamed the Blues defensive midfielders for not protecting the back four defenders. A second half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10453,"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":[1397],"class_list":["post-72573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72573","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=72573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}