{"id":74552,"date":"2018-12-31T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74552"},"modified":"2018-12-31T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:04:49","slug":"epl-solskjaer-vows-to-change-role-mourinho-gave-to-lukaku-in-man-utd-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=74552","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Solskjaer vows to change role Mourinho gave to Lukaku in Man Utd team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPL-Solskjaer-vows-to-change-role-Mourinho-gave-to-Lukaku-in-Man-Utd-team.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United caretaker manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hinted that Romelu Lukaku will not play in a \u201ctarget man\u201d role as long as he is in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku endured a difficult first half of the season, struggling for form and fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian came on as a second-half substitute for the impressive Marcus Rashford in their 4-1 win over Bournemouth on Sunday and scored United\u2019s final goal.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Lukaku had featured since former boss Jose Mourinho was replaced by Solskjaer, and the new man at the helm is excited by the prospect of the former Everton man being fully fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt times he\u2019s a good target man, but if you tell him to be a target man he\u2019ll never face the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday [Sunday] he was side-on and he\u2019s got the attributes of a top, top striker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to work on his fitness, but I\u2019m delighted. Even though he was half a yard offside [for his goal], it was a good finish,\u201d Solskjaer said, according to Goal.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United caretaker manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hinted that Romelu Lukaku will not play in a \u201ctarget man\u201d role as long as he is in charge. Lukaku endured a difficult first half of the season, struggling for form and fitness. The Belgian came on as a second-half substitute for the impressive Marcus Rashford in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74553,"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":[1406,6440,8961],"class_list":["post-74552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-solskjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74552","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=74552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}