{"id":11271,"date":"2022-02-25T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=196658"},"modified":"2022-02-25T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:03:10","slug":"premier-league-legend-frank-lampard-says-everton-affirmative-to-play-against-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/premier-league-legend-frank-lampard-says-everton-affirmative-to-play-against-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier league legend Frank Lampard says Everton affirmative to play against Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Lampard who is one of the most decorated midfielders in Football is now managing Everton. He played for Chelsea and Manchester City and had quite an extraordinary spell in the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Everton has lost five of their past six league games. Burnley\u2019s midweek triumph over Spurs lifted Everton just two points above the bottom three. If Burnley and Newcastle have a good day on Saturday, Everton would be in the relegation zone before their evening encounter against the league leaders, but Lampard believes it\u2019s not something to panic about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to beat Manchester City. We can\u2019t put all our eggs in the basket of this game being a game-changer completely as there are a lot of games left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are playing at this level, you don\u2019t expect to wave a magic wand and get results. You want to work in steps and bring progress and I\u2019ve seen that\u201d he said as reported by sky sports. He also said that Vitalii Mykolenko, the club\u2019s Ukrainian player, is receiving every piece of help Everton can possibly give him.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has invaded Mykolenko\u2019s home Ukraine, with Russian forces currently in the capital city of Kyiv, where the left-back played club football with Dynamo before joining Goodison Park in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton manager Frank Lampard believes that Manchester City\u2019s visit will have no bearing on his side\u2019s fight against relegation from the Premier League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1141,315,220,359,3116],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-everton-fc","tag-frank-lampard","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-russia-ukraine"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}