{"id":3395,"date":"2014-04-09T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2014-04-09T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:50:03","slug":"ba-tells-mourinho-etoo-torres-and-i-are-great-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/ba-tells-mourinho-etoo-torres-and-i-are-great-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Ba Tells Mourinho.. ”Eto’o, Torres And I Are Great Players”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Demba Ba offered Jose Mourinho\u00a0a reminder that Chelsea\u00a0do have “three great strikers” after scoring the goal that propelled the club into a seventh Champions League\u00a0semi-final in 11 years, at the expense of Paris St-Germain, the team he has supported since his youth.<\/p>\n

Chelsea were on the verge of elimination two minutes before Ba was introduced, with Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto’o also on the pitch.<\/p>\n

That trio have drawn regular criticism from Mourinho over the course of the campaign, not least after last week’s 3-1 defeat at Parc des Princes when the manager had claimed he lacked any “real” strikers.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t out for revenge,” said Ba in the aftermath. “Maybe he [Mourinho] doesn’t have the strikers to his liking, but I know that we have three great strikers and I think that a lot of clubs would like to have them. I’m happy to have liberated us. I haven’t been given my chance much this season, but I’ve taken this one.<\/p>\n

“It’s the first time I’ve ever wished PSG to lose, and it’s me who scores the goal, luckily for Chelsea. I’m happy for Chelsea but it’s hard to see [PSG] lose, especially with one of my best friends, Yohan Cabaye, on the other side. But Eden [Hazard] kept telling me all day: ‘It’s your time tonight.”<\/p>\n

”I was a bit scared for the Parisians because, after the third goal in Paris, everyone thought PSG were in the semi-final. Even my younger brothers kept telling me this, and then when Eden went off [with a calf strain] their fans already thought they were in the semi-finals. We heard them [singing]: ‘We’re in the semi-finals.'”<\/p>\n

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  Demba Ba offered Jose Mourinho\u00a0a reminder that Chelsea\u00a0do have “three great strikers” after scoring the goal that propelled the club into a seventh Champions League\u00a0semi-final in 11 years, at the expense of Paris St-Germain, the team he has supported since his youth. Chelsea were on the verge of elimination two minutes before Ba was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}