{"id":3756,"date":"2014-04-25T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2014-04-25T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:34:56","slug":"former-chelsea-player-cant-wait-to-face-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/former-chelsea-player-cant-wait-to-face-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"”I Can’t Wait To Face The Blues” Sturridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has confirmed that he is hoping to feature against Chelsea this weekend.<\/p>\n

Sturridge missed the win at Norwich last weekend with a hamstring injury, but Liverpool are hoping to include him on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sturridge admits he should be fit\u00a0but does not know if Brendan Rodgers will start with him.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully this weekend I’ll be back,” said Sturridge.<\/p>\n

“I’m not too sure if he’ll play\u00a0me or not. We’ll have to see.”<\/p>\n

Sturridge admitted that he was unsure how he would react if he scored against Chelsea – being one of his former clubs – but thinks it would be hard not to celebrate in his usual exuberant fashion.<\/p>\n

“I would like to show respect to my former club,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But if I were to come on and score in the last minute I’m going to be on a mad one, aren’t I?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to – but I don’t know if I could control myself if that happened.”<\/p>\n

Team-mate Jordan Henderson is hopeful that Sturridge will be playing on Sunday and told Sky Sports News: “He is a massive player for us.<\/p>\n

“The last game against Norwich I thought we did brilliantly, but it’s always a bonus to have a player like Daniel back, so hopefully he is fit and can do the business at the weekend.<\/p>\n

“We’re in a very good position but nothing’s won yet. I think we’ve got to keep our feet firmly on the ground, starting with Chelsea.<\/p>\n

“And our focus is on not getting too carried away and just keeping on what we’ve been doing all season.”<\/p>\n

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Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has confirmed that he is hoping to feature against Chelsea this weekend. Sturridge missed the win at Norwich last weekend with a hamstring injury, but Liverpool are hoping to include him on Sunday. Sturridge admits he should be fit\u00a0but does not know if Brendan Rodgers will start with him. “Hopefully this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3757,"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\/3756"}],"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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}