{"id":15151,"date":"2026-07-07T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:44:19","slug":"chelseas-2021-champions-league-final-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s 2021 Champions League Final Starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s been five years (if you can believe it!) since Chelsea won their 2021 Champions League final against Manchester City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side were very much underdogs heading into the game, but an early Kai Havertz goal proved to be the winner on a famous night for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>All but one of the starting eleven have moved on to other clubs (or even retired!) since the match in Porto.<\/p>\n<p>Press the next page as we look at where the eleven that started the game are now.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been five years (if you can believe it!) since Chelsea won their 2021 Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}