{"id":159756,"date":"2025-04-17T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ucl-piers-morgan-names-best-midfielder-in-the-world"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:17:34","slug":"ucl-piers-morgan-names-best-midfielder-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ucl-piers-morgan-names-best-midfielder-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"UCL: Piers Morgan names best midfielder in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Controversial British broadcaster, Piers Morgan, has named Arsenal\u2019s Declan Rice as the best midfielder in the world at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said this after Rice led Arsenal to beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg tie on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that two goals from Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli gave the Gunners the victory over Los Blancos.<\/p>\n<p>Vini\u0301cius Ju\u0301nior did score a goal for Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabe\u0301u.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg ended 2-1 in favour of Mikel Arteta\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal advanced to the Champions League semi-final stage with a 5-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League North London club had won the first leg 3-0 at Emirates Stadium last week, with Rice scoring two free-kick goals.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on X after Arsenal defeated Madrid in Spain, Morgan hailed Rice, who won the Man of the Match award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest midfielder in the world. @_DeclanRice,\u201d Morgan posted, alongside multiple fire emojis.<\/p>\n<p>Rice joined Arsenal from Premier League side West Ham United in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Controversial British broadcaster, Piers Morgan, has named Arsenal\u2019s Declan Rice as the best midfielder in the world at the moment. Morgan said this after Rice led Arsenal to beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg tie on Wednesday. Recall that two goals from Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":159755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254,9249,1055],"class_list":["post-159756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria","tag-piers-morgan","tag-ucl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCL: Piers Morgan names best midfielder in the world - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ucl-piers-morgan-names-best-midfielder-in-the-world\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCL: Piers Morgan names best midfielder in the world\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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