{"id":538735,"date":"2026-04-19T02:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:43:11","slug":"michael-carrick-believes-kobbie-mainoo-performance-v-chelsea-was-his-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538735\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick believes Kobbie Mainoo performance v Chelsea was his best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI thought that was the best Kobbie\u2019s played, certainly since I\u2019ve been back here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTo step up and put so many phases or sides to his game tonight\u2026 I thought he looked so composed and so calm, he had a real presence about him, defended well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy when you\u2019ve got good players around you and it was a good battle between him and Cole Palmer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he had to be right at it tonight but as you saw he had so much quality and composure in a tough environment really, to show us what he can do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI thought that was the best Kobbie\u2019s played, certainly since I\u2019ve been back here,\u201d he added. \u201cTo step&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27998,185909,3214,59,3212,1753,72217,50,175817,1755,101,56,54,1756,55],"class_list":["post-538735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2025-26","tag-2026_04_18_stamford_bridge_london","tag-first-team","tag-gb","tag-kobbie-mainoo","tag-like","tag-michael-carrick","tag-news","tag-post-match","tag-search","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-now","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}