{"id":430194,"date":"2023-03-17T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430194"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:19:55","slug":"viera-sacked-as-palace-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/viera-sacked-as-palace-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Viera sacked as Palace manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace announced on Thursday morning that head-coach Patrick Viera has been sacked after 18 months at the wheel of the club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crystal Palace Football Club can confirm that Patrick Vieira has left his post as First Team Manager.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CPFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CPFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPFC\/status\/1636639013959286791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Eagles are enduring a wretched streak of 12 consecutive games without a win, which has left them only 3 points above the relegation zone. The French manager had been under fire in recent weeks due to his team&#8217;s struggles and after Wednesday 1-0 defeat against Brighton there was no turning back for the former Arsenal legend.<\/p>\n<p>Club chairman Steve Parish published a statemant on the club website, in which he thanked Viera for the job he has done at Selhurst Park, but the decision stems from their willingness to preserve their top-flight status.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with enormous regret that this difficult decision has been made,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, results in recent months have placed us in a precarious league position and we felt a change is necessary to give us the best chance of retaining Premier League status.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace face Premier Legue leaders Arsenal on Sunday and it is still uncertain who will take charge over club in their quest to end the rotten run of form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace announced on Thursday morning that head-coach Patrick Viera has been sacked after 18 months at the wheel of the club. Crystal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430195,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18279],"news_category":[14235,136],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-Arsenal player was given the sack by South London team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430194"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430194"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}