{"id":23986,"date":"2026-02-22T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23986"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:32:12","slug":"match-of-the-day-analysis-watkins-has-to-respond-to-pressure-of-abrahams-arrival-at-villa-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23986","title":{"rendered":"Match of the Day analysis: Watkins has to respond to pressure of Abraham&#8217;s arrival at Villa &#8211; Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match of the Day pundit Wayne Rooney believes Tammy Abraham&#8217;s arrival at Aston Villa could be key to Ollie Watkins rediscovering his form, as the pressure of competition for his place in the starting line-up is something &#8220;he has to respond to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/cy8gn54mr0jo\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Late Abraham goal rescues point for Villa against Leeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/ceqvjrgl5x5t\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Abraham equaliser earns draw for Villa against Leeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Available to UK users only.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c70nr8p92epo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match of the Day pundit Wayne &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}