Sentences with phrase «carling cup this campaign»

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It was not that Theo or Giroud should be defended for any weak campaign, more that if they had had a hypothetically strong campaign in a competition a lot of fans deem second tier, (Carling Cup, Europa League, even F.A. Cup to some fans, I'm guessing including yourself as you seem happy to disregard the opening goal of the FINAL for some strange reason.......)

After the disappointment of going out of the European Cup at the hands of Bayern Munich despite coming within one goal of qualification to the Quarter Finals, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal side have to pick themselves up once more this season for the tough trip to this year's Carling Cup winners Swansea City who have caused Arsenal sizeable difficulties on the three occasions the two sides have met thus far this campaign with player of the season Michu having already registered three goals against the Gunners.

Arsenal had endured a frustrating season, after being knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of United, losing the Carling Cup Final, unfairly losing to Barcelona in the Champions League and a stuttering league campaign, which saw them 9 points behind United coming into this game.

After making a promising start to the campaign with great results over Barnsley and Bristol City in the Carling Cup, a trip to Anfield to face Liverpool in September prompted a slump in League form.

The club had previously gone 47 - years without winning a trophy before claiming this term's Carling Cup, after a hard - fought 2 - 1 win over Arsenal in the final, so to clinch two in a single campaign really would be a touch of irony, and some feat, too, considering Birmingham have never lifted the FA Cup before in their history.

Nevertheless, the strikers wasted no time in duelling on the matter and were in sublime form last weekend when Aruna Dindane, a player who has been widely criticsed this season for missing several glaring misses, scored not only his first league goal in a Pompey shirt but also his first Hat - Trick for the club, while Frederic Piquionne scored Portsmouth remaining goal, which was surprisingly his first league goal of the campaign, although, the on loan Lyon front man does have 3 Carling Cup goals to his name, so he hasn't been completely goal shy since he joined the club in the summer.