Not exact matches
Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win over Hull
City in the FA
cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke
City yesterday, our next Premier
League game throws up an away
game with the reigning EPL champions.
one thing is for sure, Chelsea will not win
league or icl, and I wish they get
City in the 4th round of FA and loose too, and in another
cup I wan na crystal palace beating them, and Dean to be fined for today's calls, and costa getting red next
game, missing 5
games, getting red again, released, picked up by Bastia and retired on Corsica
The Gunners are going through a difficult period currently, losing back - to - back
games against Manchester
City in the
League Cup final and Premier
League to lead to a fresh wave of scrutiny and criticism for Wenger and his players.
Then they have the
league cup game against Hull
City on the Tuesday after and Hull could do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to Stoke and the TV folk have done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their final UCL
game the next Tuesday.
But confidence will be high in the Chelsea camp as well after 10
league games without defeat, and last weekend's 5 - 1 FA
Cup rout of Manchester
City.
City has 2
League cup semi final
games and a possible final all of which will drain them.
Our season in
league is over, FA
cup was disaster not to mention mickey mouse and for god sake another
city game they trashed us and humiliated.
As we enter the crucial run in to the end of the season, which is the time that we traditionally up our
game to reach the Champions
League positions, we also have another big advantage in that all of the five teams above us are still in the Champions
League and Man United,
City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still in the FA
Cup, and are set to face some very tough
games in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do well.
Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man
City just four days after being embarrassed in the
League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one
League game all season.
After a gruelling run of Premier
League games, Arsene Wenger can at last give some Arsenal first team players a much - needed rest as we travel to the
City ground to take on Nottingham Forest in the Third Round of the FA
Cup.
The Gunners are away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich
City winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek
games against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL
cup final at Wembley and after their Europa
League involvement then we can hope for an FA
cup upset.
If you believe that as manager Arsene Wenger is not responsible for Arsenal being 33 points behind
city with eight
games to go and is not responsible for Arsenal not turning up at the
league cup final and is not responsible for Arsenal being humiliated by Forest in the 3rd round of the FA
cup then there is something seriously wrong there.
The Gunners have lost 6 of their last 8 matches, including the Carabao
Cup final against Manchester
City, the return match in Europa
League's Round of 32 against Östersunds FK and last Sunday's Premier
League away
game against Brighton & Hove Albion.
Now Arsene Wenger and the players must make sure that this is a blip and not the way our fortunes will pan out, because before the next break we have EPL
games against Everton away, Swansea at home and Man
City away as well as the Carabao
Cup game and the Europa
League double header with Red Star Belgrade.
He has played 13
games for Hull
City this season so even though Hayden has not started for them since they were beaten by Man
City in the
League cup at the start of December, he should be match fit and ready to step in should Arsene Wenger need to call on him.
The Premier
League schedule is a little out of whack now since
games had to be postponed for FA
Cup and
League Cup, so Man
City and Stoke
City already played their Week 28 matchup on Wednesday (ended in draw at +605 odds).
The summer before that we struggled to a draw and a loss in the Emirates
Cup, played well to beat Man
City in the final pre-season
game and then lost to Aston Villa at home in the first Premier
League game.
Ooooooooo Haaaaaaahaaaaah!!!!!! i m really really happy guys because all the premier
league big boys lost their
games at their own stadium few minutes earlier in fa
cup against small teams... it has really made my day and m very happy... chelsea lost 4 - 2 vs bradford at bridge man
city lost 2 - 0 vs middlesborough at etihad southampton lost 3 - 2 vs our sanogo's crystal palace at saint mary's and lastly tottenham also losf at white hart lane vs leicester 2 - 0... I hope liverpool also lose today vs bolton at their own turf anfield in later match that would be something amazing guys all top teams gonna be out with our team hopefully tomorrow we will see off brighton and win the fa
cup again and retain the
cup and I think we r now favourites to win fa
cup INSHAA ALLAH tis season again..
City have lost one
game in the
League, one
game in the Champions
League, one in the FA
Cup, so perhaps they will lose one in the
League Cup as well, TODAY!!!!
Arsenal have lost back - to - back
games against Manchester
City in the Carabao
Cup final and the Premier
League, both by a scoreline of 3 - 0 after being thoroughly outplayed on both occasions.
We only started playing any of our first team players in the semi-final of the
League Cup, and hardly any of them have played in the Europa
League yet, so we have very little reason for tiredness, compared to
City who have played in the
League Cup, the FA
Cup and the Champions
League in between
League games, but still beat Chelsea today.
Arsenal have already got through to the next round of the FA
cup without the Spaniard at right back, although it was a much harder
game against Preston North End than we would have liked, and there is good reason to expect us to do the same away to Swansea
City in the Premier
League this weekend.
Unless you are the pitiably naive TY from Arsenal Fan TV or have recently been committed for mental problems, you can not possibly think this team will win the
League Cup or acquit themselves well in the City league
League Cup or acquit themselves well in the
City leagueleague game.
Mourinho's side are winless in their last three
games, losing to Bristol
City in a Carabao
Cup shock result before drawing two Premier
League games in a row against Leicester
City and Burnley.
We have a little run of
games that should see us into the top four and in touch with the top, and also perhaps into the next round of the Europa
League and the Carabao
Cup before the trip to Man
City at the start of next month.
Their only real success so far this season as come in the
League Cup, where they've beaten Middlesbrough on penalties, and Swansea
City — with Mario Balotelli even managing to get his name on the scoresheet in the latter
game.
Now, he is no stranger to this position, he played there even for Arsenal in two
league cup games although one of them was against Coventry
City if I am not mistaken.
And with a trip to Manchester United next up in the
league for Arsenal (after
cup games against Hull
City and Barcelona), the hosts will be going all out to secure all three points, just as they did when the sides last met at King Power Stadium last year, with Arsenal running out 5 - 2 winners.
And just in case the first team players that are likely to be in the starting line - up to face West Brom on Monday were thinking it might be an easy
game after the tough trip to face the reigning Premier
League champions Chelsea last time out, Arsene Wenger can get them to watch the Carabao
Cup game between the Baggies and Man
City.
Looks like the home
game against Man
City could go to the last
game of the season with the possibility of either being involved in the
League Cup Final.
With the Blues drawing with Burnley last weekend and playing against Tottenham Hotspur in today's Capital One
Cup final,
City had a real chance to pile some pressure on the current leaders, who can now make it an eight point lead if they win their next
league game.
United ended the year with a four -
game winless streak in all competitions, which included getting knocked out of the
League Cup by Bristol
City and draws with Leicester
City, Burnley and Southampton.
He would miss Man
City on Sunday, Brighton in the FA
cup next weekend and then Premier
League games against Aston Villa, Tottenham and Leicester City and the 5th round of the cup if we qualify and Crystal Palace in the league, which would take us about to his com
League games against Aston Villa, Tottenham and Leicester
City and the 5th round of the
cup if we qualify and Crystal Palace in the
league, which would take us about to his com
league, which would take us about to his comeback.
12 April 2016:
City plays Champions
League QF, while Arsenal rests 16 April 2016:
City vs Chelsea (away), Arsenal vs Crystal Palace (home) 23 April 2016: both
City and Arsenal play FA
Cup semi final (rescheduled
games:
City vs Stoke
City, Arsenal vs Sunderland) 30 April 2016:
City vs Southampton (away), Arsenal vs Norwich (home) 3 May 2016, delayed
games:
City vs Stoke
City (home), Arsenal vs Sunderland (away) 7 May 2016:
City vs Arsenal (Etihad stadium) 15 May 2016:
City vs Swansea (away), Arsenal vs Aston Villa (home)
It is not just in the FA
cup where this ban could work in our favour though, as the Northern Ireland international is also set to miss some big Premier
League games, including Tottenham, Villa and Man
City at Old Trafford and Liverpool and Chelsea away.
Hull
City are flying high at the top of the Championship, and with Steve Bruce's policy of only playing his reserve team in
Cup games they have also done very well, having played in five rounds in the
League Cup, even beating Leicester
City on penalties before succumbing to Man
City at the Etihad, and also making it through to the fifth round of the FA
Cup.
After last night's opening Champions
League games, all the talk on Arsenal websites is about our meeting with Barcelona next Tuesday, but first of all we have the small matter of a fifth round FA
Cup tie against Hull
City coming up.
It must make it worse for the Ox that the side he left has gone from strength to strength (go with me on this guys) since his transfer while his new club have yet to win a
game since and were just knocked out of the
League cup by a second string Leicester
City.
The really serious test of how the Arsenal defence is going to be able to cope with the absence of our Wprld
Cup winning Germany international Shkodran Mustafi is not likely to come until the Premier
League game away to the current leaders Manchester
City on November 5th.
Our BFG did not play in the Carabao
Cup game against Norwich
City on Tuesday either, so it seems clear that Arsene Wenger was keeping the aging centre back fresh in case we needed him for the visit of Swansea
City in the Premier
League this weekend.
«Oh we do like to moan beside the Emirates» should perhaps be the theme tune of Tony Pulis, who has not only lost every time he has come to play Arsenal with his current club West Bromwich Albion, but in all of the
games when he was the boss at Stoke
City as well, making 10 Premier
League games and a
cup loss for the Welsh manager at the home of the mighty Gunners.
By season's end
City had been involved in the Premier
League's top four
games for pass completion, including the opening - day 3 - 0 romp at West Brom and this efficient dismissal of Watford — a freshly promoted, improved version of the team who had raced into a 2 - 0 lead in an FA
Cup game at the Etihad just seven months previously.
Defeats to Watford in the FA
Cup and Barcelona in Europe leave the Londoners with just the Premier
League to play for, and they have 11 points to make up on leaders Leicester
City - albeit with a
game in hand.
Their most recent match was in this season
League cup, where Manchester
City were won by 1 - 4 goals in away
games.
And despite sustaining an ankle injury, Alexis Sanchez has decided to represent his country in a World
Cup qualifier against Argentina which could aggravate the injury and eventually missing some crucial
games, including the Premier
League game against top four rivals Man
City and the FA
Cup semi-final against the same opponent which is their last hope of winning a trophy to salvage their season.
Apart from one EFL
Cup tie against Bristol
City they play as many as 6 premier
league games starting with home match against Manchester
City.
I was at the
City v Arsenal
league cup game that he scored in.
The former Exeter
City youngster has enjoyed some
game time this season in the EFL
Cup but his appearance against Huddersfield was the first time he played in the Premier
League, and it goes to show the trust Chelsea have in him at a tender age.
City have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the
game, but with their last match being just 48 hours ago, Paul Tisdale could well rotate his squad to keep players fresh - especially with an FA
Cup third round tie against Premier
League West Brom coming this weekend.
In the first round of the EFL
Cup this season they were drawn at home to
League One Bradford
City, and the
game ended goalless after extra-time and went to a penalty shoot - out.