Steaua Bucharest's Helmuth Duckadam scored his only goal for the club from the penalty spot in during Romania's domestic
Cup competition against AFC Progresul Bucharest.
A number of sub-par displays have seen them crash out of
both cup competitions against what should have been easy opposition, and they look sure to lose the Premier League to either Leicester City or their north London rivals Tottenham.
Not exact matches
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She has competed in the Pol Roger varsity wine tasting
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Arsenal had won their last 9 games
against Watford at home up until last season when the Hornets arrived for an FA
Cup match (a
competition that we hadn't lost a game in for 3 seasons) but we let our North London neighbours bully our stars off the ball and surprisingly lost the game 2 - 1 after going 2 - 0 down.
People get too cocky and we end up being embarrassed or run close
against so called weaker teams in
cup competitions..
He added that the
competition in this country is also greater, meaning even
cup ties
against lower - league outfits can not be taken lightly.
We beat them again in the
Cup last season and today we are aiming for a quick - fire hat - trick of wins
against Hull in this
competition.
I think that all our injury problems as well as having all the extra games from the Champions League and FA
cup competitions had really taken it out of the players and we generally looked a lot fresher
against Liverpool.
The two clubs are the most successful in FA
Cup history, with eleven wins each, and will continue their rivalry on Monday, as they face off
against each other for the fifteenth time in the
competition, with the Gunners having won five of those previous meetings, while United have claimed seven victories.
Despite being drawn at home for this FA
Cup tie, Middlesborough will be feeling pretty hard done by as they'll be facing off
against Manchester City of all teams as they compete to try and secure a place in the semi-finals of the domestic
competition.
By Sunday he was good enough to win an informal race
against competition that included Gene Walet, twice the Mallory
Cup winner and up to this point again the favorite.
The North London outfit are in excellent form ahead of the meeting at the weekend having won their last eight in a row in the league and nine in all
competitions after booking a place in the FA
Cup final with victory
against Reading last Saturday.
Your a long time passionate fan Ivan but you may have just missed or maybe not, the greatest night at Highbury when we came back from 3 - 1 first leg deficit
against Anderlecht to beat them 4 - 3 on aggregate to win the Inter Cities Fairs
Cup (Eufa
Cup) when it really was a top
competition.
5) Bolster the defence Spurs have kept only three clean sheets in their last 21 games in all
competitions — two
against strugglers Burnley and West Bromwich Albion in the league, and the other versus League One outfit Sheffield United in the League
Cup.
Reading's only previous win in all
competitions against Manchester United was 2 - 1 at home in the FA
Cup in January 1927.
«Everybody will remember where they were, what they were doing or how they celebrated the
cup win
against Hull last season, but Hull will want their revenge on Sunday — and knocking us out of the
competition would make up for the defeat in the final.»
We also seemed to get the worst possible outcome every time there was a draw made for the Champions League or one of the domestic
cup competitions, but that changed last year as the injury crisis gradually cleared up and we got some decent
cup draws, even though we failed to make the most of this
against Monaco.
Arsenal can be proud of their record in
cup competitions, as seen in the stat above, but they'll now face a very difficult task when going up
against Pep Guardiola's Man City in the final next month.
The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were
against very poor opposition in the
cup competitions.
(The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were
against very poor opposition in the
cup competitions.)
Arsenal have had a few previous cases of embarrassment in the
cup competitions, most notably
against Bradford.
Claude Puel's men have just beaten Liverpool to reach the League
Cup Final in February and in fact have won 4 out of their last 5 games in all
competitions (and have won their last three at home too) so may be confident of getting another result
against us at St Marys.
Well if Arsenal do end up being on the wrong end of one of the biggest upsets ever in the long history of football's oldest
cup competition then Arsene Wenger will have a lot of questions to answer over his team selection for this evening's away tie
against Sutton United.
He had a bad game
against Chile, therefore he deserved to be dropped and from my understanding the German coach carried other players to look at in this tournament, so its going to be a hell of a
competition for world
cup place in all positions for German, even our Ozil may not make it into the squad
High pressure games are games
against top clubs or in
cup competitions rounds like Quarter finals and above
against rivals that measure up in quality or have more quality than we do.
I hope wenger does not take it as MICKEY MOUSE
CUP VERSION - 2 and keep playing the kids coz we may be really embarrassed in the knockout stages in europe, especially
against the likes of the above mentioned teams and a.c.milan, lazio etc... who are in a descent form in this
competition so far...
Arsene Wenger has often used the domestic
cup competitions to give some up and coming young players their first taste of Arsenal first team action, but the Frenchman has generally done this in the early rounds so an FA
cup quarter final
against a Premier League team like Watford would not normally see a young Gunner make their debut.
Arsene Wenger has already let the Arsenal fans know that he is not making this quarter - final Carabao
Cup clash
against West Ham any more of a priority than he normally does, and is planning to play a mixture of youth and fringe players even though this
competition is probably our best chance of a trophy this season.
As a result, City move back to within three points of Arsenal, while their focus switches to
cup competitions next week with a League Cup outing against Everton on Wednesday night before a trip to Norwich City in the FA Cup next Saturd
cup competitions next week with a League
Cup outing against Everton on Wednesday night before a trip to Norwich City in the FA Cup next Saturd
Cup outing
against Everton on Wednesday night before a trip to Norwich City in the FA
Cup next Saturd
Cup next Saturday.
The dramatic late goal
against Southampton won Manchester United the EFL
cup final and made it 26 goals already in all
competitions in his debut season with United, so Arsenal fans can only wonder what might have been.
The Chilean enjoyed a superb debut year with the Gunners after signing from La Liga giants Barcelona last summer and went on to score 25 goals in all
competitions, including a brilliant strike in the FA
Cup final
against Aston Villa last month.
was great to see crowely training with the first team today wont be long until he gets a game, maybe f / a
cup next round or
against villa lol, he will be fighting with zelalem next season for spot in the midfield, great to see
competition coming through, and always great to see we stick to our philosophy and not waver in the face of financially doped teams.
Arsenal are not the only Premier League club that was handed a tie
against lower league opposition for the next round of the Carabao
cup, as there are five teams from the Championship among the 16 sides left in the
competition and they have been spread around.
If Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players were slipping into any kind of a complacent frame of mind ahead of the fifth round FA
cup tie
against the lowest ranked team still in the famous ould
cup competition, then the shock result o9f Lincoln City today should knock it out of them.
While some may turn their noses up at a striker firing in the goals in League One, it is worth remembering that Afobe also has six goals in just four League
Cup games this season, including a superb brace
against none other than Manchester United in THAT 4 - 0 win in the second round of the
competition.
The final of England's greatest
cup competition, the FA Cup, takes place this Saturday with the Gunners facing a tough test against the Premier League Champions, Chels
cup competition, the FA
Cup, takes place this Saturday with the Gunners facing a tough test against the Premier League Champions, Chels
Cup, takes place this Saturday with the Gunners facing a tough test
against the Premier League Champions, Chelsea.
Amazingly Arsene Wenger made TEN changes to the Arsenal side that fought for 98 minutes
against Burnley last weekend, but the accusation that Wenger picks schoolboys to play in the
Cup competitions has been blown out of the water today.
Podolski scored 17 times and provided 10 assists for Galatasaray in all
competitions last season including the winning goal in the Turkish
Cup final
against arch rivals Fenerbahce.
We have also started to turn on the style of late, scoring 20 goals and conceding just four in our last eight matches in all
competitions, while the Welsh club is coming to London desperate to turnaround their own early season fortune, with their only two wins of the season so far being distant memories from August,
against Burnley on the opening day and then Peterborough in the EFL
cup.
It was much kinder to him last season though, and the Frenchman must be very glad that he was recalled from the loan spell at Charlton before they could use him in the
competition, because he went on to play in all five of Arsenal's
cup games including a brilliant performance from the start in the final
against Aston Villa.
Neither of those starts have been in the Premier League of FA
cup either, the two
competitions that Arsenal still have a chance of winning, unless you believe that we can produce the miracle of miracles
against Barcelona at the Nou Camp next week.
The Doc steered his «diamonds» to three successive FA
Cup semi-finals in the mid-Sixties, culminating in a famous win
against Leeds in 1967 and the club's first appearance in the final of the
competition since 1915.
Only time will provide a fair reflection as to how far they have come in these four months — when they are asked to defend the FA
Cup against the best team left in the
competition in their own backyard.
Arsene Wenger's side march on in three
competitions, a third successive FA
Cup still a possibility, but even during this victory
against Burnley, their confidence was lacking.
Marco Amelia nodded home a freekick for Liverno
against Partizan Belgrade during the 2006/07 UEFA
Cup competition.
A fortnight after this semi-final, Wednesday were playing
against Arsenal in the League
Cup final (sponsored by Coca - Cola at the time giving it the most alliteratively titled cup competitio
Cup final (sponsored by Coca - Cola at the time giving it the most alliteratively titled
cup competitio
cup competition).
The striker suffered a hamstring injury in the United States opening match
against Ghana in the 2014 FIFA World
Cup Brazil, ruining his
competition.
United and Benfica have storied histories in this
competition with arguably United's 4 - 1 win
against a Eusebio - led Benfica in 1968 - the most memorable, making Manchester United the first English club to win the European
Cup.
Arsenal fans chose Ozil as their man of the match in Saturday's FA
Cup final
against Aston Villa as the Gunners won the
competition for a record 12th time.