He has come through the ranks at Arsenal's Hale End academy and made his first - team debut in October's 3 - 0 League
Cup defeat by Sheffield Wednesday and signed a new contract last year.
Injury kept him out for the whole of the 1997/98 season and he managed just one further appearance in 1998/99; as a second half substitute for Tim Breacker in the third round
cup defeat by third division Swansea.
Many of us Arsenal fans thought we had seen the last of Abou Diaby in an Arsenal shirt as his contract is nearing an end and that one previous appearance this season, in the Capital One
Cup defeat by Southampton in September, was followed by the latest in a ridiculously long string of injury problems.
Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini, 25, and 28 - year - old left - back Leighton Baines will leave Goodison Park this summer as the Toffees look to shake things up following their FA
Cup defeat by Wigan.
It was also sweet revenge for our FA
Cup defeat by the same time just three weeks ago, and Wenger thinks that we dominated both games just as much, but the difference this time was that we actually finished our chances.
Manchester United will step up their bid to sign Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 22, after they failed to score in 120 minutes in the League
Cup defeat by Middlesbrough, according to The Sun.
It might not have quite come for the young Gunner but of all the Arsenal players on the pitch in our EFL
cup defeat by Southampton it was Alex Iwobi who looked the most likely and showed the most desire to actually get something good to happen for Arsenal.
Elneny has got that one goal against Barcelona but in the Premier League he has not really showed that side of his game and he actually had a bit of a shocker in front of goal during the FA
cup defeat by Watford.
Caretaker John Carver, who oversaw the recent Premier League draw with Burnley and the FA
Cup defeat by Leicester, is likely to remain in charge for the remainder of the current campaign.
The Czech midfielder played some excellent football last season and played 39 games in all competitions, but this year has only started in the League
Cup defeat by Southampton, and has been a sub just three times in the League.
Not exact matches
Jonathan Toews # 19 of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates
by hoisting the Stanley
Cup after
defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning
by a score of 2 - 0 in Game Six to win the 2015 NHL Stanley
Cup Final at the United Center on June 15, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.
The Joint Base Lewis - McChord rugby team is hoping to bring back the
cup by defeating the Kitsap Bangors from Bremerton at the 19th annual Pacific Northwest Army - Navy Rugby Championship May 19 at Rainier Field on McChord Field.
But in the FA
Cup it was our first
defeat in three years so you could say
by the law of averages, that we had to lose at some point!
The iconic forward reached the final of the 1974 World
Cup with the Netherlands as they were
defeated by West Gemany.
Form guide: United have built up some momentum in the last two games, beating Shrewsbury Town in the Emirates FA
Cup before reaching the Europa League last 16
by defeating Midtjylland in resounding fashion on Thursday.
It's a dire start for the reigning champions, and Mourinho has found himself under immense pressure — particularly following consecutive league
defeats to West Ham United and Liverpool, as well as the midweek
defeat by Stoke City in the Capital One
Cup.
The Gunners lost Sunday's Carabao
Cup final to the Citizens, before enduring a dismal league
defeat last night
by the same scoreline, and despite some trying to find positives from our displays, our star striker is refusing to seek any.
Arsenal have just been obliterated in the Carabao
Cup final
by a far superior Manchester City in what was one of the worst performances of the season, one of the most humiliating
defeats in the club's history and ultimately a failure.
Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao
Cup by Arsenal after a semi-final
defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League next week.
Wenger doesn't sign anyone in january, we barely manage to beat Monaco 1 - 0 a Emirates and 0 - 0 in Monaco, get smashed in the quarter finals,
defeated by some minor team in quarter finals of the FA
cup as well, end up without a CL spot for next season
The triumph was the perfect response
by the Gunners following the dismal Capital One
Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday in midweek, and Arsene Wenger has every reason to be happy with his troops.
Neville also oversaw a 7 - 0
defeat at the hands of Barcelona in one leg of the Spanish
Cup semi-final, and was eliminated from the Europa League
by Athletic Bilbao.
Shakhter won the UEFA
Cup in 2009, while Dnipro was
defeated in the last UEFA
Cup final
by Sevilla; Porto won the UEFA
Cup in 2011
defeating Braga in the final while Benfica is a two - times runner up in 2013 and 2014; Zenit won the UEFA
Cup too in 2008.
Arsenal are going great guns at the minute, still unbeaten in the Premier League since the first game of the season and with just the EFL
cup loss to Southampton to add to that early
defeat by Liverpool.
Before that, their confidence took a real battering with a string of
defeats, including the one against the Gunners at the Emirates, that culminated in them being dumped out of the Capital One
cup by League one club Sheffield United.
The latter was arguably our greatest shot at success as our title chances fell
by the wayside after consecutive
defeats against Manchester United and Swansea, but another below - key performance blew any chance of Arsenal equalling the
cup record.
Mourinho has played eleven
cup finals in his career and lost only one of them — the 2 - 1
defeat to Atletico Madrid in the Copa Del Rey in his ill - fated final season in charge of Real Madrid,
by which point he had lost the dressing room, a rare occurance in a career in which he has been largely adored
by his players for his winning mentality and superb man - management skills.
It's a difficult thing to solve — even Barcelona experienced a mental car crash this season after their dramatic
defeat by their arch enemies Real Madrid — having gone 39 games undefeated — they lost 3 league games on the trot and went out of the European
Cup!
He was hauled off at half time in United's 3 - 0
defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday — suggesting that calls to introduce him to the national side may be premature — but responded with a goal as the Red Devils saw off West Ham United to reach the FA
Cup semi-final on Tuesday.
Coquelin is a defensive midfielder
by trade but can play as a full back, playing at left - back in Arsenal's 1 - 0 Capital One
Cup defeat to Southampton earlier this season.
He has also lifted the Italian
Cup in 2015, and helped Juventus to the final of the Champions League last season, before they were
defeated 3 - 1
by Barca.
Defeat to Bristol City in the League
Cup was followed
by three consecutive draws in the Premier League to Leicester City, Burnley and Southampton.
The Belgian was replaced
by Brad Jones for Sunday's 3 - 0
defeat against Manchester United, and the Australian will retain his place for Wednesday's Capital One
Cup tie at Bournemouth.
That previous
defeat was a time of real pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players as it left us below the spuds, having been knocked out of both domestic
cups by Bradford and Blackburn and having lost at home to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
While Spurs were
defeated by the Gunners in the Capital One
Cup earlier this year, Mauricio Pochettino's side haven't lost in the league since the opening day, and are unlikely to roll over for their rivals.
The kind of nations, in short, that are
defeated by World
Cup winners.
Totally agree Chris.He is now well past his sell
by date and
defeats like have suffered against Bournemouth and Swansea are not only embarrassing but unforgivable.The results were bad enough but the performances are now all too familiar against theses lower ranked clubs.To expect us supporters to be blinded
by League
Cup Final and only a couple of decent performances so far this season is misjudging our feelings about his position This is a very well educated and intelligent man who can have no doubts about our attitude and utter disgust for him.He has allowed for us to make this personal now and he is deluded if he thinks e can collect another years salary out our expense.He knows his control is slowly being wrestled away from him and that really says it all.Ivan G is taking control and Wenger will be raging inside with this.Did he seriously expect things to continue until he felt it was time to just walk off into the sunset?Well he now knows his time at OUR club is fast running out.The day can't come soon enough for me.
The Irish team of Harry Bradshaw and Christy O'Connor had just staged a stirring finish to win the sixth annual Canada
Cup trophy, and then Bradshaw had been narrowly
defeated in a three - hole, sudden - death playoff for individual honors
by the surprising Angel Miguel of Spain.
Of course Liverpool will, like many other top clubs this summer, be tempted
by approaching the German tactician after he took charge of his final game with Borussia Dortmund yesterday, a 3 - 1
defeat to Wolfsburg in the German
cup final to cap a disappointing season at the Westfalenstadion, but there are signs in recent years that he might not be all he's cracked up to be.
Walking out on a
cup final early is poor saying the things after is poor we have had the most consistancy of any pl club for 20 years it goes bad we lose and we show no honor in
defeat i never mentioned wenger i mentioned the lack of support in a
cup final was sad and
by walking out it showed we've been spoiled city did nt leave the semi early last year when we beat em they did nt leave early wehen they lost in league one and i cant stand city im arsenal through and through we won a
cup last year and the year before were in another
cup final and tempemental fans leave early even though it takes alot to get to a
cup final maybe you need to lose more to lose respectable its hard it sucks but its a
cup final bigger than the management our opinions for a day its about how you show you solidarity as a club win or lose every other club in england would of taken our spot in a heartbeat if they could of and we lea e early that shows spoilage and it was embarrassing to see we need to be stronger as supporters newcastle does nt like ashley yet they still show up and when was the last time they won a
cup?
This Gunners side looks to have lost all confidence after a string of
defeats saw them beaten in the Carabao
Cup final
by Manchester City and winning a place in the Premier League top four this season also looks in serious doubt.
The Three Lions crashed out at the group stages at the 2014 World
Cup as back - to - back
defeats against Italy and Uruguay followed
by a disappointing goalless draw against Costa Rica resulted in an early exit from Brazil without a win and just one point on the board.
Brought in no - one, progressed to the final 8 in the CL to be narrowly
defeated by PSG, won another F.A.
Cup and narrowly missed out on the title to City
by 2 pts?
The Red Devils moved on from their dismal home
defeat to Southampton
by seeing off Derby County in the FA
Cup and Stoke City in the league, before drawing against Chelsea after Diego Costa rescued a late point for the beleaguered champions.
don't you know that the champions league
defeat was a deliberate ploy
by our esteemed coach to get out of the worthless competition so that we can concentrate on our fourth place trophy and the mighty fa
cup.....
Another fact is that it does not matter how much money the board spends in players, WENGER has proven he lost the edge, he's been outsmart
by almost every Manager, from horrendous
defeats against the bigger teams in years past to the loss against Watford in the FA
Cup, WENGER just doesn't have it no more, he must leave PERIOD.
Since his debut in the Capital One
Cup defeat to Southampton, the Colombian international has conceded just one goal and that was a penalty conceded
by Szczesny against Galatasaray.
How often after a
defeat we listen to Arsene Wenger talk about focusing on the next game, well he had three days to focus on what went wrong in the
cup final and more than enough time to correct it, yet against the same opposition the same result, but Arsene Wegner continues to talk about players lacking in confidence, the mental strenght and all the usual excuses made
by Arsene Wegner, so how does the all seeing all knowing wise one explain Wigan Athletic and Liverpool beating Man city, well my advise to Arsene Wegner is if he really understand the word focus he would F --- k — Of ---- Cause — U ---- S --- t. WEGNER OUT.
-- Despite a World
Cup record 16 saves from goalie Tim Howard, the United States was
defeated by Belgium 2 - 1 yesterday in extra time to end their World
Cup run.
I feel that we will improve after we get knocked out of the FA
cup by Burnley and suffer another
defeat from Southampton, thanks to their New Bionic man, Steve Austin who didn't cost 6 billion dollars, man!