Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli has been assigned by UEFA to officiate the European
Cup game between Atlético Madrid and Barcelona at the Vicente Calderón stadium, with a spot in the semifinals at stake.
I watched most of the FA
cup game between Chelsea and Man City ladies yesterday.
Serbia's Milorad Mažić will officiate the UEFA Super
Cup game between Real Madrid and Sevilla in Trondheim, the first UEFA final of the Serbian referee's career.
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.
The first thing to say about the decision to move the FA
cup game between Arsenal and Manchester United to a MOnday night is that it is another clear sign of how the TV companies and the money they bring to the game are now all important, with the hard working and long suffering fans way down the list.
Not exact matches
Before that clash with Chelsea Arsenal have two very winnable EPL
games at home to Burnley and Watford with the FA
cup fourth round in
between and these
games should give more than enough time for Coquelin, Gibbs and Bellerin to get fully up to speed.
As excited as we all are for the start of the World
Cup between Brazil and Croatia on Thursday, maybe we're all a little ahead of ourselves and the
game has already been played?
We played Cambridge 2s in a BUCS league match in the second week of term and lost 6 - 0, we then drew them in the second round of the BUCS
cup and lost 3 - 1, holding them at 1 - 1 for much of the
game before conceding two late goals — I think the contrast
between these two results (and the performances) is a testament to our hard work on and off the pitch and gives us a lot to be optimistic about looking forward to next term.
Liverpool has 2 less league
games to play and is not in the FA
Cup so 3 less
games so naturally a lot more space
between games.
Excluding penalty shoot - out defeats, Chelsea are unbeaten in 21 FA
Cup games, only one side has ever gone longer without defeat in the competition: Blackburn Rovers
between October 1883 and November 1886 (23
games).
West Bromwich Albion and Gateshead have confirmed their team selections for the FA
Cup third round tie
between the two sides at the Hawthorns in what will be new Baggies coach Tony Pulis» first
game in charge.
Obviously with Ospina injured Wenger will have to choose
between Cech and Macey, and I think he will go with the youngster for the League
Cup games.
Just chose Sunderland
game, cause of rest time in -
between games... Quite a few players might require some rest with us playing 3
games in 8 days before the FA
cup final.
Arsene Wenger is unhappy with the timing of Arsenal's FA
Cup semi-final schedule on Saturday evening, which clashes with this weekend's big Premier League
game between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
Aside from the FA
cup match on December 4th, we have at least 7 days rest
between games the rest of the month, which will only bode well as we get players back from injury into both match fitness and back into form.
The
game between Arsenal and Chelsea is the main talking point from the Premier League weekend, unsurprisingly, or more specifically the controversy surrounding Diego Costa, Koscielny, Gabriel and the myopic referee Mike Dean and his assistants that just happened to be making a
cup of tea or something when it all kicked off.
Arsene Wenger has made it an Arsenal tradition that his reserve goalkeeper who plays in the FA
Cup games, even if it is a semi-final or Final, and this years demotion meant that Wojciech Szczesny was
between the sticks against Reading yesterday.
So
game time is just 24 hours away, and to start off the buildup, let us look at the stats regarding this FA
Cup tie
between Southampton and Arsenal.
We will turn our full focus on Man Utd for the FA
Cup Q / final
game between the RedDevils and the Gunners at Old Traford on Monday's night.
After that, however, the question of who will be our next choice
between the sticks, and perhaps this will involve the Champions League
games as well as the FA
cup and Capital One
cup competitions, is much harder to predict.
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.
holding like many other players will have the chance to play many
games, we all know it, s a long season so
between players, s injuries, fatigue, loss of form, league
games,
cup games, cl
games, we need a fully fit squad, by the way our bench didn, t look too shabby yesterday!!
The fact we had FA
Cup between our last prem
game and Villa feels a little bit like a momentum killer.
the Leicester
game was not, as you suggest,
between the last 16 Europa League double header, it is the weekend after the second leg of the Europa
Cup round!
There is only four points
between the top four so every
game is a
cup final to Bruce at the moment.
This is a mini World
Cup game to watch
between 2 opposing Gladiators and Kaiser Franz Bekenbeure will be in attendance along with Bayern Munich partisan crowd to see who will carry the day.
So now we've seen what a fight in a Stanley
Cup Final
between two of the
game's biggest superstars looks like in 2017.
I would be inclined to let him stay in the squad and have him play in the Europer and domestic
cups as well as a few epl
games and set a target of 20 to 30
games for the season with adequate recovery time
between matches.
It might seem a little unfair on our replacement keeper David Ospina, as the Colombian international has not conceded a single goal in those
games against Hull City and Stoke City and has only just been given his own chance after recovering from the injury he brought with him to Arsenal from the World
Cup finals, but it sounds like Arsene Wenger is really trying to build a strong competitive spirit
between his two main shot stoppers.
The world
cup game in Brazil could be a perfect example to illustrate my point, here: In the match
between Spain and Netherlands, Van Gaal had setup his Dutch side in the 3 -4-1-2 system, and relied solely on counter-attacking against a Spain side known to favor tiki - taka, over any other Footballing philosophy.
Anyone know what our record is against the top 3 finishing teams in the league in the last 10 years
between league
games, fa
cup games and champ league..
I also made the mistake in thinking that the Fa
cup replay
between West Ham and Utd was before this weekend's
games, but unfortunately it's after... on the 13th of April.
Players earning 100k + are expected to be able to play 3
games at the highest level THREE times in 8 days throughout the whole season.This accounts for European
games sandwiched
between league
games, all off which are supposed to be played like they're
cup finals with the best players.
I think a large part of BFG's bad form was overwork
between playing every
game the past season and most of the World
Cup games.
But reading
between the lines and knowing that Arsene Wenger likes to use the domestic
cup games to give playing opportunities to the fringe players in the squad, it looks like we are going to get our first look at what the January signing Gabriel Paulist is all about this weekend.
While Subban said following
Game 3 of the Stanley
Cup Final that Crosby told him his breath smelled bad, a hilariously juvenile jab
between NHL superstars, Crosby is now claiming the whole story is made up.
In 1984 Dutch goalkeeper Erik Jongbloed, son of Holland's World
Cup keeper Jan Jongbloed, was tragically killed when he was struck by lightning during a four - tier
game between Amsterdamsche Football Club Door Wilskracht Sterk (DWS) and VV Rood - Wit.
With both teams having nothing to play for, this
game on Saturday lunch - time
between the Hammers and Spurs is simply for bragging rights, with Sam Allardyce's men recording two wins over the North London side this season; a 3 - 0 victory in the league at White Hart Lane, and a 2 - 1 win in the Capital One
Cup quarter - final.
United were 2 - 0 winners over Arsenal in 2011, the last FA
Cup meeting
between he sides since the 2005 final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, which the Gunners won in a penalty shoot - out after the
game finished goalless.
Due to the EFL
Cup and FA
Cup, the number of league
games played by Premier League clubs varies
between Manchester United and Southampton on 26, and a few teams like ourselves on 29.
After Van Gaal took charge in 2014, Rafael started six straight Premier League
games between September and October, but following an injury that kept him out for two months, he would make Van Gaal's starting lineup just once more, for an FA
Cup tie at Yeovil the following January.
While there was less than 18,000 watching the first
game between these in the FA
Cup a week or so ago, any fans turning up at Turf Moor in midweek to see the replay will be hoping for more of a spectacle this time around.
Tension
between manager Rafa Benitez and owner Mike Ashley keeps growing, and Newcastle's pointless start after two leagues
games was consolidated with a loss to Nottingham Forrest in the EFL
Cup.
Last week we found another Africa
Cup of Nations winner with the sure fire tip of under 2.5 goals in the
game between Ghana and Mali and also the coolness of Alexis Sanchez paid off for us as his last - minute penalty against Burnley found us an anytime goalscorer winner in the Premier League.
He was the inspiration for both the FA
Cup and the annual fixture
between England and Scotland, these two events sparked a huge interest in the
game and it spread quickly, firstly through Britain, followed by Europe, Africa and then to South America and beyond.
«But we need competition for places because we want to go as far as we can in the
cup competitions and we need to perform in the league, so there is going to be anywhere
between 38 and 45
games and we need a good squad.
This will be the fifth
game between the two of these this season alone and each of the other four (two league, one Community Shield and the EFL
Cup semi-final first leg) all ended in a draw at 90 minutes.
MATCH FACTS The eight European
Cup / Champions League encounters
between Real Madrid and Manchester Utd have produced 31 goals (3.9 /
game).
The eight European
Cup / Champions League encounters
between Real Madrid and Manchester Utd have produced 31 goals (3.9 /
game).
Especially when players and teams have anywhere
between 37 and 50
games left, including
cups, to rectify mistakes, build chemistry and become comfortable playing together.