It's been an impressive defensive effort from them and what could help them at the King Power on Sunday is that West Ham had to get in an extra FA
Cup replay in midweek.
Millwall had the annoyance of an FA
Cup replay in midweek to deal with and then it's straight back into league action on Friday night as well as they take on promotion - chasing Bluebirds.
The Terriers had to battle through an FA
Cup replay in midweek which could leave them a little short for this important league game.
The Lions had to do battle with Rochdale in an FA
Cup replay in midweek which may have taken something out of them ahead of this fixture.
Chelsea are starting to look as if they need a break, but they had to endure an FA
Cup replay in midweek against Norwich which they didn't want.
They had to squeeze in an FA
Cup replay in midweek, but they should be competitive still in this one.
Liverpool head to Ewood Park to take on Blackburn in a quarter - final FA
Cup replay in an attempt to save their season after Saturday's defeat to Arsenal seriously dented their Champions League hopes.
I am not suggesting that he will field a weaker team with that FA
cup replay in mind, as securing a Champions League place is more important to Liverpool (he would love the top four to be called the Rodgers trophy believe me).
Not exact matches
I truly believe that Madrid should be stripped of points for this, or they should be big enough to offer a
replay similar to ourselves
in a certain
cup game going back a number of years.
And apparently it could still be happening next week if Wenger can not get his team up to scratch to beat Hull reserves
in the FA
Cup Fifth
replay on Tuesday.
Rooney's side take on Conference side Cambridge United
in their FA
Cup fourth round
replay on Tuesday night, a match the Premier League side would expect to win at a canter, and the England international hopes that he can then lead Man United to Wembley
in May.
Our ability advantage should prove too strong for our opponents regardless of the support the players receive, but the FA
Cup has a way of instilling belief
in the most unlikely opponents, and this weekend alone will have boosted Sutton, with Millwall and most amazingly Lincoln beating Premier League opposition, as well as Huddersfield refusing to bow down to Manchester City, who will have to face a
replay in the coming weeks.
Secondly, Arsenal's defeat to Nottingham Forest
in the FA
Cup could work
in our favour as we are now out of the
Cup we won last year, whereas the Spuds have to play Newport tonight (Wednesday)
in an FA
Cup replay, while our players can have a whole week to recuperate (and celebrate) after the destruction of Everton on Saturday.
After spending weeks on the sidelines with an injury, Liverpool striker Philippe Coutinho made his return
in style, banging
in an early second - half goal to equalize an FA
Cup replay with West Ham United.
Reading won their last visit to Anfield 2 - 1 after extra-time
in an FA
Cup third - round
replay in January 2010.
There was a chance to impress
in the FA
Cup third - round
replay at Leeds on Wednesday night, but — apart from assisting the opening goal
in a 3 - 1 win — he was quiet and replaced by Robin van Persie for the last 20 minutes.
After the 0 - 0 draw at home against Manchester United
in the FA
Cup, Cambridge United bagged themselves a
replay, which will earn the club
in excess of # 1.5 m — and the League Two outfit start will start by sprucing up by their toilets, reports the BBC.
So we have three EPL games against Man United, Swansea and the spuds before the
cup replay and hopefully we will go to Hull
in a great position and with confidence flowing.
A 3 - 0 win over West Ham was sandwiched
in - between another shock
cup exit, this time in the FA Cup to Championship side Bolton, who won a replay 2 - 0 at the Stadium of Lig
cup exit, this time
in the FA
Cup to Championship side Bolton, who won a replay 2 - 0 at the Stadium of Lig
Cup to Championship side Bolton, who won a
replay 2 - 0 at the Stadium of Light.
Kidding, but Son Heung - Min has proven tonight that Tottenham Hotspur can cope without their homegrown hero, with a thunderous strike
in their FA
Cup replay against Leicester City.
Arsenal and Hull City have finally been given the date for the
replay in the 5th round of the FA
cup, after both clubs were involved
in the discussion about when to fit this match into our busy schedules.
As reported by the Daily Express, the Frenchman hit back and declared that he was bored of what seems to him like constant and unfair criticism and maybe the very public support from Steve Bruce, the man who will be
in the opposite dugout to him
in tonight's FA
cup replay, has helped to spark this response.
Tottenham secured a third - round FA
Cup replay with a dramatic late penalty
in a 2 - 2 draw with Leicester City at White Hart Lane on Sunday evening.
They lost 5 - 0 to Manchester City
in an FA
Cup replay last season after a creditable draw
in the first tie.
Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers face off
in an FA
Cup quarter final
replay at Ewood Park on Wednesday evening, with a trip to Wembley to face Aston Villa on offer for the winners.
The legendary son of Anfield believes the flying winger would be much better served simply helping his side win the FA
Cup, by first getting past Blackburn
in their quarter final
replay.
The Foxes have a tough FA
cup replay against the spuds tonight (again extra time would be nice) followed by Stoke and Liverpool
in the league.
Bolton Wanderers have taken a shock lead against Liverpool
in the FA
Cup fourth round
replay, with former Chelsea striker Eidur Gudjohnsen slotting
in the calmest of penalties after Zach Clough went down
in the box.
Having netted late goals
in the draw with Arsenal and the FA
Cup replay win over Exeter, and has started to show signs of his worth to Jurgen Klopp's new set up.
Two seasons ago Liverpool fans wanted to boycott an FA
Cup match against Arsenal citing ticket prices, and ended up with a proposal on a pricing model they said would apply
in the event the match ended
in a draw requiring a
replay at Anfield.
So could this
replay and our continued involvement
in the FA
cup actually boost the chances of the Premier League title?
We are playing a
replay in the FA
Cup because we didn't beat Hull at Home.
So unless we fit the
replay in on the same week that the next round of FA
cup games is due, one of our Premier League games will have to be moved.
There are
replays in the early rounds of the FA
Cup PS.
That was shown again yesterday when after stating that he was not
in favour of scrapping FA
cup replays to ease the fixture congestion of big clubs and then saw his team forced into another unwanted game after being held to a draw by Hull City.
The Anfield club travel to Blackburn on Wednesday evening to for their FA
Cup quarter final
replay,
in a bid to save a season on the brink of disaster.
Having said that, Liverpool are still
in the hunt for a trophy this season, with a Wembley FA
Cup semi-final against Aston Villa for the side which can come out on top
in the
replay.
As an Arsenal fan it is not often that I would not take great pleasure
in any misfortune that came the way of our old rivals Manchester United but rules are there to be broken, as it were, and circumstances dictate that I will be crossing my fingers and hoping that Louis van Gaal and his team get a win this week
in the FA
cup replay.
AW commented on Ozils poor form by
replaying that (Ozil) still has «post World
Cup blues» AW went on to say that some of Ozils international coligues who play for Bayern Munich are still not
in the first eleven because of the» World
Cup syndrome» if this is so why the hell is Ozil starting every game for us?
Arsene Wenger and all the Arsenal fans will be honorary Canaries for the night and if we stop short of donning the tellow and green of Norwich City then we will at least be cheering them on when they travel to the south coast next week to take on Southampton
in a third round FA
cup replay, because whoever wins that match will be Arsenal's opponents
in the fourth round.
Arsenal ended a five - game winless run on Tuesday night by beating Hull City 4 - 0
in an FA
Cup replay at the KC Stadium.
Arsenal have been rewarded for beating Manchester United with a tie against either Bradford or Reading for a place
in the FA
Cup final, while Brendan Rodgers's Liverpool will face Aston Villa, but only if they beat Blackburn Rovers
in the
replay.
And Arsene Wenger was bullish today
in the press conference ahead of the FA
cup replay at Hull, reported by The Mirror, refusing to accept that there is too much to do and insisting that the Gunners will do all they can to win the title.
Got an embarrassing
replay in FA
cup and now down by 2
in 2 mins by a guy that wenger might have signed for nothing.
Even losing to Hull
in the FA
cup replay does not matter.
The Reds face the prospect of crucial back - to - back games
in the next few days, with an FA
Cup quarter - final
replay following their trip to the capital.
Manchester United have taken the lead against Cambridge United
in their FA
Cup fourth round
replay through Juan Mata, yet credit must go to Patrick McNair for his vision
in the buildup.
It's a shame that some of the Gunners who played tonight might not get too many more chances
in the first team, which these
cup games are great for, but they also throw up more games and possible
replays in a hectic schedule.
He recently starred against Cambridge United
in an FA
Cup replay by helping to set up his side's first goal and said he is relishing his time
in the United first team.
If it is not a referee like Mike Dean denying Arsenal two good penalty shouts and forcing us into an FA
cup replay that we could really do without, it is a Champions League draw throwing us up against one of the big favourites Bayern Munich
in the group stage and then the only team worse than the Germans
in the knockout stage.