Chelsea face - off against Norwich City in the third - round FA
Cup replay on Wednesday, and should they progress, they could face the prospect of playing 19 matches in the next 70 days.
Swansea struggled past Sheffield Wednesday in their FA
Cup replay on Tuesday, before their clash with West Ham this weekend.
Not exact matches
Ninety - six Liverpool fans died after a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium
on 15 April 1989, ahead of an FA
Cup semi-final
replay between the Reds and Nottingham Forest.
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.
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.
Ahead of Liverpool's FA
Cup replay against Championship side Blackburn Rovers
on Wednesday night, manager Brendan Rodgers has urged his players to recapture the creativity which saw them put together a 13 game unbeaten Premier League run.
Perhaps Louis van Gaal just can't accept the fact that Darren Fletcher has left Manchester United after the manager almost named the outgoing midfielder
on the bench for his side's FA
Cup replay against Cambridge United...
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.
But Hull are at home of course and they also have the advantage of two extra days to rest and prepare as their game prior to the
cup replay is
on the Thursday.
And depending
on the result at White Hart Lane, the FA
cup replay with Hull City could become even more crucial as it could by then represent our last best hope of a trophy this season.
Our next game is at home to Burnley
on Sunday and although they are doing pretty well it is almost exclusively at home and they also have an FA
cup replay to get through this week.
BUt there is nothing we can do about that and so the Gunners just need to focus
on our own form and results, starting with a
replay of our FA
cup exit of a few weeks ago.
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.
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.
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.
The main reason, though, is the timing of the game for the early Saturday kick off when they have a massive FA
cup replay against Man United
on Wednesday.
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.
Feb and March have seen Arsenal
on the brink of ECL elimination, facing an away 5th round FA
cup replay and sliding 8 points off the EPL lead.
Harry Kane was
on the bench
on Wednesday night for the FA
Cup replay against Newport, but was not used, so he — and most of those who will represent Spurs tomorrow — will be as fresh as any of the Arsenal players who have a had a full week off since their last game.
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.
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.
Liverpool secured a comfortable 3 - 0 win over Exeter City in their third - round FA
Cup replay at Anfield
on Wednesday night.
The first is also the reason why, even though I want United to win I do not want them to win easily, because their midweek game is the FA
cup replay against West Ham who Arsenal face away in the Premier League
on Saturday.
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.
Liverpool's hectic February schedule continues
on Tuesday when they travel to West Ham for an FA
Cup fourth round
replay ahead of a trip to Aston Villa next weekend.
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.
And with his club in a terrible state and with crushed morale heading into the FA
cup replay away to Blackburn
on Wednesday, Sterling could see his last chance of winning something this season disappear along with any realistic Champions League hopes.
Danny Welbeck may have missed a glorious late chance to level the scores and earn Arsenal an FA
cup replay at Watford but he did score one goal and was still our best player
on the day even though he only played for about 25 minutes.
Its very unfortunate that we have to rely
on teams like WestHam and Southampton to have
replay in FA
cup so that they get tired and drop points, but I agree with you that it is the reality this season.
The Liverpool captain is said to have recovered from a tight hamstring that kept him
on the sidelines against West Ham at the weekend but he is back in contention for the FA
Cup 4th round
replay at Bolton tonight.
He could dominate games and turn matches, and despite being
on the losing side, he was named Man of the Match in the 1981 FA
Cup Final
replay.
West Ham has drawn Blackburn Rovers away in the fifth round of the FA
Cup assuming they overcome Liverpool in the fourth round
replay on 9th February at 7.45 pm under the Boleyn Ground lights.
With England doing the same with matches hasn't San Marino and Montenegro with Wayne Rooney, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck and Michael Carrick all playing a part it will be interesting to see if Sir Alex rotates his team selection to give his international players a rest especially with an FA
Cup Quarter Final
replay at Stamford Bridge
on Monday afternoon.
The relegation - threatened Welsh outfit could not get past the Championship outfit in the FA
Cup, drawing 0 - 0 at Hillsborough, leading to a
replay on Tuesday.
The weekend was forgotten and we looked forward to the
replay of the FA
cup 3rd round at Anfield
on Wednesday.
Burnley have made progress past Sunderland (after a
replay win
on home soil) and then Bristol City at Turf Moor in the FA
Cup this season.
Just over three months later, Toby was back and helping the team to a clean sheet, a 2 - 0 win in the FA
Cup fourth round
replay against Newport and a fifth round date at Rochdale
on 18 February.
But the Reds were
on the road again
on Wednesday, as we headed for a massive game at Ewood Park in our FA
Cup replay against Blackburn Rovers, knowing a win would set us up for a semi-final at Wembley against Aston Villa.
Newcastle are
on a three match winning streak at the moment which includes a 3 - 1 home win over Birmingham in the FA
Cup third round
replay at St James Park.
Theo Walcott has revealed that the Arsenal squad held a players - only meeting behind closed doors prior to the FA
Cup replay against Hull City
on Tuesday.
Barkley, 24, was registered too late to play a part in Wednesday's dramatic FA
Cup third round
replay win over Norwich City following his # 15 million move from Everton, but has been training with the first - team squad at Cobham and scored twice in a behind - closed - doors friendly against QPR
on Thursday.
On that occasion, goals from Stephen Ireland and Darius Vassell earned a 2 - 1 win for Stuart Pearce's squad in an FA
Cup replay after the reverse fixture ended in a 1 - 1 draw nine days earlier.
Wednesday sees us return to FA
Cup action as we take
on Rochdale in our fifth round
replay after the two sides drew 2 - 2 at Spotland in the first game.
Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho are in line to make their returns from injury in Liverpool's FA
Cup fourth - round
replay against West Ham at Upton Park
on Tuesday night.
Lee then made his professional debut for West Ham, as a 78th minute substitute for Ricardo Vaz Tê,
on 16th January 2013 in a 1 — 0 defeat in the FA
Cup 3rd Round
replay at Old Trafford against Manchester United.