All three players missed the midweek FA
Cup replay win over Sunderland due to minor knocks but are expected to pass late fitness tests for the Emirates Stadium clash.
The highly - rated 20 - year - old made his first - team debut in the FA
Cup replay win over Plymouth in January and...
However, Arsenal are not yet guaranteed to finish in the top four, especially after the fifth placed team Man United and their under pressure manager Louis van Gaal got a timely boost with an FA
cup replay win at West Ham last night and a semi-final against Everton at Wembley nine days from now.
The banner that some travelling Arsenal fans held up during the FA
cup replay win at Hull City has really been taken up by the football press and even though Arsene Wenger keeps dismissing all the rumours he can not fail to notice that there is a growing feeling that the banner was right.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
«If the Gunners
win tonight's fifth - round
replay at Hull, they will be just three
wins away from lifting a third successive FA
Cup.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two of the three previous meetings ended in dismal 1 -1 draws with Everton
winning 2 -0 in the FA
Cup replay at Sunderland.
Manchester United in fairness haven't really had to exit 2nd gear in their FA
Cup campaign thus far this season with the exception possibly being at Upton Park where it took a late, late Robin Van Persie equaliser to send the tie to a
replay, since then there have been routine
wins over West Ham at Old Trafford, Fulham and latterly Reading with Nani particularly impressing in that fixture.
We also
won the return league fixture at Upton Park, as well as drawing at Anfield in the FA
Cup, then beating them after extra-time in the
replay.
They did
win an FA
Cup replay at home against the Swans in January of 2013, also 1 - 0, thanks to a late Jack Wilshere goal.
KEY FACT: Swansea's last
win over Spurs was a 1 - 0 League
Cup victory in 1991 MATCH ODDS: Swansea 13/2 Draw 16/5 Spurs 4/9 bet365 Pick: Spurs to
win & Under 2.5 goals @ 12/5 GRAEME SAYS: Spurs are surely getting sick of
replays, but they may need another one... 2 - 2
Of course, if United make it to the quarter - final of the UEFA Champions League, it could add two more matches, and embarking into the next round of the FA
Cup, should United beat Birmingham City or Huddersfield Town, whoever
wins the
replay, will add another but not enough to reach 200 this season.
It was followed up by a Lancashire County
Cup success,
winning a
replay 3 - 0 against Manchester United in the final, and then a young Burnley team travelled to the North East and
won a youth tournament against Sheffield United, Sunderland, West Ham, Standard Liege, Offenbach Kickers and Dunkirk.
Wednesday's FA
Cup 4th round
replay against Bolton Wanderers was Steven Gerrard's 700th LFC game, and a
win would put us into the next round against Crystal Palace.
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.
Sean Scannell's goal gives Huddersfield a shock 2 - 1
win over Leicester in their FA
Cup replay tie and sets up a meeting for the Terriers with Wigan
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.
However, the last time that these two met in the FA
Cup was back in the 2006/07 season and they drew at St Andrews in the first attempt and then Birmingham
won the
replay 5 - 1 back at St James Park.
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.
Sean Scannell's goal gives Huddersfield a shock 2 - 1
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Manchester United have been eliminated from three of their last four FA
Cup quarter - finals, progressing only in 2015/16 against West Ham after a
replay; they haven't
won a quarter - final without the need of a
replay since 2010/11 against Arsenal.
There have been two previous FA
Cup replays contested between these two and Liverpool
won through on both of those occasions too (Round 3 in 1950 and 1991).
Matt Ritchie's double and Yoann Gouffran's strike are enough for Newcastle to
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The only
win Klopp's side managed this year was in an FA
Cup replay against fourth - tier Plymouth Argyle, with defeats to relegation strugglers Swansea City and Hull City over the past few weeks at home.
Liverpool have
won just once in the last eight competitive fixtures - an FA
Cup replay against Plymouth earlier in the month.
They drew their last Premier League game 1 - 1 at Leicester last week but they go into the game full of confidence after
winning through to the 5th round of the FA
Cup with a big 8 - 1
win against Notts County in a 4th round
replay this week.
Bet on a lower league team to
win their FA
Cup Third Round Tie and if they draw, get a free bet on them to
win the
replay!
His most influential performance was the FA
Cup replay against Swansea, in which Arsenal
won 1 - 0 to progress to the 4th round.
Arsenal managed to cope without these players in the FA
Cup replay against Orient, but their absence was largely felt in the stalemate against Sunderland, as the Gunners were denied a
win by dubious referee decisions and a complete lack of creativity in the first sixty minutes of the game.
First, the reverse fixture was
won; the Citizens» young squad crumbling as 19 year old trainee Carl Madrick bagged the winner, while in the FA
Cup, the Terriers took the Mancunians to a second
replay before finally succumbing 3 - 0.
A perfect hat - trick from Fernando Llorente helped us to a resounding FA
Cup fifth round
replay win against Rochdale at a snowy Wembley Stadium on Wednesday evening — but that doesn't begin to tell the story of a crazy game!
Chris Hughton's Blues are flying at the minute,
winning their last four matches on the spin which inludes a 1 - 0
win away to Midlands rivals Wolves in their third round FA
Cup replay.
Their response was to thumped Dagenham 5 - 0 in their FA
Cup third round
replay, also at The Den, before going to Barnsley in the league and
winning 3 - 1.
LONDON: Swansea racked up the biggest FA
Cup win in their history as Tammy Abraham and Nathan Dyer inspired an 8 - 1 thrashing of Notts County in Tuesday's fourth round
replay.
Chelsea have lost only two of their last 18
replays in the FA
Cup;
winning 13.