Sentences with phrase «cup saw us fail»

Not exact matches

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A penalty - shootout defeat to Stoke City, in which hapless Hazard failed from 12 yards, saw the Blues booted out of the Capital One Cup 48 days earlier.

no sorry its not massively off form... its repeating the kind of form we have been seeing for years now which includes periods of good play, even excellent play, but with persistent weaknesses which wenger has failed to correct due to his own arrogance and the boards greed, and which lead to another empty seasons... oh sorry a welcome cup victory against hull city, replicating the success of wigan, and an amazing triumph in the community shield....

It remains to be seen where Arsenal go from here, of course, and this FA cup quarter - final victory over Lincoln City will not mean a great deal if the Gunners play poorly from now on and fail to win the FA cup or finish in the top four of the Premier League.

If Wolves fail to make it through the play - offs then it will be harder to keep these youngsters and Brian Howard, having now had a taste of the big - time in their fabulous cup run, may seek an even bigger pay packet in the Premier League or indeed he may just see a move to the top tier simply a more ambitious move regardless of salary and I don't think anyone could blame him.

There is no doubt that there will be big questions for Wenger to answer if we fail to win the Premier League title this season and going out of the FA cup to a Championship team would make those questions even bigger, but I do not see how replacing him at this crucial period will help Arsenal.

I'd like him to step down but I would like us to win cups despite this, I hate to see us fail.

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The fact that we failed to win a real trophy for nine years did not help of course, but the Gunners finally saw that right at Wembley last May, adding a fifth FA cup win of the Frenchman's reign.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

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The Merseyside outfit, looking to bounce back from the FA Cup semi-final exit against Aston Villa and the 0 - 0 Premier League draw at West Bromwich Albion, saw plenty of the ball but failed to punish their well - organised opponents.

In postgame remarks following Chelsea's F.A. Cup match against Norwich City, Conte repeatedly called Mourinho a «little man,» a «fake,» clarified that he meant to say Mourinho might be suffering from amnesia rather than dementia though still said Mou needs to watch out because his memory appears to be failing regularly, and not - so - subtly threatened to beat his ass when they see each other at the upcoming Chelsea - United match next month:

We then play our game in hand next Monday at Colchester where we will be hoping to avenge that Premier League Cup defeat that ultimately saw us fail to reach the last sixteen.

The Foxes failed to see off Championship opposition Derby in the FA Cup on Friday night and their league form continues to be of huge concern for them.

His lack of passion to financially invest heavily in the club that could make Arsenal to win other titles than the FA Cup they've won thrice in the last four seasons has seen Arsenal failing to win the bigger trophies of the EPL, UCL and the Europa League Cup as a secondary big title.

Harry meanwhile, having triumphantly routed the prosecution at his trial, inexplicably failing to substitute the struggling centre back William Gallas against Chelsea at Wembley seeing Spurs slip away in the concluding games of the season, architect of those superb displays against Milan in the European Cup, he remains as a supreme wheeler dealer, much though he hates the description, immensely wiser, shrewder and more worldly wise than he ever claimed to be in court, I feel he would always be happier at club level.

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It couldn't get a lot worse for Italy after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, seeing their manager sacked and turmoil within FIGC — the Italian Football Federation.