Despite helping Germany to win lift the World
Cup trophy last summer, and to qualify for the tournament in the first place of course, the Arsenal play maker Mesut Ozil was getting the same sort of criticism from the football media and former players in his homeland as he was from the English press and pundits, for what many perceived as a bad attitude and a lack of effort.
Manchester United did remarkably well to win Europa League and League
Cup trophies last season, but the English giants failed to impress in the 2016/17 Premier League campaign.
Not exact matches
Giroud said he wanted to stay at Arsenal and win
trophies, but that now looks very unlikely to happen, so could the Frenchman finally decide that playing in his
last World
Cup is more important to him now?
This victory makes it look like the FA
Cup is our very best chance of a
trophy this season, and after 2 winners medals out of the
last 3 seasons, we should have every chance of going all the way yet again.
Last I checked Le Prof was somehow dropping points to the Watfords, CP's and Bournemouths of the world to narrowly miss out on adding another Wenger
Cup trophy to Emirates.
Year 4 — 2009 ECL Semi Final — EPL 3rd — FA
Cup Semi Final Year 5 — 2010 League
Cup Final — ECL
Last 16 — EPL 4th Year 6 — 2011 ECL
Last 16 — EPL 3rd Year 7 — 2012 - EPL 3rd Year 8 2013 — EPL 4th and we Led the EPL for 27 Weeks of the Season Emirates Financial Constraints ease off FA
Cup win in 2014 FA
Cup win in 2015 People talk about the 8 Season wait for a
Trophy — but we had our share of Finals and Semi's.
We peppered over the cracks
last season with our FA
CUP trophy..
And Arsenal have not also lifted d European
Cup or the Ucl
trophy in their history since it was formed despite the fact that Arsenal have in the
last 18 years been playing in the competion regularly without missing out.
There has been a lot of debate among the Arsenal faithful over the
last few weeks about what the FA
cup might mean to us and whether it would be enough to calm down the fans that have had to yet again see our team get nowhere near the Premier League title or the Champions League
trophy.
Arsenal sent scouts to watch Goretzka at the Confederations
Cup last summer, where he helped Germany to a winners
trophy and amazingly he has scored 6 goals from midfield in his 12 appearances for his country.
you be the judge youself to see recent form of Arsenals games and
last seven years what been achieved just one FA
cup trophy and top four finish.
One of the features of the
last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA
cup trophy won in dramatic fashion
last season to defend.
In the
last 24 months we have money, and it's not magic that we win a
trophy in the FA
cup.
Arsenal fans will be hoping that the bookies have got this one right, as the men whose job it is to predict the most likely outcomes have installed the Gunners as favourites to win the FA
cup again in May, retaining the
trophy that we won
last year at Wembley to end the nine year wait for silverware.
Europa
Cup trophy, that's the most farewell consolation for Arsene's
last ride.
Spurs finished bottom of the top six table
last season Spurs didn't win a
trophy last season, Arsenal won a
cup and a shield Why is Arsenal being judged on
trophies while Spurs is judged based on on field performances.
Per Mertesacker was our hero in the FA
Cup Final against Chelsea
last season, and he was called up again for Arsenal's first defence of the
trophy we have won for the
last two years.
You mean, y understand the spud feeling for only got a carling
cup trophy in the
last 20 years.
In 2010 he was forced to sit out Southampton's Football League
Trophy trophy victory and last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the F
Trophy trophy victory and last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the F
trophy victory and
last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year
trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the F
trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the FA
Cup.
On the
last two occasions Tottenham have beaten Chelsea in the
cup, they have gone on to lift the
trophy.
Yes, and we've won a few
trophies in the
last «13 years», unless you live in mars; 3 FA
cups, with 2 coming back to back can not be scoffed at.
Winning an FA
Cup in your
last season after years without a
trophy would have been ideal for him to bow out on.
The Argentine may have not won any
trophies in the
last calendar year, but he was inspirational as part of the Argentina side that got to the 2014 World
Cup final.
Although Ramos was sacked by Spurs just before the first anniversary of his appointment and left them bottom of the Premier League table after eight games of the 2008 - 09 season, he is still the
last manager to guide the White Hart Lane club to a major
trophy, having lifted the Carling
Cup in February 2008.
Just in the
last decade La Liga teams have lifted four Champions League
trophies with one runner - up team and five UEFA
Cup trophies with two runner ups.
Jon get out the rubber room your still complaining about winning
trophies and competing for
cup finals and the premiership a mere two seasons ago we have won 5 and been in 8 final games where in
last ten seasons where are you?
Ambition: He said he wants to sit with the club in the summer, i guess he wan na know the level of their ambition to decide if he will stay or not... All in all, i think the most important thing he wants are UCL, Fa
Cup, money and a chance to challenge for major
trophies, money comes
last for him i assume...
Ivan, So what your saying is that the FA
cup doesn't represent a
trophy now that Arsenal have won it three times in the
last four seasons?
If leaving with a
trophy was the ideal time for him to leave Arsenal then surely he would have left
last season when we won the FA
Cup.
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.
Realistically the FA
cup is our
last main chance of a
trophy this season so why not go out all guns blazing and win this game.
Over the
last 4 years, Arsenal have been on average the 4th best team in England so for them to win 3
trophies in 4 years would have paid off massively if you had placed a wager on this, slam him all you want for Premier and Champions League failures recently, but give him equal amounts of praise for his FA
Cup brilliance.
We know for a fact that Arsene Wenger will make big changes for this Capital One
Cup game, whereas we also know Pochettino takes this competition seriously and went to the semi-finals
last year before losing to the
trophy winners Chelsea.
Well if we failed we won't have won a
trophy last season (FA
cup would be used to blood youngsters), we won't have players like Alexis and Ozil come into the club, and we definitely would not be able to keep players like Cazorla, Walcott and Ramsey because we would probably be playing Europa league (or even not been in Europe) and still have probably 5 more years to go in paying of the stadium because we are not getting enough money into the club (no Champions league).
Just because the Gunners owned our north London rivals
last season, with three wins out of three including one on the way to an FA
cup trophy, does not mean we should expect it to be easy on Saturday, even though we have the advantage of playing at home.
Arsenal are now spending money and not selling our best players, showing Theo that
last season's FA
cup should be the first of many
trophy wins.
Arsenal rallied towards the end of the season and did end up breaking the
trophy drought by winning the FA
cup but I fully believe that injuries cost us the title that year, just as they did
last year.
Arsene Wenger has been ridiculed many many times over his fixation of getting Arsenal into the Top Four every year but failing to win any other
trophy for eight long years until
last season's FA
Cup victory, but in a deep interview with the BBC he is proud of his achievements.
For those who questioned his lack of
trophies, Wenger answered with consecutive FA
cups in the
last two years.
Two seasons ago, Arsenal finished fourth in the Premier League and won the FA
Cup,
last season we retained the
trophy and moved up a place in the League.
So basically the Man United boss is saying that the so - called «Wenger»
trophy is better than the FA
cup, something the football media and Arsenal fans have slammed the Frenchman for over the
last 10 years.
The Gunners next play Brighton in the FA
Cup fourth round, and will be hoping for a victory so that they can continue their effort to defend the
trophy they won
last season.
It had been 12 years since an Englishman
last lifted the FIFA Interactive World
Cup trophy, that day belonged to Chris Bullard.
With the Italian Super
Cup in their
trophy cabinet too after their win over Juventus in Doha
last month, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic as the club now plot ways to strengthen their squad this month.
For example,
last years
cup success for Arsenal was probably the luckiest and easiest
trophy Wenger's ever won.
Once that game is over it will mean that both Arsene Wenger and Roy Hodgson will be left disappointed as Iwobi will be immediately disqualified from playing for England in the future, and Wenger will be annoyed that he will lose Iwobi to the African Nations
Cup every two years, and also Elneny will be there for every competition as well, considering that Egypt have won the
trophy more times than any other country, although they have not reached the
last three finals -
The confidence has been growing in the Gunners camp and was significantly boosted by
last season's FA
cup trophy win and by beating Man City, Liverpool and Man United already this season and almost ending the big game bottlers tag.
The
last 2 summer transfer windows that we bought outfield players we won the FA
Cup, not the EPL but it was still a
trophy after years of nothing, that got us some # # # # which we missed out on this year.
They died down a bit in the
last two years after the prof steered us to FA
cup trophy wins in back to back Wembley finals but another year without the big one of the Premier League title has brought the knives out for the Frenchman once again.
There is much more expectation and pressure on them to win, especially after losing the World
Cup final
last year and not lifting a
trophy for over 20 years.