Sentences with phrase «cup victories did»

I heard a radio broadcast discussion just the other day that posited the notion that Arsenal's FA Cup victories did not really mean anything because they only had to beat Hull and Aston Villa.

Not exact matches

This season I don't think that there are any more hiding places or excuses left for Prof. Wenger for not buying the WC players needed to help Arsenal achieve victories in all major cups (well at least the league and another cup, and not the usual 4th place in the league victory)...

When we won the FA Cup last year, beating the two best teams in the country in the semifinal and the final, did the victories constitute a rejection of the manager by the players?

Let us be proud that Wenger has not only became the most successful FA Cup manager, he has done it winning a 3rd of the FA Cups he has participated in and that also includes the 9 barron years between 04/05 victory and the 13/14 victory.

Yess they all had a good game im happy for our boyz but im not going to rate anyone yet because for me thats a relegation tm & they're doing so poor right now, after the manure fa cup clash then ill rate the boyz, we always perform well against the small teams now is time to grow some serious balls & beat the hell out of manure when last we had a victory against them #COYG!!!

I don't want to start the Wenger bashing earlier but unfortunately despite the FA cup victory, if we don't sign an established goal scoring striker then we find ourselves in the exact same position as last year, and the year before

Not only did the kids from the Continent play a key role in Europe's Ryder Cup victory — Thomas Bjorn (age 26), Darren Clarke (29), Ignacio Garrido (25) and Lee Westwood (24) accounted for six of 14 1/2 European points — but they also won several tournaments and climbed in the World Ranking.

The next week he spun Matt Kenseth out of the lead with five laps remaining at Kansas, and last Sunday Logano scored a controversial victory (not of his doing) that prevented Dale Earnhardt Jr. from advancing to the third round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff.

So I don't expect him to willingly sacrifies victory over Spurs on Wednessday night's at the Lane on the alter of not piriotizing the Capital One Cup.

Southampton beat us in the cup against a rusty attack who did not have much game time, it will be a different situation this time with arsenal gradually getting stronger, i expect a victory for arsenal whether southampton had Schneiderlin or not

It's been a long 10 years since Adebayor rolled the ball into United's net for our last victory at OT, although last season we did manage to win there in the FA cup.

Are you the same guy predicting fa cup victory would be a springboard back to EPL and cl glory... I think you are... We are a mid table team playing mid table footie..., that's where 10 years of wenger induced decline with episodic cup runs ends up... True fans want that changed the rest is just waffle... Anyone insisting wenger staying put will do it needs to be hauled off to the rubber room...

i urge you to recall what we did last season in all but 4 games (we also followed up defeat to the pool with a victory in the FA Cup and we tied shitty in march).

Likewise, Arsenal endured a frustrating outing against Middlesbrough one week ago as they were held to a draw, but they did return to winning ways midweek as victory over Reading saw Arsene Wenger's side secure a place in the EFL Cup quarter finals.

Though the FA cup victory in the last two seasons is a welcome boon, it still doesn't soothe the long standing pain of not winning the league.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Ah Will - do you not listen to Pires?In the last 14 years Wenger has led the team to 368 FA Cup Victories and 2571 Comunity Shields.I this time he has had an average annual transfer budget fo # 346 - 58pence.

Wenger has yet to prove he can win in the new era where sugar daddies exist; again don't throw an FA cup victory in there and expect that to be some solid argument.

a) Preston (Championship Team) b) Southampton (Sothampton dropped 10 1st players) c) Sutton (Non league Team) d) Lincoln (Non league team) e) Man City (good victory but we did benefit from dodgy referee decision) f) Chelsea (again good win but against a team that had been partying for a week) So as you can see the FA Cup is no measure of your quality as a team.

The 28 year - old gifted Olivier Giroud the winner in the weekend's FA Cup victory over Preston North End with a sublimely skilful backheel, and has really been catching my eye in his appearance, despite a seemingly slow start, and whilst getting over the disappointment that his signing did not mean we had added a new out - and - out striker to our squad.

Let me put it this way then: I don't want to see any of our players improve their experience for the benefit of themselves and the club unless they're wearing our kit:) Unrealistic of course, and no one should turn down an opportunity to play for their country, but I can just taste victory, and I hate to see an unnecessary match thrown into the shortest month of the year with Barca and Cup final looming.

His decision to leave however doesn't seem to have gone down well with fans of the club, who appeared to jeer the World Cup winner following the 5 - 1 victory over Wolfsburg; who can blame them given the recent history between the two sides?

Don't Touch raced to victory in the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup today to extend his unbeaten run to five, in what was an exciting race, with jockey Tony Hamilton only narrowly emerging victorious.

In the cup, you can win it with six straight victories, which we managed to do twice.

Hayes was left in no doubt as to the significance of this victory, coming as it did in the midst of so many crucial cup games for Chelsea Ladies.

Indeed Mourinho had urged Martial to respond in the FA Cup and though he contributed two assists in the 4 - 0 victory over Wigan Athletic, did not even make it off the bench in the key Premier League fixture against Hull City a few days later.

I'd expect at least three of these to start at the weekend, if not all four as they didn't feature in the EFL Cup victory over Leicester City midweek.

Liverpool's inability to capitalise on a favourites» chance to reach the final of the League Cup earlier this week completed a run of seven games without a victory and, in the eyes of some, provided all the ammunition required to point the proverbial gun at Liverpool's charismatic manager, safe in their opinion that doing so is perfectly reasonable.

But then things did get better for the Mackems in midweek, thanks to an entertaining 6 - 3 victory over Exeter City in the League Cup second round which should give the side a much needed morale boost ahead of a tricky encounter at Villa Park.

He at least was winning trophies again though, with several FA Cup wins in recent years — but now he doesn't, losing to Nottingham Forest in the third round and losing the League Cup final last weekend to City (although admittedly there is still a chance of Europa League victory).

But four days after Arsenal's epic 2 - 1 victory over Chelsea, it doesn't feel like heat - of - the - moment exaggeration to say that it was one of Arsenal's best ever FA Cup final performances.

In FA Cup action West Ham did record a thumping 6 - 1 victory against 4th Division Aldershot — but only after a replay.

They've taken 22 of a possible 33 points since Martin O'Neill took charge, winning six of their previous nine in the league − which, of course, does not include their impressive 2 - 0 victory at home to Arsenal in the FA Cup last weekend.

Since that Gunners March 9th FA Cup victory denting the Red Devils» home game superiority over the Gunners, LvG has been waiting for the Boss and his Gunners to repair the dent the Gunners did to their game superiority complexion whenever they the Gunners come again to play against the Red Devils at Old Trafford.

Things haven't been great, and while the victory on Saturday against Lincoln City was expected, it did put Arsenal through to the FA Cup semi-finals.

I didn't see last night's 2 - 1 FA Cup victory over West Ham — but even on paper it looked pretty damn good.

Owen Coyle will have no doubt hand - picked plenty of positives from a festive period which didn't exactly reap may rewards in terms of points, though even the potential manager of the season will have his fair share of concerns regarding his team's current frame of mind following ta three - match sequence without registering a win in the league, a run that probably wasn't remedied by a 2 - 0 FA Cup third - round victory over Conference side York City simply because it was scruffy and very fortuitous, not to mention required Coyle to draft in his big boys in the dyeing embers of the game.

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Y is everyone so happy that utd lost, i would have rather had it we kicking their arse, although they did loose 4 - 0, which makes their 7 - 1 victory looked long gone and lost, although people might argue (as usual) no berbatov no rooney, but they had a pretty strong line up in my opnion with the likes of giggs, fletcher, chichrito etc... Well even if we do win the CC its nothing to go on ranting abt because the critics and other fans will hit us back saying well its just the carling cup a competition to breed young talent..

I did see Southend Utd win a famous (for us) league cup victory over 1st division Derby: I think Peter Shilton was playing in goal for you.

Its most striking «Tin Cup» kinship: Knowing vindication and victory don't always arrive together.

Even if it didn't cause showroom stampedes, during its six - year existence, the three - door racked up an impressive string of accomplishments in the Swedish Touring Cup series, winning both the 2009 and 2010 title, and over the course of its racing career, getting 20 overall victories, 42 podium finishes, 34 pole positions, and 22 fastest laps.

Odyssey does score the coveted cup holder victory here, with a count of 12 usable drink ports.

The core experience here is the fighting itself and even the career mode doesn't try to change this; you simply fight a series of nine fights in each of the three cups and upon victory become the champion of champions.

What makes Prey so unique is you don't just run and gun your way through victory, but it's the type of game where you transform into a coffee cup to evade a surveilling blood - thirsty alien prowling the room.

Did you know that Germany had a secret weapon that led to its dramatic victory against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup final?