After last weekends narrow 2 - 1 FA
Cup victory away at Preston, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez are welcomed
David Wagner will provide the latest on Collin Quaner at his press conference tomorrow (Thursday 11 January 2018) after being subbed off in the first half of the Emirates FA
Cup victory away against Bolton Wanderers with an injury.
Not exact matches
After a cracking
away win in the fourth round of the FA
cup at the weekend, Arsenal are still in with a chance of retaking the crown of most successful club in the famous old competition's history, which the recent two Wembley
victories over Hull City and Aston Villa had given us until Man United won it last season.
After our home
victory against Leicester, they had two weeks without a fixture — Ranieri took advantage of their early elimination from the FA
Cup and gave the players a week off training to get
away and forget about football.
Since losing to Tottenham at White Hart Lane in early February, the Gunners have won SEVEN
away fixtures in a row, including the FA
Cup victory at Old Trafford.
Two further cautions mixed up the order and it was polesitter Ricky Stenhouse Jr who snatched the lead
away from Kyle Busch on the last lap to claim his first
Cup victory.
The comfortable 2 - 0 home
victory against Middlesbrough in the FA
Cup was made possible by a scintillating first half which not only blew
away their Championship opponents, but also illustrated just how ruthless Arsenal have become since the turn of the year.
Called The Lillies, the band comprised of Simon Raymonde from the Cocteau Twins, Miki Berenyi and Chris Acland from Lush and Moose's Kevin McKillop and Russell Yates, but they only ever released one record - a flexi - disc given
away free with a Spurs fanzine in September 1991 featuring a song called And David Seaman Will Be Very Disappointed About That... The song commemorated the club's 3 - 1
victory over arch rivals Arsenal in the FA
Cup semi-finals the previous season.
Christian Benteke scored the quickest ever goal in World
Cup qualifying to help Belgium to a comfortable 6 - 0
victory away at Gibraltar.
Arsene Wenger will need to inspire his team to
victory against Chelsea despite the fact that it is an FA
Cup final, as a failure to win the cup would mean this season has been a total and utter failure with no positives to take away whatsoev
Cup final, as a failure to win the
cup would mean this season has been a total and utter failure with no positives to take away whatsoev
cup would mean this season has been a total and utter failure with no positives to take
away whatsoever.
Previous meetings with Romanian opposition in Europe competition (where we have yet to record an
away victory) saw UEFA
Cup elimination to Steaua Bucharest in 1999 and
victory against Poli Timisoara in the 1980/81
Cup Winner's
Cup.
Optimism was so high after the crushing
victory at Southampton in the FA
Cup, but since then, the title challenge hasn't just faded
away, it has been spectacularly blown up and disintegrated into a thousand pieces.
Seeing Arsene Wenger field arguably Arsenal's side, starting both Walcott and Oxlade - Chamberlain up front, and seeing the useless Gervinho relegated to the bench, was the first sign of things to come, as a Santi Cazorla inspired side won their first
away match since the Capital One
Cup victory at Reading.
• Apart from those two
victories against Lazio, Salzburg have won just once in 11 other matches against Italian sides —
away to Udinese in the 2003/04 UEFA
Cup first round — and have a home record against Serie A opposition of W1 D1 L4.
Other meetings between the teams have always gone Barcelona's way: a 3 - 1
victory at the Gamper Trophy in 1999, a win on
away goals after ending 2 - 2 on aggregate in the 1986/87 UEFA
Cup and a 2 - 1
victory in the Latin
Cup final of 1948/49 (2 - 1).
Arsenal come off a confidence - boosting
victory in the Premier league to an
away tie against lower - league opposition, hoping to use the
cup as a springboard to greater success.
Two of those came at Anfield, 2 - 1
victories against West Brom in the league and Tottenham in the
cup, before Klopp's men really shone attacking-wise in last weekend's 4 - 2
away triumph at Crystal Palace.
-- The Canaries are unbeaten in four Premier League
away games, winning their last two at QPR (2 - 1) and West Brom (2 - 1) − it's three in all competitions after their 2 - 1
victory at West Brom in the FA
Cup.
However, the first five of their seven European quarter - final ties all ended in
victory, most recently against Internazionale in the 2003/04 UEFA
Cup (1 - 0 home, 1 - 0
away).
Arsenal come into the game on the back of an impressive 1 - 1 draw
away to champions Manchester City and a comfortable 6 - 1
victory over League 1's Coventry City in the Capital One
Cup.
They collected their first
away points of 2011 when holding Newcastle to a 1 - 1 draw at St James» last month while they clinched a quite stunning 3 - 2
victory at St Andrews last weekend to beat Birmingham and book themselves a place in the semi-finals of the FA
Cup and a date with Wembley in April.
They are on a run of four successive
away victories in the UEFA
Cup / UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
Two of those games have been League
Cup wins, but four consecutive Premier League
victories came after the 1 - 1 draw
away at Tottenham Hotspur.
Following
victory over Emley the West Ham
cup run saw an
away win at Manchester City, two draws and a win on penalties against Blackburn before losing on penalties (Abou) following two drawn games with Arsenal in the 6th Round.
Watch our interview with match - winner Dušan Tadić after Southampton's 2 - 1
victory away to West Bromwich Albion in the fifth round of the Emirates FA
Cup.
Since then, Fulham have lost four
away games on the spine, not including their
away victory at Accrington Stanley in the FA
Cup, in which they struggled for the best part of 75 minutes in that game.