Sentences with phrase «efl cup shock»
Not exact matches
So Arsenal fans will be happy to say that our next opponents Watford suffered a setback to their own confidence and morale yesterday as they crashed out of the EFL cup with a shock defeat at home to Gillingham, a team currently sitting 10th in the third division of English football.
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Some Arsenal fans will not remember this, although the shock Premier League triumph of Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City side did cause a lot of people to hark back to the similar achievement of the managerial duo of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in the 70s, but Arsenal's opponents in the EFL cup after this international break, Nottingham Forest, were once the kings of Europe.
However, with (what has recently become) the biggest game of the season scheduled for next Saturday, manager Slaven Bilic will be anxious to deploy his resources prudently; would his tenuous position survive either a shock EFL cup exit (probably) or a home spanking by those neighbourly, north London itinerants (unlikely)?