Sentences with phrase «efl cup team»

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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.

«If you go through the squad, the team they played in the EFL Cup against Nottingham Forest, and the team they'll play against Reading, it's full of internationals.

Debuchy is not what we need, he is at best useful for EFL cup games against lesser division teams and Europa league groupstage games, not in d Knockout round where we might face Dortmund, ATM, Celtic etc.....

There is not too much to be happy about this morning if you are an Arsenal fan, after another exit from the league cup, currently known as the EFL cup, with Arsene Wenger demonstrating once again that he has very litte respect for this trophy or desire to add it to his collection with an Arsenal team selection that would have struggled to beat a lower league team, never mind our Premier League bogey team Southampton.

He has also opted for Oxlade - Chamberlain over Iwobi and he will be hoping that this team proves that he was right to rest all the big players for the midweek EFL cup loss.

Wenger won't trouble the first team for the europa and efl cup games.

The 23 - year - old has made just one full 90 minute display for the Chelsea first - team this season and that was in the EFL Cup.

If Wenger plays him regulary at RWB or even experiments with him in the middle again lesser Europa League group stage teams or EFL cup (or Caribou / Elk / Deer cup or whatever the heck it's called now) I would be all for it.

Always good to see important players returning from long term injuries.But in this case I feel that cazorla would be the one whose comeback will be more significant in terms of quality in the squad depth.I guess wenger will look to put together two first team squads one for the epl while the second for the efl cup, fa cup and europa league.We have enough quality and depth to actually do that

We should have entered a team in the EFL TROPHY as well as the cup, then more of these youngsters would have had even more focus and opportunity of reaching a Wembley final.

Although we know that the EFL cup is not very high on the Arsenal manager's list of priorities and he does the same thing with rotasting the squad every season, it was still a bit disappointing to see Arsene Wenger make 10 changes to the team for this quarter - final against Southampton.

We have a relatively easy run during that period, 2 champions league games against the weakest team in the group and efl cup home game against reading, 1 away game at Sunderland and 3 home league games against swansea, Boro and the hardest one coming a month away against the filth.

McTominay made his first team debut for Jose Mourinho's side towards the tail end of last season, with the player also having made a handful of appearances for the Red Devils this season in both the Champions League and the EFL Cup.

Unless Arsene Wenger is indulging in a bit of kidology with his rival manager, I am surprised to see that the Frenchman, instead of keeping his cards close to his chest like he normally does, has revealed a lot about the Arsenal team that will start the EFL cup match at home to Reading, as the latest team news on the Arsenal website has reported.

Since Wenger does not rate the EFL Cup and has a history of fielding youngsters in this competition, I expect the team to be like:

Despite his promise, it seemed that Maitland - Niles may be slowly drifting towards that grey area where players are kept amongst the youth team ranks until their eventual release, however he stunned fans by being announced as a starter in the first EFL cup match of the campaign.

Willock has actually featured five teams in the UEFA Europa League (3 starts), once in the FA Cup and three times in the EFL Cup (1 start) for the Gunners this season, before being handed an opportunity in the greatest league in the world.

Southampton's Claude Puel (left) and his management team celebrate after his side scores during the EFL Cup semi final, second leg match against Liverpool.

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4 points on West Ham to beat Chelsea @ 9/2 (22) 1 point on West Ham to repeat the EFL cup score, and win 2 - 1 @ 17/1 (18) 1 point on West Ham to win and both teams to score @ 9/1 (10) 1 point on Costa to score the first goal and West Ham to win 2 - 1 @ 100/1 (101) 1 point on West Ham to come from behind and win @ 22/1 (23) 1 point on an accumulator with the following teams to win this weekend: Man United, Leicester, Stoke, Swansea, West Brom, Tottenham and Man City @ 40/1 (41) 1 point on an accumulator with the following teams to win this weekend: Man United, Leicester, Stoke, Swansea, West Brom, Tottenham, Man City and West Ham @ 220/1 (221)

KEY FACT: This is the first - ever meeting between these sides in a major final MATCH ODDS: Arsenal 9/2 Draw 7/2 Man City 8/13 bet365 Pick: Man City to & Both Teams to Score @ 9/1 Steve Freeth of bet365 said: «There will be a whole host of punters disappointed to see Manchester City's quest for the quadruple ended on Monday night, but those who have backed the PL, CL, EFL Cup treble at 125/1 will be cheering on Pep's side.

Due to the EFL Cup and FA Cup, the number of league games played by Premier League clubs varies between Manchester United and Southampton on 26, and a few teams like ourselves on 29.

The seven English teams who qualified for European competition this season, including ourselves, received byes into the third round of the League Cup, which in the absence of a sponsor is now called the EFL Cup.

Both teams were in EFL Cup action during the week and, whereas the Hammers came through unscathed with a competent performance against League Two Cheltenham, Newcastle were dumped out, after extra time, at home to Championship Nottingham Forest; albeit with a definite second string line - up.

With this win Chelsea go marching into the next round of the EFL Cup and Conte will hope that his team can keep performing with the same energy and spirit in the upcoming days, as they get set to face off against.

The EFL Cup final on Sunday between Manchester United and Southampton means four teams aren't in action this weekend — Manchester City and Arsenal are the other sides.

in the EFL Cup both teams celebrated when they played at home, but the Red Devils booked the next stage with a 3 - 2 result in total.

Four days after Manchester City thrashed Arsenal 3 - 0 in the EFL Cup final at Wembley Stadium the two teams meet again, this time at the Emirates Stadium in the Premier...

I know Hull beat them in the EFL Cup semi-final second leg but United played like a team that were two goals up.

I missed the EFL Cup final but the most important thing is the fact that the team won it.

For sure, we want to try to fight until the end and I think we are a good team and we want to try to do this in the league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.

Of the six aforementioned teams in my mini-league, only Burnley and Leicester are still in the FA Cup, although Southampton have performed well in the EFL Cup to reach the final where they will take on Manchester United at the end of February.

It will be interesting to see hiw Arsenal react to the setback as this team followed up defeat to Liverpool with a 14 - game unbeaten run and even the fringe players recovered from losing to Southampton in the EFL Cup to then batter Basel.

Liverpool's Welsh striker Ben Woodburn scores his team's second goal during the EFL (English Football League) Cup quarter - final football match between Liverpool and Leeds United at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on November 29, 2016.

Manchester City / Arsenal will play their regularly scheduled Premier League match later in the week on Thursday as these teams will actually meet in the EFL Cup Final on Sunday morning (11:30 a.m. ET).

The United States under - 23 international, who spent last season at Scottish club Rangers, made two substitute appearances for Arsenal in the EFL Cup this season but has yet to make his way into Arsene Wenger's first - team plans.

When United lifted the EFL Cup last season, it was the first since 2010 with United leading 2 - 0 at a stage in the match, conceding two goals to make it 2 - 2 with Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring the winner in the 3 - 2 victory, which was unfortunate for Southampton, who were the better team when they clawed back United's 2 - 0 lead.

It was striking, therefore, to hear the Argentine speak so unreservedly about Tottenham's 18 - year - old playmaker Marcus Edwards on the eve of his first - team debut against Gillingham in the EFL Cup back in September.

Davis defended Ben Garratt for advancing from his spot in the Round two EFL Cup match which saw the team's elimination saying that it is the game plan of the shot stopper, but, his fault is that he has not always been able to grab the call when he has advanced.

Team News & Possible Lineups: Mourinho has one eye on that EFL Cup semifinal game against Hull City and season defining Premier League game against Liverpool next week which means we can expect fringe players to get a chance this Saturday.

It was the second meeting between the teams in the space of a week after Rafa Benitez's side cruised to a 6 - 0 win in the EFL Cup last Tuesday, a game in which Atsu started and performed well throughout.