Not exact matches
The Argentine faces the task of managing his squad for six games in 17
days, competing in the Premier
League, the Capital One
Cup final and the Europa
League.
Can we all stop being negative for a while and congratulate Sir Arsene Wenger for breaking Sir Alex's record of 810 games, it was a great
day for us only to be ruined by Mike Dean, Wishing AW and the team all the best for 2018 for the treble, FA
cup, League Cup and UEFA
cup,
League Cup and UEFA
Cup and UEFA
cupcup
Van gal was shwn the door that very
day he won the FA
Cup for man united, thats there standard, David moyes was shown the door just 10 even before the
league was over.
They may have beaten Chelsea on new years
day and scraped past
League One Sheffield United to reach the cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA cup at home and have drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the l
League One Sheffield United to reach the
cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA
cup at home and have drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the
leagueleague.
Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four
days after being embarrassed in the
League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one
League game all season.
To deny yourself going to a final, whether it be FA
Cup,
League Cup or Europa
League, is denying yourself the chance of a
day out with your mates.
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If we finish 7th, I.e. behind Burnley, as seems more than likely now, we then have to go into the Europa
League qualifiers which start 11
days after the end of the World
Cup.
So with such a good lead and the second leg just three
days before the
League Cup Final against Man City, Wenger was obviously asked if would be resting most of his stars for the second leg next Thursday, and he replied: «We'll see.
We are just 7
days away from the
League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which could make or break our chances of catching our neighbours up in the title race, but conversely this FA
Cup game against Southampton could also be just as important.
However, his exclusion from the match
day squad entirely this weekend was a surprise, although as noted by freelance injury analyst Ben Dinnery in the tweet below, Pochettino has now revealed that the Tottenham midfielder picked up an ankle problem in midweek in the
League Cup win over Barnsley.
Ramos's Tottenham beat Chelsea 2 - 1 in the 2008
League Cup final on a
day that saw Dimitar Berbatov and Jonathan Woodgate bag goals, after Didier Drogba had fired Avram Grant's Blues into a half - time lead.
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The most favourable draw could come from taking on the Red Devils, with them on course for a Europa
League quarter final match which would result in them playing a few
days before the FA
Cup semi-final is scheduled for April 22 - 23.
He will miss Leicester's FA
Cup third - round tie with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane this Sunday, and will be assessed ahead of their Premier
League match at the same venue three
days later.
But now we have the mouth - watering prospect of seeing our Lord and master return against Arsenal as an opponent for the first time, as he has now joined Nottingham Forest on a two - year contract and is very likely to be in their side when they play against us in the
League Cup in 12
days time.
So will today be an important
day for the Premier
League title challenge as well as our defence of the FA
cup trophy?
Just a few
days later, on Sunday 25th, we have the
League Cup Final against Manchester City.
«It is disgraceful in this
day and age that players are being asked to play a key Premier
League game and then a
League Cup quarter - final in London just 48 hours later,» he told the club's website.
February 23 2016: After our great win against Leicester, we had a miserable 0 - 0 with Hull at home in the FA
Cup and then 3
days later we played Barcelona at home in the Champions
League.
History will repeat again Arsenal will be knocked out of UCL round of 16 Arsenal will be 15 points behind City in January We will finish 4th by beating Bournemouth on final
day Third time lucky if we win FA
cup or
League cup Arsenal players will celebrate 4th by doing selfies and fans will say In Arsene We trust and Jack will say on bus pararde what do u think of tottenham?
Now the Arsenal players have a week before the FA
cup clash with Sunderland three
days before we travel to Anfield for the
league game against Liverpool.
If they stay in Europe and the FA
cup United could have 25 more games before the end of the season, at an average of one every four
days starting with the second leg of their Europa
League tie tomorrow and then the EFL
cup final this weekend.
Ooooooooo Haaaaaaahaaaaah!!!!!! i m really really happy guys because all the premier
league big boys lost their games at their own stadium few minutes earlier in fa
cup against small teams... it has really made my
day and m very happy... chelsea lost 4 - 2 vs bradford at bridge man city lost 2 - 0 vs middlesborough at etihad southampton lost 3 - 2 vs our sanogo's crystal palace at saint mary's and lastly tottenham also losf at white hart lane vs leicester 2 - 0... I hope liverpool also lose today vs bolton at their own turf anfield in later match that would be something amazing guys all top teams gonna be out with our team hopefully tomorrow we will see off brighton and win the fa
cup again and retain the
cup and I think we r now favourites to win fa
cup INSHAA ALLAH tis season again..
Personally speaking I would take the potential to win a Premier
league or UCL above another FA
cup any
day of the week.
In a
cup final we put out a team, that has lost all belief in themselves and in their manager, and it performs worse than a
league one time did against Man City a few
days before.
One of Wengers first buys for the sum of # 500k was a young French 17 year old who in his first full season took over from the legend Ian Wright and led the line to the
League and
Cup Double at 18 years old.Wenger signed Yaya Sancho.Need We
day more.
The 26 - year - old ended last season in fine form, scoring a hat - trick on the final
day of the Premier
League season and opening the scoring in the 4 - 0 win over Aston Villa in the FA
Cup final, though he was largely anonymous for much of the campaign prior to that.
With an FA
cup clash with Hull City just a few
days before the visit of Barcelona in the Champions
League, Wenger has some big decisions to make about team selection and rotation.
He has realized he cant win the glorious PL and UCL in his remaining time, so might as well win sh!t load of FA
cups and Europa
league to save his face while facing the press on the
day of his retirement.
At the end of the
day the
league cup has more value than the mickey mouse Asian, Emirates and Charity Shield trophies that we won before the season started.
While Spurs were defeated by the Gunners in the Capital One
Cup earlier this year, Mauricio Pochettino's side haven't lost in the
league since the opening
day, and are unlikely to roll over for their rivals.
In the old
days (like last year lol) if Arsenal (or any team in the Top Four) won the FA
Cup, then the runners - up in the
Cup Final would take their place in the Europa
League, like Hull did last year, but now UEFA have changed the rules so that if Arsenal win the
Cup again, then that last Europa place will go to the next highest - placed team in the
League table.
The fact of the matter is that Tottenham are currently in 7th place in the
League, and if they stay there, which is highly probable, then they NEED Arsenal to beat Aston Villa on
Cup Final
Day to ensure that the Spuds get their usual Thursday night dogfight.
Totally agree Chris.He is now well past his sell by date and defeats like have suffered against Bournemouth and Swansea are not only embarrassing but unforgivable.The results were bad enough but the performances are now all too familiar against theses lower ranked clubs.To expect us supporters to be blinded by
League Cup Final and only a couple of decent performances so far this season is misjudging our feelings about his position This is a very well educated and intelligent man who can have no doubts about our attitude and utter disgust for him.He has allowed for us to make this personal now and he is deluded if he thinks e can collect another years salary out our expense.He knows his control is slowly being wrestled away from him and that really says it all.Ivan G is taking control and Wenger will be raging inside with this.Did he seriously expect things to continue until he felt it was time to just walk off into the sunset?Well he now knows his time at OUR club is fast running out.The
day can't come soon enough for me.
Gone are the
days when Arsenal were run by people who desired to win the
league and
cups, and now they only desire stuffing their pockets with money like thieves.
While I would love for Arsenal to get some good luck in the FA
cup this weekend and the Premier
League match against Southampton a few
days later, I would happily settle for the absence of any bad luck for the Gunners.
Roberto Martinez may well see the
League cup as a very real chance of a trophy and it gets you a place in Europe these
days as well.
The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA
Cup wins and continuous Champions
League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury
days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.
Arsenal have four more Premier
League games to play before we see the visit of Hull in the FA
cup, a re-run of that famous
day at Wembley in May when the Gunners finally ended our long wait for another trophy.
With Alex Iwobi most recently making the transition from the Under 21's to the first team, Zelalem is more than likely to be in with a chance of being included at the very least in some match
day squads next year, especially in the earlier rounds of the
league cup competitions.
Walking out on a
cup final early is poor saying the things after is poor we have had the most consistancy of any pl club for 20 years it goes bad we lose and we show no honor in defeat i never mentioned wenger i mentioned the lack of support in a
cup final was sad and by walking out it showed we've been spoiled city did nt leave the semi early last year when we beat em they did nt leave early wehen they lost in
league one and i cant stand city im arsenal through and through we won a
cup last year and the year before were in another
cup final and tempemental fans leave early even though it takes alot to get to a
cup final maybe you need to lose more to lose respectable its hard it sucks but its a
cup final bigger than the management our opinions for a
day its about how you show you solidarity as a club win or lose every other club in england would of taken our spot in a heartbeat if they could of and we lea e early that shows spoilage and it was embarrassing to see we need to be stronger as supporters newcastle does nt like ashley yet they still show up and when was the last time they won a
cup?
This is not to pick on Given particularly, who was an excellent goalkeeper back in his
day and is, one imagines, an outstanding reserve to have around the place, covering the odd
League Cup game here and there and passing on accumulated wisdom to any passing youngsters.
Out of the FA
Cup and out of the Champions
League in the space of seven
days and Arsenal looked to be on the brink of total meltdown going in at the break 2 - 1 down against Liverpool on Good Friday.
Man city can quadriple his wages, win him the premier
League title, arsenal can only offer cl football and a shot at a domestic
cup, we're the valencia of england, the schalke of Bundesliga, lille of ligue 1, don't be fooled by the media, you saw right before your eyes how we got trashed by dortmund, now if u were reus WHY the F @K would you step down to arsenal, when you can see rozza and ozil on your
days off anyway?
First up will be the next step of our defence of the FA
cup won in a dramatic Wembley final in May and just 10
days later comes the home leg of the first knockout round of the Champions
League.
Richards has played just once this season, in the
League Cup defeat to Luton Town, and coupled with the arrival of Ritchie De Laet this week, it looks as though his
days at Villa Park are numbered.
Despite finishing second, they were never truly in the title race, and losing to Wigan in the FA
Cup is inexcusable, given that this poor side was relegated from the Premier
League just
days afterwards.
Since Everton's last
day in the sunshine of success, Liverpool have filled their silverware shelf with two FA Cups, three
League Cups, one Champions
League, one UEFA
Cup and a couple of Community Shields.
Chelsea meet Arsenal again six
days before the Premier
League begins as the two London clubs re-enact May's FA
Cup final in the Community Shield at Wembley.