The Swans boss Michael Laudrup rested 8 players with an eye on next week's
League Cup final against Bradford.
It's a busy programme of fixtures for our Academy this week, with a home Under - 18 Premier League fixture against Swansea City taking place at Hotspur Way tomorrow (Wednesday 14 March, 11 am) before the Under - 18 Premier
League Cup Final against Chelsea at their Cobham training base on Sunday (18 March, 2 pm).
Despite a mixed first season, where there were extremes such as red cards against Liverpool and Newcastle, and a calamitous mix up in
the League Cup Final against keeping Lionel Messi in his backpoket, he has firmly established as the most accomplished centre back in the team in his second season.
The former Reds defender was critical of both players for their errors in yesterday's
League Cup final against Manchester City which Liverpool lost on penalties.
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Their best chance of silverware since then was the 2011
League Cup final against Birmingham, when they lost 2 - 1, courtesy of a nightmare mistake from Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczesny.
Just before the game yesterday a replay of the 1988
league cup final against Luton was shown on Bt sports.
He started at centre - half in the 2015
League Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley.
The kids became winners in
the League Cup Final against a monumental Liverpool team.
Pep Guardiola will be hoping that this performance does not affect their upcoming
League Cup final against Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger's side edging London rivals Chelsea to book a meeting with City.
City's next assignment after this defeat that ends their dreams of a quadruple (both FA and League Cups, domestic league and Champions League) is
the League Cup final against Arsenal.
A League Cup final against Manchester City ended up in embarrassment.
But tomorrow, Wenger has to consider making changes to the starting line - up with
the League Cup Final against Man City coming up on Sunday, butwould he risk playing with a completely second string X!?
Arsenal are preparing for
the League Cup final against Manchester City at Wembley on Sunday, but transfer speculation concerning them hasn't stopped.
While he can boast a wealth of experience at the highest level, he perhaps hasn't been as reliable as he once was, and so with the threat of penalties in
the League Cup final against Manchester City looming, fans want Ospina between the posts given he became the first Arsenal goalkeeper in four years to save a penalty.
After the disaster in
the League Cup final against Birmingham City in 2011 the pressure was really on the prof and the vast proportion of Arsenal fans along with almost every member of the football media did not want to listen to any excuses about the lack of money available to the the Frenchman.
And, according to Arsene Wenger, he will have to build his fitness up again before being certain to play in
our League Cup Final against Man City on Sunday.
Just a few days later, on Sunday 25th, we have
the League Cup Final against Manchester City.
Remember we were overwhelming favorites in
the League Cup final against relegated Birmingham but lost.
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.
Not exact matches
Southampton — TBA — LOSE They're starting to show some good form of late, and were brilliant in defeat
against Man Utd in the
League Cup final.
We have a strong squad for playing in the Europa
League, Premier
League and the
final of Capital One
Cup against Chelsea.
He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the Champions
League final against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis
against Real, & the recent Italian
Cup final this season with his first touch.
I bet he watched videos of Mourinho's masterclass
against Chelsea in the
league over and over again before the FA
cup final.
Morata is starting for a top International team already & has memorable Champions
League final & Italian Cup final goals, memorable Champions League goals against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Dortmund & Man City, equalled the Juventus record for consecutive Champions League goals, won 3 league titles across 2 top leagues & won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tourna
League final & Italian
Cup final goals, memorable Champions
League goals against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Dortmund & Man City, equalled the Juventus record for consecutive Champions League goals, won 3 league titles across 2 top leagues & won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tourna
League goals
against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Dortmund & Man City, equalled the Juventus record for consecutive Champions
League goals, won 3 league titles across 2 top leagues & won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tourna
League goals, won 3
league titles across 2 top leagues & won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tourna
league titles across 2 top
leagues & won the Champions
League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tourna
League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tournaments.
The Gunners are going through a difficult period currently, losing back - to - back games
against Manchester City in the
League Cup final and Premier
League to lead to a fresh wave of scrutiny and criticism for Wenger and his players.
I would prefer wenger say right I'm giving cech the biggest games,
cup finals, EPL games
against the top half of the
league and games in the champions
league against the best 2 sides.
The ban means that he will not only miss this weekend's FA
CUP FINAL match
against Chelsea, but the first two games of the Premier
League 2017/18 season.
Brett Hull's controversial foot - in - the - crease OT goal won the
Cup for Dallas in Game 6 of the
final against Buffalo, but Nieuwendyk got the Stars there by scoring a
league - leading 11 goals, and 21 points, in 23 postseason games
against Oilers, Blues, Avalanche and Sabres.
Then they have the
league cup game
against Hull City on the Tuesday after and Hull could do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to Stoke and the TV folk have done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their
final UCL game the next Tuesday.
Man City are going to be formidible opponents in the
League Cup Final, so should we give our best players some practise
against Ostersund in the second leg?
The Gunners are away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich City winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek games
against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL
cup final at Wembley and after their Europa
League involvement then we can hope for an FA
cup upset.
The North London outfit are in excellent form ahead of the meeting at the weekend having won their last eight in a row in the
league and nine in all competitions after booking a place in the FA
Cup final with victory
against Reading last Saturday.
The German
cup was attained with victory in the
final over Stuttgart before Arjen Robben's late goal clinched the Champions
League against Dortmund and completed the clean sweep of trophies.
The only piece of team silverware he won with the Reds came in 2012 when he lifted the
League Cup after scoring in the
final against Cardiff.
This is the fourth time a team will play the
final of the European
Cup / Champions
League in their own stadium after Real Madrid in 1956/57 (2 - 0 win
against Fiorentina at the Bernabeu), Inter Milan in 1964/65 (1 - 0 win
against Benfica at the San Siro) & Roma in 1983/84 (losing in a penalty shoot - out
against Liverpool at the Olimpico).
English clubs have won four of their five European
Cup / Champions
League final encounters with German clubs, the only exception being Bayern Munich's win
against Leeds Utd in 1975.
The 26 year old Argentine played a key role in Real Madrid's Champions
League triumph last season, putting in a Man of the Match role in the
final against local rivals Atletico, and then greatly impressed at the World
Cup finals.
The Gunners have lost 6 of their last 8 matches, including the Carabao
Cup final against Manchester City, the return match in Europa
League's Round of 32
against Östersunds FK and last Sunday's Premier
League away game
against Brighton & Hove Albion.
Costa has scored less Champions
League goals than Rickie Lambert this season, while he failed to find the net at any point during the Blues» triumphant Capital One
Cup run — although he did strike via a deflection during the
final against Tottenham Hotspur.
Jose Mourinho and Chelsea go into this Sunday's
League Cup final at Wembley as favourites to pick up the first trophy of the season
against Tottenham, with both clubs aiming to win their fifth title.
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The pair enjoyed great success together at City between 2009 - 2013 as the FA
Cup and a
League title were both delivered during that spell, with Toure scoring the winner in the 2011
final against Stoke City to clinch the club's first major piece of silverware in 35 years.
This is with the assumption that we have a Champions
league final to play with FC BARCELONA or an FA CUP FINAL against CHE
final to play with FC BARCELONA or an FA
CUP FINAL against CHE
FINAL against CHELSEA.
Claude Puel's men have just beaten Liverpool to reach the
League Cup Final in February and in fact have won 4 out of their last 5 games in all competitions (and have won their last three at home too) so may be confident of getting another result
against us at St Marys.
The main thing for Arsenal to get done today was to reach the quarter -
finals of the FA
cup, which we did,
against the National
League club Sutton United who were really keeping the magic of the
cup alive after beating Leeds United in the last round.
Argentina striker Sergio Aguero will miss Saturday's FA
Cup quarter -
final against Barnsley as a precaution over a knee injury but should be available for the Premier
League trip to Everton next weekend.
If Arsene Wenger had not given the 23 - year old that rare start in the last Premier
League game of the season, not only would Arsenal fans have missed out on the goal of the season
against West Brom, Wilshere may have missed out on the FA
cup final and the media would surely have got on his back again for being injury prone and for not realising his potential.
Some of his new teammates including Mesut Ozil and Theo Walcott, who scored his first goal for Arsenal
against Cech in the 2007
League Cup final, have welcomed the keeper to the club with messages on social media.
We were massive underdogs in the FA
Cup final against Chelski and what happened?We turned up.Weakened team against runaway league Champions and we played them off the park.Who says we are not capable of repeating this?We are a better team than last season (on paper anyway if not by results) and AM are not of the quality of those SW London Chavs so of course we can win this cup and it's ridiculous to suggest we can
Cup final against Chelski and what happened?We turned up.Weakened team
against runaway
league Champions and we played them off the park.Who says we are not capable of repeating this?We are a better team than last season (on paper anyway if not by results) and AM are not of the quality of those SW London Chavs so of course we can win this
cup and it's ridiculous to suggest we can
cup and it's ridiculous to suggest we can't.