Starting tonight with the UEFA Europa
League Cup Final between Manchester United and Ajax in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ahead of Sunday's
League Cup final between Manchester United and Southampton, Chris Smalling has said that he hopes the experience United players have...
Not exact matches
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.
United came from behind to earn an FA
Cup quarter -
final replay against West Ham United, but were dumped out of the Europa
League at the hands of Liverpool in the first - ever continental meeting
between the two fierce rivals.
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.
Players earning 100k + are expected to be able to play 3 games at the highest level THREE times in 8 days throughout the whole season.This accounts for European games sandwiched
between league games, all off which are supposed to be played like they're
cup finals with the best players.
There are parallels
between this
final and the
League Cup final.
This weekend there will be only 8 matches since Man City / Man United and Southampton / Arsenal have been postponed due to the
League Cup Final (which will be played on Sunday, Feb 26th
between Man United and Southampton).
With both teams having nothing to play for, this game on Saturday lunch - time
between the Hammers and Spurs is simply for bragging rights, with Sam Allardyce's men recording two wins over the North London side this season; a 3 - 0 victory in the
league at White Hart Lane, and a 2 - 1 win in the Capital One
Cup quarter -
final.
Jimmy Dimmock was the first - the outside left who scored the winner in the 1921 FA
Cup Final made it to 100
league goals in 400
league appearances
between 1919 - 1931.
Southampton have been solid enough under Puel this season, but there's a clear step down in quality
between this side and the one which finished sixth last term, The Saints aren't in any position to push for Europe this season, although they did have a
League Cup final appearance earlier in the campaign.
Between the age of 19 and 22, Courtouis won La Liga (the first time a team outside of Barca and Madrid had done so in 12 years), the Europa
League, the Copa Del Rey, the UEFA Super
Cup, and was runner up in a bitterly unlucky Champions
League final against Real.
Liverpool's Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho celebrates scoring their first goal to equalise 1 - 1 during the English
League Cup final football match
between Liverpool and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London on February 28, 2016.
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.
So this is a clash
between Premier
League leaders and Championship leaders at the Etihad for a place in the quarter
finals of the EFL
Cup.