Arsenal will seek to avenge
their League Cup final defeat against Manchester City when they host them in the Premier League on Thursday.
Going back to that painful
League cup final defeat to Birmingham City in the last few minutes, right up to the recent first leg disaster against the French club Monaco in the Champions League, Arsenal have come unstuck like this a few times.
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.
Last season we handed Chelsea a comprehensive hiding in the
league, beat City in the FA
Cup semi
final and
defeated Chelsea (again Soundly) in the FA
Cup final to mention a few.
The Gunners lost Sunday's Carabao
Cup final to the Citizens, before enduring a dismal
league defeat last night by the same scoreline, and despite some trying to find positives from our displays, our star striker is refusing to seek any.
After losing to Manchester City in the Carabao
Cup final last weekend, the Gunners slipped to another 3 - 0
defeat at the hands of Pep Guardiola's side in the Premier
League on Thursday night.
He has also lifted the Italian
Cup in 2015, and helped Juventus to the
final of the Champions
League last season, before they were
defeated 3 - 1 by Barca.
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.
They were beaten 3 - 0 at the Emirates in the Premier
League last season, and also went on to suffer a shock 2 - 1
defeat in the FA
Cup final last May.
The Gunners are in a miserable state currently, as after losing to Manchester City in the Carabao
Cup final on Sunday, they fell to another heavy
defeat to Pep Guardiola's men in the Premier
League on Thursday night.
This will be a repeat of last season's FA
Cup final, in which our side
defeated the already crowned Premier
League champions of last term, and the fact that Antonio Conte has only managed one competitive win over Arsene Wenger in six encounters should leave us with some confidence.
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 Gunners side looks to have lost all confidence after a string of
defeats saw them beaten in the Carabao
Cup final by Manchester City and winning a place in the Premier
League top four this season also looks in serious doubt.
League Two side Bradford City are likely to turn down the chance to play in Europe next season if they achieve the unthinkable and
defeat Swansea City in the Capital One
Cup final at Wembley.
Liverpool head to Ewood Park to take on Blackburn in a quarter -
final FA
Cup replay in an attempt to save their season after Saturday's
defeat to Arsenal seriously dented their Champions
League hopes.
Any hope of some solace coming in the Capital One
Cup were snuffed out with a penalty shoot - out
defeat to Sunderland at the semi-
final stage and a
final hope of any silverware comes in the Champions
League.
The Saints are revelling in their
defeat of Liverpool in midweek, which has earned them a place in only their second
League Cup final of their history, but the manager has called for focus ahead of the coming encounter.
More recently we've witnessed relegated Wigan Athletic beating mega-wealthy Manchester City against all the odds in the 2013
final,
League One outfit Bradford City recovering from a 2 - 0 deficit to
defeat Premier
League leaders Chelsea 4 - 2 at Stamford Bridge in 2015 and just last February Lincoln City shocking Premier
League Burnley to become the first non-
league club since 1914 to reach the
cup quarter -
finals.
The 2006 - 07 season began in the worst possible way with a 3 - 4
defeat to Inter in the
final of the Italian Super
Cup but ended with another Serie A second place finish, a spirited run to the
final eight in the Champions
League and a glorious 8th Coppa Italia success, this time against champions Inter.
First they
defeated Monaco 3 - 1 on aggregate in the Champions
League first knockout round, then they won the Capital One
Cup final on penalties against Spurs.
Manchester United
defeated Southampton in the
League Cup final to win 2017 Caraboa
Cup (also known as EFL
Cup).
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 Ar
League Cups, domestic
league and Champions League) is the League Cup final against Ar
league and Champions
League) is the League Cup final against Ar
League) is the
League Cup final against Ar
League Cup final against Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger was asked after Sunday's Carabao
Cup final defeat whether he would now prioritise the Europa
League.
Two goals in the
final five minutes condemned Everton Under - 23s to a 2 - 1
defeat in their
final Group F Premier
League Cup clash at Holmes Park.
The Gunners went into the contest on the back of damaging
defeats to Manchester City in both the Carabao
Cup final and the Premier
League, as well as losing the home leg of their Europa
League tie with Ostersund.
Played better than our last
defeat in a major
final (v Chelsea 2007 League Cup Final), but this was the trophy we were most likely to win this se
final (v Chelsea 2007
League Cup Final), but this was the trophy we were most likely to win this se
Final), but this was the trophy we were most likely to win this season.
With Chelsea adrift of the Champions
League qualification places in the Premier
League,
defeat to Leicester in Sunday's FA
Cup quarter -
final and then to Tottenham on April 1 could result in a premature departure for Conte, whose position has been the subject of speculation all season.
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The former Wales and Manchester City boss has been under - fire in recent weeks following a run of poor results in the Premier
League, and the
final straw for the Stoke board was Saturday's embarassing FA
Cup defeat at
League Two Coventry City.
• Heaviest away
defeat 6 - 2: FC København v Bayern 22/10/91, UEFA
Cup second round first leg 5 - 1: Eintracht Frankfurt v Bayern 22/04/80, UEFA
Cup semi-
finals first leg 4 - 0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona 08/04/09, UEFA Champions
League quarter -
finals first leg
Heskey won the
League Cup again in the 02/03 season as Liverpool
defeated Manchester United 2 - 0 in the
final.
• Heaviest away
defeat 6 - 1: FC Bayern München v Porto 21/04/15, UEFA Champions
League quarter -
final second leg 6 - 1: AEK Athens FC v Porto 13/09/78, European Champion Clubs»
Cup first round first leg 5 - 0: twice, most recently v Arsenal FC 09/03/10, UEFA Champions
League round of 16 second leg
Like all those other
final defeats, for Liverpool the 2016 League Cup Final will shortly be treated like it did not happen at
final defeats, for Liverpool the 2016
League Cup Final will shortly be treated like it did not happen at
Final will shortly be treated like it did not happen at all.
They
defeated Leicester in the
League Cup Final but Liverpool beat Chelsea in the FA Cup semis whilst the league challenge faltered with three consecutive defeats after the Blues were top for much of the cam
League Cup Final but Liverpool beat Chelsea in the FA
Cup semis whilst the
league challenge faltered with three consecutive defeats after the Blues were top for much of the cam
league challenge faltered with three consecutive
defeats after the Blues were top for much of the campaign.
Defeat to the Premier
League's basement side and denied an EFL
Cup final against Manchester United have intensified criticism of the club's recruitment strategy.
A
defeat by FC Barcelona in the 2011 UEFA Champions
League final prompted Sir Alex to add to his squad in the summer with thoughts of a third European
Cup foremost in his mind.
The Gunners were humiliated by Manchester City in the EFL
Cup final last week, before a second 3 - 0
defeat in the
league just days later.
Also, a top - four finish in the Premier
League can not yet be ruled out given their fighting spirit and improvement in recent weeks, even beating Man City 3 - 0 at Anfield just days after their
cup final defeat.
Saints marched on to their first
League Cup final since 1979 when they
defeated Liverpool on Wednesday night at Anfield.
-- Arsenal will host the
final top flight fixture of the weekend on the back of successive
league defeats, losing away at Fulham (2 - 1) and Swansea (3 - 2) either side of a nervy 1 - 0 win over Championship side Leeds in the FA
Cup.