Sentences with phrase «league cup game away»

Most Arsenal fans are looking at tonight's League Cup game away at Sheff Weds to be a piece of cake, whichever team Arsene Wenger puts out, but I think everyone is going to be mildly surprised at the quality of our opponents.

Not exact matches

So the games that Francis is likely to miss are the FA cup trip to face Preston and Premier League games with Swansea away and Burnely and Watford at home.

As well as the need for Arsenal to keep winning our Premier League game to stop Chelsea running away with the EPL title this season, there is a growing importance to Arsenal fans on the FA cup.

Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win over Hull City in the FA cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier League game throws up an away game with the reigning EPL champions.

Arsenal have a massive week ahead starting with today's FA Cup match at home to Watford, followed by our trip to Barcelona in midweek, and then a massive game away at Everton in the League next weekend.

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.

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.

To me this is almost a must win, Our next 3 premier league games after stoke, Chelsea away, Leicester Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One away, Leicester Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One Cup.

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.

Now Arsene Wenger and the players must make sure that this is a blip and not the way our fortunes will pan out, because before the next break we have EPL games against Everton away, Swansea at home and Man City away as well as the Carabao Cup game and the Europa League double header with Red Star Belgrade.

That brings me onto the good news, because with Arsenal losing away to Liverpool and missing this weekend's round of Premier League games because of our involvement in the FA cup we could have found ourselves cut adrift when our next EPL game comes around.

So we can not rely on Ramsey being able to feature in key games like the Champions League game away to Monaco or the FA cup clash away to Manchester United.

Elneny - cos he could do with the game time considering with Xhaka returning from suspension in the league, Coquelin, Cazorla and now Ramsey back he won't start till we face Southampton in the league cup and after that he is away.

Our reserves, who had played so bad in Zagreb, suddenly came good and knocked Tottenham out of the League Cup, and then we had a tough away game at the only team left unbeaten in the Premiership, and shocked ourselves (and Leicester) by winning 5 - 2!

We also have Premier League away games at Tottenham and Liverpool, not to mention the Champions League double header with Bayern Munich and hopefully a few more FA cup matches to get through.

We won both at home and the away game in the League Cup.

Arsenal are three points behind log leaders in EPL, in the quarter final of the Capital One Cup, Joint top in champions league though second on away goals» rule, never lost a game since the start of the season.

In recent years Arsenal have struggled a bit when we have had to play in the early slot on a Saturday after a midweek Champions League of domestic cup game, especially if that game has been on a Wednesday and especially if the midweek match was away from home in another country.

Clearly the FA cup looks the easier of the two even though our next game is away to Man United, but the one we all really want is the Champions League.

Elneny could have arrived at a perfect point in the club's history, with us at the summit of the Premier League, aiming for our third FA Cup in a row, and just a couple of games against Barcelona away from the last 16 in the Champions League.

Not sure if I'll see the Leicester game either cos its the same old cycle: start poor, top the league by Dec and fade away in Feb (get knocked out of FA Cup, Capital one Cup and UCL and lose key matches in the league, all in the space of two weeks) There's only one way out.

Arsenal have already got through to the next round of the FA cup without the Spaniard at right back, although it was a much harder game against Preston North End than we would have liked, and there is good reason to expect us to do the same away to Swansea City in the Premier League this weekend.

While Cech is playing well and Arsenal are struggling, however, I can not see Ospina getting a chance in the Premier League, but he is likely to be called into action for the cup games and as the first one is away to our local rivals Tottenham, Ospina will have a great chance to make a name for himself again, as he did for most of last season.

Despite the Gunners excellent home record, they have won just 3 of their 11 away League games this season, but adversely Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 10 away games in the FA Cup, and even more if you include our Wembley semis and Finals!

After conceding the fewest goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cCup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League ccup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cupcup.

Our next two games are away to Brighton in the FA cup and at home to Aston Villa in the Premier League.

Arsenal also have an away FA cup tie among these league games and you would assume that Southampton will beat Norwich to face us.

Depending on circumstances the Gunners could be out of the cup and out of the realistic title race when the final whistle blows on our Premier League away game at Stamford Bridge on February 4th.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

The first is also the reason why, even though I want United to win I do not want them to win easily, because their midweek game is the FA cup replay against West Ham who Arsenal face away in the Premier League on Saturday.

The Gunners are away to Burnley and then there is the FA cup semi before the Premier League game at home to Jose Mourinho's team and even if the Gunners win it, we will need Chelsea to have dropped some points in their two previous games away to QPR and at home to Man United to have a chance of overhauling them.

Even though Arsene Wenger made a complete change to the Arsenal starting line from the weekend draw away to Chelsea in the Premier League, he was still not willing to take too many chances in this Carabao cup game at home to Doncaster, so the visitors were facing a strong Gunners side including Walcott, Giroud and Alexis Sanchez up front.

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.

It is going to be very difficult for Arsene Wenger to now leave the France international star out of the Arsenal starting line - up, as Olivier Giroud scored a vital winner in the FA cup clash at Preston North End after setting up the first two and scoring the third in that unlikely comeback in the Premier League away game at Bournemouth.

Of course we know that Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang will get a rest as he is cup - tied in the Europa League, Arsenal face a tough away game against an in form Newcastle United on Sunday and to add to the problems we have been handed the early kick - off, so you can see why the Frenchman might want to rest a key player or two.

For most of the games that Arsenal have played this season, whether in the Premier League, domestic cups or Champions League competitions, we have had to cope with a bigger injury list than our opponents, but that was not true of West ham on Wednesday and even less so for our next EPL game away to Crystal Palace.

We know that the Football League cup is not the highest on the list of priorities for the Arsenal manager, at least until the later rounds when the chances of winning a trophy can not be ignored, but Arsene Wenger will still want to get through our first game in the competition away to Nottingham Forest tonight.

12 April 2016: City plays Champions League QF, while Arsenal rests 16 April 2016: City vs Chelsea (away), Arsenal vs Crystal Palace (home) 23 April 2016: both City and Arsenal play FA Cup semi final (rescheduled games: City vs Stoke City, Arsenal vs Sunderland) 30 April 2016: City vs Southampton (away), Arsenal vs Norwich (home) 3 May 2016, delayed games: City vs Stoke City (home), Arsenal vs Sunderland (away) 7 May 2016: City vs Arsenal (Etihad stadium) 15 May 2016: City vs Swansea (away), Arsenal vs Aston Villa (home)

Today he is aiming to score his third goal in three games for the Tigers in the big away game at Wolves, but he will have to get past the Gunners third - choice keeper Emi Martinez, who featured in the midweek League Cup win.

A Champions League trip to Zagreb is quickly followed by Chelsea away in the EPL and then a third away game in a row against the spuds in the Capital One Cup.

It is not just in the FA cup where this ban could work in our favour though, as the Northern Ireland international is also set to miss some big Premier League games, including Tottenham, Villa and Man City at Old Trafford and Liverpool and Chelsea away.

With Arsenal now sitting in second place in the Premier League table and heading for a second successive Wembley FA cup final and on an amazing run of form, with 21 wins and one draw from our last 25 games, the calls from some Arsenal fans and members of the football media have pretty much gone away.

The really serious test of how the Arsenal defence is going to be able to cope with the absence of our Wprld Cup winning Germany international Shkodran Mustafi is not likely to come until the Premier League game away to the current leaders Manchester City on November 5th.

The big question for Arsenal fans today was about who was going to fill the third forward position for this massive Champions League game against Barcelona, as the team selection of Arsene Wenger for the Hull game away int the FA cup had all but told us what team we would see tonight.

Their most recent match was in this season League cup, where Manchester City were won by 1 - 4 goals in away games.

In the league, we won the away game 2 - 0, played at Radcliffe Borough, at the start of September with goals from Tommy Wood and Josh Dolling, but that 2 - 0 scoreline was reversed in the following month when they knocked us out of the Lancashire Youth Cup.

Liverpool travelled to the London stadium for the first time in a game which had a cup final feel about it, win and the Reds would be three points away from Champions League football, lose and Liverpool would be reliant on either Man City or Arsenal dropping points.

Embed from Getty Images The 2017/18 strip which is likely to be worn during Cup competitions and during away Europa League games was launched by the likes of Ozil, Lacazette and Giroud.

They are out of the League Cup, have had their struggles in Europe with back to back draws in the UEFA Champions League and they have shipped an average of three goals per game in their three away game this season in the Premier League.

The league will be the main aim, but there's no reason for the Blues to shy away from cup games.