The game actually felt a lot like
the League Cup meeting a few weeks ago, the only difference being that the Blues couldn't find a last gasp equaliser to salvage a draw.
They occurred after Arsenal had secured a 1 - 0 win over the Hammers in
their League Cup meeting at the Emirates with the video below showing a tense stand - off between the two sets of supporters with stewards lined up between them.
From eight previous
League Cup meetings, Arsenal are 5 - 2 up with one drawn match.
Not exact matches
Last season the sides
met three times with Arsenal winning the
league and FA
Cup meetings at The Emirate's Stadium and Liverpool coming out on top at Anfield 5 - 1.
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.
Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao
Cup by Arsenal after a semi-final defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they
meet in the Champions
League next week.
In 1967 these two sides
met in Lisbon to slug it out for the European
Cup in what would go on to be Celtic's first triumph away from their domestic
league.
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
Cup.
The English
League Cup may be third on the list of domestic competitions in terms of how it's viewed by the elite of the Premier
League, but when the giants of the English football pyramid
meet up, it's always a good time, especially when you get to watch rivals like Chelsea and Arsenal go head - to - head like they will in the semifinals starting Wednesday.
Two months later the pair
met at the Millennium Stadium for a second time in the
League Cup final.
Watford beat Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium to knock them out of last season's FA
Cup, but the Gunners have won all seven
meetings with the Hornets in the Premier
League.
The North London derby is always an emotional
meeting for Arsenal and Tottenham fans, and tonights
League Cup game is becoming even more important than usual as the Gunners have to break a losing run.
The capital club
meet Barcelona in their Champions
League quarter - final first - leg on Wednesday, only a week after having overcome Saint - Etienne 4 - 1 in the French
Cup semi-final.
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
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.
And with a trip to Manchester United next up in the
league for Arsenal (after
cup games against Hull City and Barcelona), the hosts will be going all out to secure all three points, just as they did when the sides last
met at King Power Stadium last year, with Arsenal running out 5 - 2 winners.
The three Arsenal victories, in last season's Premier
League meeting at the Emirates and FA
cup final before this season's Community shield, have all seen us take the game to Chelsea and that should be the plan once again, without being too open and forgetting about being hard to beat of course.
They beat Wigan in the
league in a warm - up for the FA
Cup final, as it was confirmed it would be the Latics they would
meet at Wembley, though they capitulated to lose 3 - 1 at Tottenham despite taking a 1 - 0 lead.
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.
Wenger's men will now
meet Premier
League leaders Chelsea in the Wembley showpiece on May 27th, for their third FA
Cup final in the past four seasons.
After last night's opening Champions
League games, all the talk on Arsenal websites is about our
meeting with Barcelona next Tuesday, but first of all we have the small matter of a fifth round FA
Cup tie against Hull City coming up.
The Gunners were held to a 0 - 0 draw at West Ham earlier this season in the
league but they did also
meet up with the Hammers in the EFL
Cup in December, with Arsenal taking a 1 - 0 home win.
Antonio Conte believes last weekend's
league meeting is proof that his Chelsea side are in for a tough game when they face Southampton in Sunday's Emirates FA
Cup semi-final.
England
meet Australia in the Rugby
League World
Cup final in Brisbane on Saturday, looking for their first - ever title.
The World
Cup winner started Monday's Premier
League meeting with West Brom on the bench, with his value and commitment now being questioned
When we
met Liverpool in a
League Cup fourth round tie in November 1988, few gave us much chance as we had failed to beat them at home or away for over six years.
Having also entered the final 12 months of his current contract, Keown believes that the World
Cup winner could now be phased out — with a slight knock keeping him out of a recent trip to Chelsea, before only being named on the bench for Monday's Premier
League meeting with West Brom.
Two seasons later we
met Stoke in a
League Cup semi-final that went to four games.
The high end games (finals and semi-finals of
cups and top 4
meetings in the
league) are where Arsenal have suffered from being unable to match our free spending rivals.
Last season these two
meet three times with United losing at Old Trafford in premie
league but winning in the EFL
Cup and drawing at Etihad Stadium.
Following the
meeting in Doha, Scudamore said: «Yes, very disappointed that's the word, on behalf of all the European
leagues and particularly the European clubs who provide most of the players for this World
Cup.
Yeovil Town and Tottenham Hotspur both go looking to step on the gas and return to winning ways as they
meet in the FA Women's Super
League Continental Tyres
Cup.
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.
The only time that we have
met them in a
League Cup tie at Upton Park was in the third round of the 1994 - 95 competition, on October 26 1994.
Both have already
meet twice this season where City secured comfortable wins 3 - 1 in
league and 5 - 0 in FA
Cup third round.
The clubs
met again, twice in quick succession, in the early 2000s in the Champions
League and UEFA
Cup.
Before Europa
League holders United
met Madrid in August for the UEFA Super
Cup clash, Mourinho pledged that he would try and sign the player if he didn't appear for the Los Blancos against the Red Devils.
UL's involvement in the final of the Fitzgibbon
Cup, Clare have named a strong side ahead of the Allianz National Hurling
League meeting with Waterford.
Palace have won both
meetings of the sides so far this season as they followed up their 1 - 0
league win with a 2 - 1 FA
Cup Third Round win on the south coast that set them on their journey to Wembley.
Manchester United will hope to put their UEFA Champions
League disappointment behind and defeat Brighton & Hove Albion, when the two sides
meet in the quarterfinals of the FA
Cup at the Old Trafford.
That season FA
Cup meeting was their first
meeting after 2006 - 07 season's Premier
League head to head.
Crystal Palace won the last
meeting between these two sides in the
League Cup in November 2011, winning 2 - 1 after Extra-time during the Fifth Round of the
League Cup
I think
meeting them twice on the pitch in the
League and the
Cup may not be ideal but I think Arsenal could probably nick a result at Anfield.
To the best of my knowledge West Ham
meeting the same opponents in successive
cup and league fixtures has occurred 5 times previously this century: January 2002 v Chelsea (Lost, Draw); April 2006 v Middlesbro (Lost, Won in FA Cup semi-final); December 2007 v Everton (Lost, Lost); January 2008 v Manchester City (Lost, Draw) and March 2011 v Stoke City (Won, Los
cup and
league fixtures has occurred 5 times previously this century: January 2002 v Chelsea (Lost, Draw); April 2006 v Middlesbro (Lost, Won in FA
Cup semi-final); December 2007 v Everton (Lost, Lost); January 2008 v Manchester City (Lost, Draw) and March 2011 v Stoke City (Won, Los
Cup semi-final); December 2007 v Everton (Lost, Lost); January 2008 v Manchester City (Lost, Draw) and March 2011 v Stoke City (Won, Lost).
If you include the
League Cup then City have scored twenty four goals in the last seven
meetings of the sides at The Etihad.
Reds boss looks forward to locking horns with former mentor Jose Mourinho as the sides
meet in the
League Cup semi-final
Getting eliminated from the FA
Cup challenge by their arch rival, Arsenal is not a pleasing result for Tottenham Hotspur, that's why they are really eager to redeem themselves this Saturday, January 11 when they
meet up against Crystal Palace in their latest English Premier
League fixture.
For the first time in six games, Madrid won a city derby in the
league, defeating Atlético 3 - 0 on their last visit (barring a
meeting in the
cup or the Champions
league) to the Vicente Calderón, which will be bulldozed at the end of the season.
The first - ever
meeting in Paris was in the UEFA
Cup quarter - finals in 1993 with the French side winning 4 - 1, then followed a 1 - 1 draw in 1994 and then a 0 - 0 in the 2015 Champions
League Group Stage.
Furthermore, the Red Devils are unbeaten in their last three home
meetings with the Gunners, two of which were wins, and with the team still to taste defeat in the current campaign, and that does include every competition bar the
League Cup they've played in up till now, you really are struggling to form a solid enough basis of reasoning upon which to oppose the mighty reds.