Cast your minds back to the 2011
League cup final where Arsenal were looking to win their first piece of silverware in six years against a struggling Birmingham City side.
Not exact matches
Once all the EPL games are over the focus will switch to the FA
cup final at Wembley
where Arsenal will fact the
league champions Chelsea, and I feel that the goals could be intrinsically linked, with an unlikely top four spot likely to give us a great boost and help us get to Wembley full of form and confidence.
Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four days after being embarrassed in the
League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates,
where the Gunners have only lost one
League game all season.
He will miss his club's next three games through suspension and will be hoping inspire his current XI to another famous turnaround, similar to that of the 2005 Champions
League final and the 2006 FA
Cup final where he scored crucial goals to help Pool win those games.
It remains to be seen
where Arsenal go from here, of course, and this FA
cup quarter -
final victory over Lincoln City will not mean a great deal if the Gunners play poorly from now on and fail to win the FA
cup or finish in the top four of the Premier
League.
Am i dreaming it seems like we've been here before, oh yeah thats right it happened last season and the season before that... Oh wait guys but there is hope, if i remember corectly all we have to do is wait for any serious potential threats to us retaining the Fa
cup for a third time to get eliminated by lower
league opponents or of course eliminate themselves by not taking this competition too seriously by fielding their second team and laugh our way to the
final where we'll probably beat a sub par premier
league team and repeat it all over again next year you know when Wenger fails to address the squad depth, the injuries mount up and are out of the champions
league and title run ins by march..
Having effectively ruled out a move to the Chinese Super
League after the FA
Cup final on Saturday though, it's seemingly becoming a less likely option for the commanding forward, and that's
where it becomes a tricky situation for Chelsea.
This House of Cards created by the thin - skinned narcissist and our absentee landlord is going to come crashing down over the next 12 months and anyone who doesn't put the success of the club ahead of blind allegiances will need to check themselves so that we can move forward once the dust has settled... this club has been on auto - pilot for far too long and the same old, same old just won't cut it in the new EPL
where many of the best managers, players and deepest pockets in the world now reside... just think to yourself what has transpired in the last 7 years alone: Leicester City won the EPL, Chelsea and ManCity have changed several managers and still won the
League on multiple occasions, ManU lost Fergie yet we still didn't take advantage, Liverpool has emerged from their slumber and the Spurs are presently the better team in North London... if you find this acceptable, I feel for you and this future of this club... hope you all enjoy fighting with Everton and West Ham for the
final Europa spot every year (aka the new Wenger
Cup)
After an empathic win against Lancaster 1s last week to secure the BUCS Northern 2A
league title, our netball 1s continue their
cup campaign tomorrow
where they host Leeds Beckett 1s in the semi
final.
Yes the
league doesn't really matter anymore because one way or the other, due to City winning the league & us losing to them in the League Cup Final, we are guaranteed Europa league football regardless of where we finish in the league... 6th spot seems secured an
league doesn't really matter anymore because one way or the other, due to City winning the
league & us losing to them in the League Cup Final, we are guaranteed Europa league football regardless of where we finish in the league... 6th spot seems secured an
league & us losing to them in the
League Cup Final, we are guaranteed Europa league football regardless of where we finish in the league... 6th spot seems secured an
League Cup Final, we are guaranteed Europa
league football regardless of where we finish in the league... 6th spot seems secured an
league football regardless of
where we finish in the
league... 6th spot seems secured an
league... 6th spot seems secured anyway..
The Gunners won their Europa
League group to set up a Round of 32 tie against Ostersunds FK, are in the semi
finals of the Carabao
Cup where they take on Chelsea and begin their FA
Cup campaign with a trip to Nottingham Forest next month.
Toronto FC engraved their first ever chapter on the Estadio Azteca turf — the same turf
where Pelé won his third and last World
Cup and Diego Maradona scored one of the best ever World
Cup goals — with a 1 - 1 draw against Club America, which earned them a spot in the Concacaf Champions
League final.
Who guided Chelsea to another Premier
League title in his very first season and also had Chelsea in the
final of 2017 FA
Cup where they lost against Arsenal.
Manchester United will host Hull City in the first of two legs, at home, to book a place in the
League Cup final at Wembley,
where the Red Devils have been quite successful in 2016 winning the FA
Cup and the Community Shield.
This will be the first leg of a very exciting looking double header
where both teams will be looking to book their place in the
final of 2018 English
League Cup.
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.
However, he put this statistic to bed by netting a wonderful opener in the
League Cup final,
where he lobbed the ball over David Ospina to score.
They were branded «The Invincibles» and went on to win the FA
Cup in 2005 and reach the Champions
League Final in 2006,
where they fell to Barcelona.
We speak about
cup finals or Champions
League games, or the local derbies,
where he put in outstanding performances against Tottenham.
Arsenal reached the FA
Cup final at the weekend,
where they will fight to retain their crown, whilst they prepare for the visit of
league leaders Chelsea.
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.
His
final season was to be the 2010 - 2011 season,
where Arsenal lost the
League Cup final, which Fabregas missed due to injury, and were controversially beaten by Barcelona in the Champions
League.
United had done enough to make the quarter -
final of the FA
Cup,
where they would face Premier
League leaders Chelsea, a team which beat United 4 - 0 back in October 2016.
Since then, Leiva has suggested that Coutinho would have a better preparation with Barcelona for World
Cup finals in the summer as the Brazilian would not have to feature in the Champions
League,
where he is ineligible courtesy of his participation for the Reds in the same competition.
Looking back on Mourinho's career, the longest stint he spent at one club was first time round at Chelsea,
where he lasted just over three years after his initial success had started to wear off, only claiming the
League Cup in his
final full season before struggling at the beginning of the next.
Contrast that with prodigal son Pogba, a precocious star of United's FA Youth
Cup - winning side in 2011 who turned his back on Sir Alex Ferguson to go to Juventus,
where he enjoyed Serie A title success and a Champions
League final, before returning to Untied for a then world - record fee of # 89million.