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Sports News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: ghanafa.org Asante Kotoko are the previous winners of the MTN FA Cup The Round of 64 Draw for this season's MTN FA Cup was done on Tuesday and will see defending champions Asante Kotoko begin the defense of their title at home against minnows Kwahu Youth Academy.

The Round of 64 Draw for this season's MTN FA Cup was done on Tuesday and will see defending champions Asante Kotoko begin the defense of their title at home against minnows Kwahu Youth Academy.

However, poor performances against minnows in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League have intimated that there remains much work for Bilic to do — not least in instilling discipline in a side that is competing in Europe thanks to the Fair Play Award and yet has somewhat ironically had three players sent off in five games.

With the stakes being raised significantly, it is believed that manager Arsene Wenger could go with a very strong team on the night but the Frenchman has insisted that the loss against Bayern will not have any bearing on his team selection for the FA Cup clash against the minnows.

His brace against minnows Cagliari last weekend was again simply Juventus doing what Juventus do as they racked up another Serie A victory.

The only chance we really have is that the big boys focus on their league seasons and crash out against minnows and we have a run that looks something like Ostersund - > Celtic - > RB Salzburg - > Nice - > Sporting.

Inter are back in action tomorrow evening in the Europa League against the minnows from Azerbaijan Qarabağ, Walter Mazzarri will be hoping...

Back to back victories against minnows Shamrock Rovers and Strum Gruz have ensured a safe passage to Europa League group stages.

If this is the level of performance against the minnows, imagine how much havoc teams like Man City and Chelsea can cause against the Red Devils.

Ashley Young scored a fantastic goal against the minnows of San Marino last Friday and made a substitute's appearance against Montenegro, so he should be fresh enough to face Sunderland.

The manager took to Twitter to confirm the winger's injury would not play against the minnows, but stressed that it was only a precaution and not a serious problem.

Their most recent — a draw against minnows Eibar — came with Ramos rested from the first team.

Wideman Cheryshev opened the scoring for the Merengues in their Spanish Cup bout against minnows Cadiz, but he may be the reason they're eliminated from the tournament.

England currently top their group for Euro 2016 qualification by six points and have an 100 per cent record going into next month's double header against minnows San Marino and second - placed Switzerland.

Adam Lallana has emerged as a possible injury doubt for England's Euro 2016 last - 16 clash against minnows Iceland on Monday.

stats are great to show number of assitsts etc and one can argue he needs someone to put those away... however he needs to turn a big game in Arsenals favour rather than just shining against the minnows... Chelsea on Saturday would be a great game to do that!

We all know our two weakest areas, but in coquelin, arteta and flamini, we have 1 outstanding dm and to OK ones good enough to cope with the dead rubbers and games against minnows in the league and domestic cups.

Arsene Wenger has continually stated that he has three strikers at his disposal, namely Giroud, Walcott and Sanchez, but none of them are yet to have struck form, although Theo scored twice for England against the minnows of San Marino in midweek.

Arsenal fans have been so well manipulated by ozils pr team that they would swear Mr turn up once every 6 games against minnows is Andrea pirlo in disguise

Can you imagine four away matches and we end up conceding 3 goals even against minnows.

theos amazing 19 goals was actually 10 in the premier league and 5 in the fa cup against minnows 3 against teams like ludogrets and 1 just one against bayern

This has also been applied against minnows in serie A, where we scrap 1 - 0 wins.

Although we also have the Europa League games to come, our next round against the minnows from Sweden, Ostersund, it is hardly likely to be as stressful as playing teams like Barcelona, Juventus or Sevilla and I am sure Wenger will still be rotating players for these games.

We had another late season revival where some of the injury prone starred against minnows in meaningless games.

one win against a minnow like CP is not gonna solve our issues!

Let's not forget that Chelsea is still a great team, this is not against some minnow in the league.

Not exact matches

Ironically, the offensive against too - big - to - fail seems to be encouraging the minnows to school.

The Europa League draw has been made and Arsenal will come up against Swedish minnows Ostersunds — a side founded after Arsene Wenger took over as Gunners manager.

Apparently Wenger now thinks that West Ham were the better prepared team, after the Hammers had failed to win either leg of their UEFA tie against Romanian minnows Astra.

Mexican side Tigres UANL have suffered a nightmare start to their Copa Libertadores last - 16 tie against Bolivian minnows Club Universitario de Sucre.

Our defense was still horendous against Ostersund and they are minnows who probabaly would not even win the Championship.

After losing the North London derby this weekend, Arsenal are very unlikely to finish the season in the Champions League places so it looks like the Gunners only hope of qualifying for the elite competition will be from winning the Europa League, which recommences this coming Thursday with Arsenal playing against the Swedish minnows Ostersund.

It was always going to be interesting to see how Arsene Wenger justified Arsenal's dire performance against the Swedish minnows Ostersunds who had an average attendance of 5,295 last season.

The Reds have only taken four points from their opening five matches, with all of those coming against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets.

Although the Scot has not yet publicly commented on this turn of events, Old Trafford legend Paddy Crerand has probably said what Fergie is thinking, blasting the Premier League and the bods that work there for having the audacity not to allow the Red Devils to have home matches against West Brom, Stoke and Hull after a tough trip having to beat some Danish minnows.

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

We never get tired of our overconfidence against d minnows!

Real want 50 million for Benzema and he only scored a few more goals than Giroud in La Liga, where the big teams like Real wrack up big scores against the league minnows.

The Blues were poor in almost every area against Everton, but one feels that surely can't continue as they meet Israeli minnows Maccbai Tel Aviv.

England are very much like Arsenal in that they only beat minnows like San marino etc but when it comes to the bigger nations they flop miserably just like Arsenal do against the big teams in ECl.

The youngsters were both named in the starting XI for the game against international minnows San Marino on Saturday evening and Shaw, who has begun the season with Manchester United in good form, saw his cross turned into the net by Cristian Brolli for an own - goal to give the visitors a 2 - 0 lead at half - time.

Chelsea look safe in their game this evening after taking a 2 - 0 lead against the ten - man minnows, who lost 6 - 0 to the Blues at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season.

Balotelli only arrived at Anfield in the summer from Lazio's Serie A rivals AC Milan, but despite his impressive goalscoring record at the San Siro, Balotelli has been unable to translate his performances back into the English game, with only one Liverpool goal to his name so far — in the Champions League against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad.

Jose Mourinho's side finished second in their group, behind Fernabahce, and were drawn against the Russian minnows for the next round.

This defensive stat is all the more impressive when you consider the minnows have already come up against Inter and AC Milan.

With the quarter - finals looming, the Dutch will need their flying winger to be at his dynamic best — and with Costa Rica having yet to face anything of his ilk in the tournament so far, few would bet against him putting the Central American minnows to the sword.

After getting a serious dressing down on live TV by former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson last night, as the Gunners toiled against Champions League minnows Anderlecht in Belgium, Arsene Wenger and his players have come in for more criticism today.

I for one will be analysing every piece of the new Gunner's game against European minnows Albania.

Yes, Rooney's getting to play San Marino more than most, but then Charlton wasn't exactly shy about helping himself against teams that passed for minnows back then; indeed, all four of his hat - tricks came in wins by seven goals or more.

After a disappointing home loss to Aston Villa on the weekend, Rodgers will want to see his side bounce back against relative minnows Ludogorets.