Sentences with phrase «consecutive fa»

Chelsea are big favorites to advance to their second consecutive FA Cup Final, but they know it will be more difficult than the odds suggest.
Won last 2 consecutive FA Cup title first time after 2003 - 03 season.
With the FA Cup third round draw today, Arsenal begin their second consecutive FA Cup campaign as holders, having defeated Aston VIlla 4 - 0 in the 2015 final at Wembley Stadium back on May 30, with goals coming from Theo Walcott, Alexis, Per Mertesacker, and Olivier Giroud.
They'll hope for better at home to Scunthorpe on Friday, when the hunt for a fifth consecutive FA Youth Cup gets underway.
Fikayo Tomori's header made it 3 - 0 on the night against Manchester City to seal a third consecutive FA Youth Cup trophy for the Blues!
The Gunners exciting young side reached three consecutive FA Cup Finals, beating Manchester United in sensational style in 1979, and The European Cup - Winners Cup Final in 1980.
Arsenal will look to field a side that includes both experience and youthful energy this weekend as they look make it 13 consecutive FA Cup victories.
In the early part of this century they were simply imperious with consecutive FA Cups, league titles and the greatest strikers in their history in Henry and Bergkamp, but as Roman Abramovich's petro - dollars took hold and Chelsea replaced them at the summit of the English game, their desires lessened.
Spurs have lost seven consecutive FA Cup semifinals — a competition record — but Pochettino dismissed the suggestion that there is pressure from the club's support to end that run on Saturday and urged his players to enjoy the occasion.
The Gunners are on the verge to win their second consecutive FA Cup title and also seems to booked a place in next season's Champions League.
The manager made a few high profile changes to the team, which reached a second consecutive FA Cup final at the expense of Championship side Reading on Saturday, but Wenger should look to rotate again...
Arsenal will be hoping to make it 15 consecutive FA Cup victories as they host a strong Hull City side in a repeat of the 2014 final this weekend.
In total, Coquelin made 22 appearances for the Gunners last season as they finished third in the league and won their second consecutive FA Cup after a 4 - 0 thrashing of Aston Villa.
Can you honestly argue that our consecutive FA cup wins had nothing to do with the two players we've acquired for a combined fee of almost 80 million?
Two consecutive FA Cups have, at long last, given Arsenal fans something to cheer about.
With both sides struggling to get anything on target in the first half, the pressure was certainly building on the hosts who are eyeing a third consecutive FA Cup triumph.
Wenger may have broken his duck of many years through consecutive FA Cups in the last couple of seasons but every supporter will acknowledge that winning Premier League is the utmost challenge and priority for this squad.
After nearly a decade without a title, 2 consecutive FA cups is commendable but the fans deserves more and should demand more, and if more is not forth coming then we are in our right to want him to go.
During a season when most of the big teams in England have been massively underperforming, Arsenal looked to have a great chance of adding to their two consecutive FA Cups.
For those who questioned his lack of trophies, Wenger answered with consecutive FA cups in the last two years.
At the beginning of last season, the Gunners were riding the crest of a wave that had seen them land two consecutive FA Cups successes (their first major honours for nine years).
Now after we won 2 consecutive FA cups, they are saying we can never win the league and UCL.
Only one team has ever been knocked out in more than five consecutive FA Cup semi-finals, but that was Chelsea (six, between 1920 and 1966).
It was, bizarrely enough, City's third consecutive FA Cup defeat to Wigan.

Not exact matches

After the FA cup, we have three tricky consecutive matches.
We go into the third consecutive year in the quarter - finals of the FA Cup and that has a big meaning.
We have a rich history in the FA Cup, especially under Arsène and it's a competition I'd love to see us win for a third consecutive time.
In contrast, Arsenal, exhausted after their victory against Leicester had to compete on 3 fronts — and immediately lost 3 consecutive games beginning with the crushing defeat to Barcelona, and in so doing went out of both the FA and European Cups and collected only 9 league points to effectively drop out of, then lose, the title race!
And then as usual, we will get onboard once more for the wonderful adventure of the 4th place trophy while we (the previously consecutive 2 time FA cup winners) crash out in the Quarter - Finals.
He has just won the FA cup consecutive years and should not be dismissed as a useless manager simply because you devalue the worth of the biggest domestic cup competition available.
His opening goal in the 4 - 1 win over Fulham in the FA Cup came a staggering 20 years after his first goal in the competition, while he has now scored in a remarkable 23 consecutive top - flight seasons.
He won three Premier League titles, a consecutive trio between 1999 and 2001, and also lifted the FA Cup in ’99 and the Champions League in the same year.
Liverpool then clawed a goal back through in - form forward Mo Salah, however it wasn't enough, as Jurgen Klopp saw his side crash out of the FA Cup 4th round for the third consecutive season.
It's a great achievement to win the FA Cup on consecutive years and it just shows this is a special team and we're going to continue to win many more, I'm sure.
Hull, sadly, suffered their second consecutive 3 - 1 defeat in three days as they continue to look forward to the FA Cup final.
In consecutive matches we astonishingly surrendered the Champions League quarter - final to Chelsea and our FA Cup hopes to the old foes United.
Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League for 17 consecutive seasons under Wenger and the Frenchman led the Gunners to their first piece of silverware in nine years in May when they beat Hull in the FA Cup final.
Things may be looking rosy for this Arsenal side at the moment, with 11 consecutive wins on the bounce and the prospect of a second FA Cup final on the horizon.
And record 12 FA Cup title winner and won last 2 consecutively and only team have got their consecutive time FA Cup More...
Spurs, newly - promoted to FA WSL 2 this term, saw a run of three consecutive victories in all competitions come to an end as they were held to a 1 - 1 draw by Watford.
Stoke City will play against Queens Park Rangers after their 2 consecutive winning at FA Cups and League.
He might have the FA Cup in his sightlines but he can also cling to the possibility of a 19th consecutive Champions League qualification thanks to a freakish late goal.
The classy defender was captain in both of City's trips to Wembley last season and duly lifted both the FA Trophy and play - off trophy on consecutive weekends in the North London sunshine.
In addition to winning the League Cup and our UEFA Cup Final appearance, we also enjoyed two more League Cup Finals, an FA Cup Final and two consecutive European adventures that brought with them the scalps of Lazio, Stuttgart and Roma.
The Trotters are still nursing an FA Cup semi-final hangover it would seem, losing 5 - 0 to Stoke last month to miss out on the opportunity to feature in this weekend's show - piece against Manchester City, and are now finishing a campaign full of promise with a real whimper, with last week's 2 - 1 reverse to Sunderland at home their third consecutive defeat following disappointing outcomes away at first Fulham (3 - 0) before helped Blackburn, who were previously without a win for ten games, to end their barren streak (1 - 0).
Tonight's game at Burnley is followed by a huge FA Cup semi-final against Southampton at Wembley on Sunday, where the Blues will be aiming to reach the final for the second consecutive season.
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 campaign.
However, Tony Pulis is determined to not only end the club's third consecutive spell in the Premier League on a high with a top - ten finish but also with plenty of momentum, ahead of their FA Cup final showdown with Manchester City later this month.
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