Sentences with phrase «cup exit»

A third round cup exit against a third tier team would be a new depth to the crisis that has plagued the team this term.

Early cup exits and a bottom half finish would be a relatively disastrous season.

Having just suffered a disappointing cup exit on midweek, the home were not in the mood to grab anything other than a win.

What can possibly cheer you up after two devastating cup exits?

Watford boss Walter Mazzarri was under increasing pressure after an embarrassing FA Cup exit at Millwall and seven games without a win in the league.

Leicester City face Manchester United in one of four games between now and the first of the year in all competitions with the foxes looking to put their League Cup exit at the hands of Manchester City behind them and build on their current position of 8th in the Premier League.

A late Wayne Rooney penalty sealed a 1 - 0 win for Roy Hodgson's men in another disappointing display just months after their calamitious World Cup exit at the group stages.

The West Ham side were not babies on their own but were just a victim of facing a better opposition on a night many were skeptical about Arsenal chance of winning the game following an EFL Cup exit at home against Southampton.

Chelsea are not accustomed to having nothing to play for in mid-March, but that is the situation they currently find themselves in following Champions League and FA Cup exits in the last couple of weeks.

The carling cup exits perfectly exposed some of our deficiencient players.

Already reeling from their shock midweek Carabao Cup exit at Bristol City, the need for Jose Mourinho's men to get back to winning ways was heightened by Pep Guardiola's team racking up a 17th successive league win earlier in the day.

The Clarets will be monitoring a potential injury to Ashley Westwood sustained in his sides Third Round cup exit to Leeds United on Tuesday evening.

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I would have been so happy if we just knocked ourselves out of the EFL straight away, and I would have been ok with an FA Cup exit too if it meant our players could focus on more important targets.

Everyone else is fit and that includes striker Chris Wood who was left out last week because of the travelling he'd done, returning from Peru after New Zealand's World Cup exit only the day before the game.

Up until a couple of years ago these was an early FA cup exit thrown in for good measure, so there is definitely a recurring theme here and it is really starting to get on my pip and I'm sure that many other Arsenal fans feel the same way.

The winning feeling is infectious for younger players and this under - 18 side looked really pleased to go the distance and banish any memories of their early FA youth cup exit, this is one of the most exciting under - 18 sides the club has had produced since 2011.

Their disastrous FA Cup exit lacked any regulars.

Aside from the F.A. Cup exit to Peterborough, further wins against Bristol City and Nottingham Forest were definitely a shot in arm for all of the Villa faithful.

Would be wing - backs Cresswell and Antonio both picked up thigh strains during the Old Trafford cup exit in the week and it seems that top - scorer Antonio is definitely out while Cresswell will have a late fitness test.

Even at this stage of the season, there was an eery predictability about our Capital One Cup exit, and with it, United's chances of any silverware all but disappeared.

Looking back at the week preceding the League Cup exit does show that the club is a good place, so while a cup defeat is always diapoitning, the biggest worry for the fans and Arsene Wenger is about the injuries picked up by Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and Theo Walcott.

The Black Cats, who are searching for their first top - flight win of the campaign, will be hoping to bounce back from their EFL Cup exit on Wednesday, with Sofiane Boufal's wonder strike securing a narrow win for Saints.

Mourinho's side crashed out of the Champions League after a tame home defeat to Sevilla and also suffered an embarrassing League Cup exit against second - tier Bristol City.

They are now looking to bounce back from a sickening League Cup exit midweek with a visit from Liverpool with their new manager in tow.

The confident and expressive personalities of many Italians is also something that can irritate non-latin nations, who often cheer an Italian World Cup exit.

BUt there is nothing we can do about that and so the Gunners just need to focus on our own form and results, starting with a replay of our FA cup exit of a few weeks ago.

Manchester City's chance of winning four titles evaporated following their FA Cup exit on Monday as they were being beaten by League One side, Wigan Athletic.

A 3 - 0 win over West Ham was sandwiched in - between another shock cup exit, this time in the FA Cup to Championship side Bolton, who won a replay 2 - 0 at the Stadium of Light.

If we beat Spurs on Saturday we'll soon forget an early cup exit to another Premier League club.

That is why I was very disappointed with the Carling cup exit.

Chris Hughton made 11 changes following Brighton's midweek Carabao Cup exit but just one from their last Premier League outing, at Bournemouth, as Bruno replaced Liam Rosenior at right - back.

A disappointing cup exit isn't ideal preparation for an important Premier League home game, but this is what the Liverpool squad will be contending with tomorrow.

Friend has two previous West Ham games under his belt this season — the home league win over Huddersfield and the EFL Cup exit at Arsenal.

The home defeat against United, which was sandwiched between the back - to - back Champions League quarterfinal losses to Liverpool, will be held up as a reminder that City can be beaten and perhaps even caught next season, while the FA Cup exit against Wigan Athletic may go down as the game that cost Guardiola and his team a domestic treble.

Of course we might not be exactly buzzing with self - belief ourselves but at least we are coming up against a team that is also yet to win this season, with a draw against Southampton and a loss to Chelsea before this league cup exit.

That cup exit was not just a bad day at the office for the Gunners, it was one of those matches where things just went right for the visiting side.

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Even without the penalty tonight we had lots of chances to really get at Barca and did not take them, just like in our FA cup exit to Watford and our damaging defeat to Swansea in the Premier League recently, to name but a few of many games like this.

The backlash after this weekend followed by an FA cup exit and a Barcelona spanking though might be just the thing we need!

Great strikers like lewa cavani aguero can create goals for themselves if the team mates are not helping Lastly, non worries about the league cup exit, the main worry is that the ghost has returned.

The full back flashed Sofiane Boufal's inviting ball into the net to double the visitors advantage to make it two nil (2 - 0) condemning Arsenal to an EFL Cup exit, and it seemed that anything connected to Chelsea somehow gets the better of Arsenal even when the player is in a Southampton shirt.

I am sure the lads will be desperate to get revenge for our FA Cup exit.

As The Mirror reports, some sections of Arsenal fans are calling for Wenger's head amid their faltering Premier League title bid and Champions League and FA Cup exits.

And if you think that our cup exit last night was a blow, just look at West Ham who were pasted 4 - 1 by the under fire Man United and that was with quite a few of their regular first team stars playing, so they will be seriously low in confidence for the visit of Arsenal.