Sentences with phrase «cup games against»

KEY FACT: Wigan have won their last two cup games against City — the 2013 FA Cup final and a quarter - final away tie the following season MATCH ODDS: Wigan 20/1 Draw 7/1 Man City 1/6 bet365 Pick: Man City win & over 3.5 goals @ 11/10 GRAEME SAYS: Wigan might get a replay but have to go with City, but could be close... 0 - 2

But as a manager, make no mistake: he is deeply, deeply average (except in one - off cup games against superior opposition, in which he's quite good at winning ugly in a Mourinho - lite kinda way).

fa cup games against leeds and a 2nd division team whos name I cant remember are proof of that.

But the Arsenal boss is aware that these cup games against lower league opposition do not always go according to plan.

Daniel Sturridge has been racking up the 15 minute substitute cameos and been solid throughout, while Dutch left fullback Patrick van Aanholt impressed in Cup games against Newcastle and Ipswich.

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.

For one thing he did start both of our FA cup games against Hull and Brighton.

Then we can rotate for the FA Cup and Caraboa Cup games against Nottm Forest and Chelsea, so most of our first team will be well rested for at least 10 days when we go and visit Bournemouth on the 14th of January.

Debuchy is not what we need, he is at best useful for EFL cup games against lesser division teams and Europa league groupstage games, not in d Knockout round where we might face Dortmund, ATM, Celtic etc.....

Because Arsenal will not allow Southampton to do the double in the Cup games against us this season.

You are talking about the FA cup game against Sutton, who cares about it which is not our dream.

It reminds me of last season's home FA Cup game against Watford, absolute rubbish!

The mid-trio playmaker is ofcourse Ozil now backed up by Iwobi as we've seen in the FA Cup game against Hull City.

Is he just teasing us or is Wenger really thinking of risking our key player in a cup game against lower league opposition after all the injury problems we have already been hit with?

Then they have the league cup game against Hull City on the Tuesday after and Hull could do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to Stoke and the TV folk have done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their final UCL game the next Tuesday.

I really want to see the kind of movement we saw in that FA cup game against Spuds last year.

But when Jack got injured in the first Cup game against Chelsea it was expected that Ramsey would come back to replace him.

That is why it is great news today that Francis Coquelin has recovered more quickly than expected and is back in training, in fact, according to the Mirror today, Francis is even likely to be in the squad for next weekends FA Cup game against Burnley in preparation for the midweek League game against Southampton.

We are just 7 days away from the League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which could make or break our chances of catching our neighbours up in the title race, but conversely this FA Cup game against Southampton could also be just as important.

Have seen Alex Iwobi on a couple of occasions including the cup game against Sunderland.

This was the first time that both Ozil and Cazorla were excelling in the FA cup game against Middlesbrough.

But even though Coquelin should be back in action very soon, he will not be available for the Capital One cup game against Tottenham tomorrow.

Other than that 3 goals in a one of cup game against Manu should also demonstrate that we have the ability.

I can bet, Campbell, Iwobi, Oxchabo, Chambers, De Aberu and Elneny are all going to be started by the Boss for our home FA Cup game against Burnley.

Walcott should further be rested to start the FA Cup game against visiting Hull City.

Whilst Leicester players rested for 2 weeks, Arsenal had an FA Cup game and a European Cup game against Barcelona and then a difficult game away to Man United.

But wenger did not name Sanchez in the squad against our title rivals, and after the game Le Prof revealed that Alexis had had a «minor setback» and would now miss the busy Christmas period but would be ready for the New Year games which was expected to start with this weekend's cup game against Sunderland.

The game we have next is the FA cup game against Lincoln FC.

And if you win the EL, you'll get a bonus UEFA Super Cup game against the CL winner.

The latest bad news is that Olivier Giroud could be out until February as his hamstring problem sustained in the Caraboa Cup game against West Ham is worse than we originally thought and is expected to now have no chance of leaving the club in January whether he wants to or not.

Ibe will be cup - tied for Sunday's FA Cup game against Aston Villa, although Rodgers will be hoping that Sterling can shake off the recent allegations and turn in a decisive performance that could book the Reds an FA Cup final against either Arsenal or Reading.

One of those games should have been the FA Cup game against Forest, and Coquelin's omission from the team sort of confirms that he is on the transfer list, but how many more is Wenger looking to offload, and how can he afford to replace them?

Last season I attended the FA Cup game against Watford and out of all of my trips to the Emirates this was the worst, the atmosphere was flat and I could see many empty seats — whilst the fans in the stadium were more interested in taking selfies and recording every set piece instead of cheering their team on.

It was a typical cup game against a team who comes here to fight and take their chances, with us trying to score.

But poor Gabriel only lasted for just over half an hour before Wenger had to cut Koscielny's rest short as the Brazilian went down with a hamstring injury and will now miss Monday's FA Cup game against Manchester United.

Before a recent European Cup game against a team from Greece, in which he set up the winning basket in double overtime, Byrd was coolly supervising the placement of advertisements at courtside.

So I have no qualms in reporting with glee that Robin van Persie will miss the FA cup game against us after picking up his own ankle injury.

Klopp lost star midfielder Emre Can in the EFL Cup game against Burton Albion and will want to avoid unnecessary injuries.

And then he is sure to start the Capital One cup game against Sheffield Wednesday in just over a week.

Ten minutes into a Cup game against Chelsea, an unjust dismissal for Plucky Lowerleague - Leftback would be no fun at all.

This idea grew when Wenger played the striker for the whole of the Carabao Cup game against Doncaster, but Metro have reported that Mourinho has backed Wenger and said that it would not be a good idea to play a player who is not quite match ready even if they are as important to a team as Sanchez is to Arsenal and what caused Mourinho to comment on the issue was being asked about his own use of Luke Shaw

If you look at youtube and the world cup game against Argentina, Ospina was awesome and definately affected the outcome of the match, argentina were unable to beat him.

When we saw the Arsenal team sheet for the Capital One Cup game against Southampton last week, we knew that the Gunners would be up against it with the Saints having a great start to the season and able to pick more of their first choice players.

Our BFG did not play in the Carabao Cup game against Norwich City on Tuesday either, so it seems clear that Arsene Wenger was keeping the aging centre back fresh in case we needed him for the visit of Swansea City in the Premier League this weekend.

Ryan Giggs has named his first Wales squad today for their China Cup game against China in Nanning next Thursday.

The former Nacional star bit Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's World Cup game against Italy and was subsequently suspended for nine international matches.

Chelsea are likely to rest some key players with the FA Cup game against Southampton in mind.

During a cup game against Maidstone United, Millwall Lionesses» goalie Pauline Cope was so bored with the lack of action in her half of the field that she moved up to the halfway line to play as a makeshift sweeper.

Ndidi was missing from Genk's training ahead of their cup game against Eupen, and several sources in Belgium confirmed that, the 20 year old is in England for medicals with Leicester City.

Ndidi was missing from Genk's training ahead of their cup game against Eupen, and...