Sentences with phrase «cup trophy as»

And with the Gunners being the holders of the FA cup trophy as well, many Arsenal fans seem to think that all we have to do is to turn up and collect the silverware.

We might well end up with another FA cup trophy as well but something has changed, at least in the way the Gunners and our ability to really challenge the top of the table is perceived by the football media.

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And every time you win a cup or a trophy, Ferguson says, you should bring every member of your staff into that canteen — «the laundry girls, the canteen staff, the groundsmen» — and pour the champagne for everyone because it's their trophy as much as the players».

Man Utd won a European Trophy this season, as well as the League Cup.

The first would cement the club (and Wenger) as the all - time best in the oldest Football Cup in the world (which has a nice ring to it and winning at Wembley always is a great feeling), the 2nd would also be very sweet as we could use adding a European Football Cup to our trophy cabinet (and the bigger one is out of reach for the moment)!

Europa league trophy and either of FA or Mickey Mouse cup will be excellent for me regardless of where we finish as champions league and europa league will be secured.

They may have managed to cancel St Totteringham's Day this season, but the fact is that Sp * rs are still going to end this campaign without a trophy as usual, while Arsenal are still in with a real chance of winning their third FA Cup in four years.

Having grown accustomed to winning trophies on a regular basis, United will hope that the FA Cup is merely the start of things to come as the pressure will certainly be on next season to make progress and raise those expectations.

The year before that Arsenal won the Asia trophy, the Emirates Cup and the Community Shield as we won every game before losing our opening league match 2 - 0 at home to West Ham.

I am not suggesting that he will field a weaker team with that FA cup replay in mind, as securing a Champions League place is more important to Liverpool (he would love the top four to be called the Rodgers trophy believe me).

Williams won his first Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP by producing nine goals and 16 assists in L.A.'s 26 postseason games, including a league - leading seven points in their five - game Cup final vs. the New York Rangers.

The FA cup is a trophy that we've won a lot recently and it practically saved Arsene's career here, so I think with the amount of players we've got, we're likely to do well in the competition again as it is not the main priority of the other big teams.

The experienced World Cup winner has featured in all seven of Man United's Premier League fixtures this term and though the 30 - year - old has a lot to offer van Gaal as the Dutch manager looks to fight on multiple fronts and the having won the Champions League in 2013 and when questioned as to whether his side could win the showpiece trophy Schweinsteiger stated;

One of the features of the last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA cup trophy won in dramatic fashion last season to defend.

He brushes aside such claims to fame as the fact that he donated the only gold cup in American bridge competition — the von Zedtwitz trophy for the Life Masters Pairs event, the 44th running of which will be an important feature of the Summer National championships beginning this weekend in Washington, D.C..

Also he wont be remembered so much by the trophys he won such as PL titles or FA cup titles, but the ones he did nt — 4th place «titles»!

Exactly, Kroenke is using arsenal as a source of capital for his other projects in the US, and Wenger is playing along that's why he was rewarded with a new contract, football and trophies is no longer a priority at Arsenal, Wenger even admitted it by saying he did not need to win the FA cup to save his job, meaning if we had lost the final he would still be with us since he had already made the board money by finishing fourth

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the bookies have got this one right, as the men whose job it is to predict the most likely outcomes have installed the Gunners as favourites to win the FA cup again in May, retaining the trophy that we won last year at Wembley to end the nine year wait for silverware.

Since 2006 until we won the FA cup we rediculed as top4 team that can't wip even a cup trophy now we start wenning fa cup almost back to back we miss top4 and fans are now crying for but, no one gave Wenger credit for it for two decades.

You could say that the really big one is the final game of the season against Aston Villa at Wembley, as it gives Arsenal the chance of a trophy and also to become the most successful club ever in the history of the FA cup.

Losing that or even just failing to win could put a massive dent in the confidence of the team as well as harming our league position, so is it time to risk elimination from the cup to give Arsenal the best possible chance of the trophy we all want most?

In 2010 he was forced to sit out Southampton's Football League Trophy trophy victory and last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the FTrophy trophy victory and last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the Ftrophy victory and last year he watched from the sidelines as Arsenal ended their nine - year trophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the Ftrophy drought with an extra-time victory over Hull City in the FA Cup.

Let's be practical, if Wenger, other managers and the clubs were that bothered about players getting enough recovery time, they could cut out these meaningless out of season «trophies» such as the Emirates Cup.

Remember the FA cup 2014, our first trophy and not - so - important to many Gooners but that gave our team a real belief in themselves as a unit.

Players that are always OK with the FA cup and 4th trophy are signing new contracts everyday, those that wants to win major trophies see that those silverware can not be won with such players, OG as main striker..

The Fa cup is the biggest and most famous domestic cup competition in world football, if you don't rate it as a major trophy then it's not not me and you thinking on different levels, it's you and the footballing world.

A lack of trophies could come back to haunt them as they fell short in the FA Cup at the weekend and look likely to finish second in the Premier League this season, and perhaps that could work against them this summer if top clubs around Europe are looking to convince their best players to leave north London.

During his time with Barcelona, the player has managed to fill his trophy cabinet to the brim, as since his arrival, the Spanish giants have won one Champions League, two La Liga titles, one Supercopa De Espanya, one Copa Del Rey, one European Super Cup and one Club World Cup.

Look around the stadium and see the trophies listed as Arsenal successes and you will see every league and cup win highlighted and won under different managers.

While some will point to the fact that Francis Coquelin has made a big difference as well as other players like Laurent Koscielny being an improvement on what Arsenal had before, some Arsenal fans feel that nowhere near enough credit has been given to our former defensive star and current assistant manager Steve Bould, who was a player when Arsene Wenger arrived and helped us to win three titles, five domestic trophies and the UEFA Cup Winners» Cup.

The Argentine may have not won any trophies in the last calendar year, but he was inspirational as part of the Argentina side that got to the 2014 World Cup final.

Nevertheless, it may well ruffle a few feathers but with a 16 - point gap at the top of the Premier League table, Guardiola will likely have his mind focused on winning trophies this season as he also prepares for the League Cup final this weekend.

So much to say about this: 1) The attitude: Are we the only top team to celebrate wins like an FA cup tie or a MANC team that had 2 - 3 players part of there XI not fit or not even available... we are AFC and as such should be coming into almost every match with a winning mentality and anything but a win seen as a bad result!Let's stop taking selfies and dressing room pictures as if we've just won a major trophy!!!

Jose Mourinho and Chelsea go into this Sunday's League Cup final at Wembley as favourites to pick up the first trophy of the season against Tottenham, with both clubs aiming to win their fifth title.

The most recent good moment I have enjoyed as an Arsenal fan, is the FA cup we won in 2014, after several years of not winning a trophy!

And depending on the result at White Hart Lane, the FA cup replay with Hull City could become even more crucial as it could by then represent our last best hope of a trophy this season.

However, Gabriel must get used to the demands very quickly as Arsenal aim to solidify second place in the Premier League and win their 12th FA Cup trophy.

Good thing about a Cup final is that since it's just one match, any team could lift the trophy as compared to the PL trophy.

Arsene Wenger has had a bit of a balancing act to perform as he prepares Arsenal for the first step in the defence of our FA cup trophy.

Albeit winning the domestic cup competition can not be as significant as winning the Premier League or the Champions League — two most coveted pieces of silverware for any top club — it would have given Wenger's wizards the relief of having finally won a trophy after so long, as well as the belief to continue in the same vein in the future.

Manchester City claimed the first major trophy of the season as Pep Guardiola's side comfortably beat Arsenal 3 - 0 at Wembley to win the League Cup.

So will today be an important day for the Premier League title challenge as well as our defence of the FA cup trophy?

Arsenal rallied towards the end of the season and did end up breaking the trophy drought by winning the FA cup but I fully believe that injuries cost us the title that year, just as they did last year.

But the FA Cup is a very important trophy for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal are the holders after winning the third FA Cup Final in just four seasons, but Le Prof acknowledges that the crucial Third Round ties can be the most difficult test on the way to the later stages.

This season we are as close to the bottom as we are to the top of the premiership and nothing to realistically play for except the FA cup and the fourth place trophy.

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Arsene Wenger took exception to that and pointed to our back to back FA cup trophy wins to prove his point, as reported by the Daily Mail.

The 18 year old captained the Nigerian national side at the Fifa under 17's World Cup in 2015 and was named the Player of the Tournament as his side went on to lift the trophy.

With the Italian Super Cup in their trophy cabinet too after their win over Juventus in Doha last month, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic as the club now plot ways to strengthen their squad this month.

Even if the Gunners do not go on to follow up today's FA cup semi-final win over Man City by beating Chelsea in the final, Wenger will still be tied as the manager with the most wins, but if he and the lads can actually lift the trophy then he will be the top with seven.