Just like the FA
cup win last season, it will be the delicious icing on a very badly cooked cake.
If it wasn't for the outcries against the boss and the Gunners by the Gooners, they might not have won the FA
Cup they won last season.
Anthony Stokes thought he had spoiled United's party as he saw his late goal correctly ruled offside by the assistant referee, but United managed the victory and continue on their journey to defend
their cup they won last season and will now face fierce rivals Chelsea next.
The Blues are defending
the cup they won last season, and they'll be targeting another run in the competition after a less than stellar start to the season.
Not exact matches
Arsenal had
won their
last 9 games against Watford at home up until
last season when the Hornets arrived for an FA
Cup match (a competition that we hadn't lost a game in for 3
seasons) but we let our North London neighbours bully our stars off the ball and surprisingly lost the game 2 - 1 after going 2 - 0 down.
Wenger has proven yet again what a stubborn senile old fool he is by his neglecting to strengthen our defensive option,
season after
season we have put up with this and yes we did
win the fa
cup last season but given a chance to build on that Wenger has chosen to stick with a squad that already shows with key injuries how weak we are in some areas!
And yet, United don't seem to be a great deal better than when he took over, unless you really buy that
last season's Community Shield, EFL
Cup and Europa League
wins really counted as a «treble»?
Year 4 — 2009 ECL Semi Final — EPL 3rd — FA
Cup Semi Final Year 5 — 2010 League
Cup Final — ECL
Last 16 — EPL 4th Year 6 — 2011 ECL
Last 16 — EPL 3rd Year 7 — 2012 - EPL 3rd Year 8 2013 — EPL 4th and we Led the EPL for 27 Weeks of the
Season Emirates Financial Constraints ease off FA
Cup win in 2014 FA
Cup win in 2015 People talk about the 8
Season wait for a Trophy — but we had our share of Finals and Semi's.
In the
last 4
seasons, Arsenal have
won 4 FA
cups and finished higher than Spurs in the league except once and Spurs
won nothing.
The next two games will show us how Arsenal are going to react to
last week's defeat, a
win against QPR, and even a draw away to United in the
Cup would set us up for a fine end to the domestic
season.
We beat them again in the
Cup last season and today we are aiming for a quick - fire hat - trick of
wins against Hull in this competition.
Last season: we got top 4,
won the FA
cup, got knocked out both the Carling and CL, roasted by the top 6 teams.
«It was important for them
last season that they
won the FA
Cup but a team like Arsenal need more and I hope they find a way to achieve what they always look for.
And do not even mention the FA
cup of
last season, cos left for Wenger, we would not have
won that
cup, remember we were 2 goals down already before the guys decided turned things around.
Funy enough
last season we needed striker to
win d league bt we forfit it in other for giroud to mk it to d world
cup ok since ds window we stil hv not dress d isue, we got fabrigas in a plata of gold wat happen we stil forfit it cuz it wil hender ramsey nd wilshere progression, We hav campbel bt we decide to go wit our super star striker from france should i go on same tin wit squallci over cahil
Last season (Ozil) we were 4th with d FA
cup, this
season (Sanchez n Le coq) we hav d community shield, 2nd or 3rd n hopefully with d FA
cup again, with great additions who say next
season we won't
win d title and FA
cup.
Arsenal, barring an unlikely implosion, should progress to the finals of this
season's FA
Cup and have the chance to retain the crown they
won last season.
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.
Wenger managed to save his job
last season with an FA
Cup final
win over Chelsea but another finish outside the top four this
season would surely spell the end for him in north London.
Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA
Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this lett
Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this
season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than
winning a Domestic
Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this lett
Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA
cup win of last season to enter into this lett
cup win of
last season to enter into this letter.
Last year was Jose Mourinho's first
season at Man United and he started by
winning the League
Cup, but when he saw the Top Four teams pulling away from the Red Devils in the League he put all his energy and resources into
winning the Europa League as well to get a wild card entry into the Champions League.
Arsenal only just missed out on the Top Four
last season by one point after finishing very strongly and
winning 8 of their
last ten matches, and then capping it off when they beat the Champions Chelsea in the FA
Cup Final.
The 19 year - old has not yet played a League match for Leicester's first team but
won the Academy Player of the Year
last season and played a full 90 minutes against Hull in the League
Cup this
season.
We've
won it three times over the
last four
seasons so I wouldn't be expecting any major decisions in response to this FA
cup exit.
The goalposts were moved once the team started
winning the FA
cup and the fact that
last season we not only beat the champions Chelsea in the final, but Man.
Spurs finished bottom of the top six table
last season Spurs didn't
win a trophy
last season, Arsenal
won a
cup and a shield Why is Arsenal being judged on trophies while Spurs is judged based on on field performances.
Per Mertesacker was our hero in the FA
Cup Final against Chelsea
last season, and he was called up again for Arsenal's first defence of the trophy we have
won for the
last two years.
Derby heartbreakingly missed out on promotion
last season after a
last gasp Bobby Zamora winner in the Championship play - off final against Queens Park Rangers, but look well placed to go one better this
season and are also still in the FA
Cup after a local derby
win over Chesterfield at the weekend.
Last season the sides met three times with Arsenal
winning the league and FA
Cup meetings at The Emirate's Stadium and Liverpool coming out on top at Anfield 5 - 1.
OF COURSE I AM PLEASED WE
WON 3 fa
cups in
last four, now five
seasons.
Ospina has had a number of outings in big games in the Champions League and Europa League, and also played in the FA
Cup final
win over Chelsea
last season in a big show of faith from Wenger.
However, for the all - conquering Bavarians, the French wide man has been in imperious form as Bayern
won the Bundesliga, German
Cup and Uefa Champions League
last season, with the 30 - year - old being their star performer along the way in their Treble.
However, there can be no question that the Spanish tactician would still be the right man for Arsenal — and at precisely the right time; another FA
Cup win should be on the horizon this
season to continue that growing «
winning feeling» at the club after such a long silverware drought prior to
last season.
Arsenal
won the FA
Cup last season.
After the end of
last season, including the brilliant 4 - 0 demolition of Aston Villa in the FA
cup final, and then our pre-
season which saw us record a first
win over a Jose Mourinho team, we have come to expect a lot, and rightly so.
The 75 - year - old thinks that despite the FA
Cup victory
last season, fans will not be happy if the Gunners fail to
win another competition this year.
Winning an FA
Cup in your
last season after years without a trophy would have been ideal for him to bow out on.
«In the Carabao
Cup, after
winning last season, we lost in the quarter - final but we lost like Manchester United likes to lose — with dignity, with fair play, with participation in the happiness of a giant killer,» he is quoted as saying by The Sun, who make a direct correlation between Mourinho's comments and City.
He scored eleven goals as he helped Manchester United
win the League
Cup and the Europa League
last season.
Denayer made 28 appearances for Istanbul giants Galatasaray in all competitions
last season and
won the Turkish
Cup in his debut
season.
A 2 - 0
win in FA
Cup third round at the Emirates
last season, quickly followed up two months later by a 1 - 0 away
win at White Hart Lane in the league.
Szczesny found himself dropped from the Arsenal team for much of
last season, with Colombian shot - stopper David Ospina playing in his place in the Premier League, though he did still manage to start in goal in the FA
Cup final
win over Aston Villa.
Jon get out the rubber room your still complaining about
winning trophies and competing for
cup finals and the premiership a mere two
seasons ago we have
won 5 and been in 8 final games where in
last ten
seasons where are you?
Wenger seems to have developed a renewed hunger to
win more silverware this
season, following that FA
Cup win at the end of
last season, and it's that attitude which will make Arsenal more dangerous than before.
With teammates Willian and Eden Hazard both impressing as the club
won both the Premier League and the Capital One
Cup last time round, the former Fiorentina man could well have few chances to make his mark next
season should he stay.
Mlssoccer.com reports that Keane wants to
win a fourth MLS
Cup and also wants to try and help LA Galaxy become the first American side to
win the CONCACAF Champions League — a competition that's been
won by a Mexican side for the
last nine
seasons since Saprissa from Costa Rica
won it in 2005.
Wenger makes mistakes but so does Pep at City, look at the team they had
last season and they didn't
win the EPL or FA
Cup?
Ivan, So what your saying is that the FA
cup doesn't represent a trophy now that Arsenal have
won it three times in the
last four
seasons?
«We finished third in the league and
won the FA
Cup last season.
If leaving with a trophy was the ideal time for him to leave Arsenal then surely he would have left
last season when we
won the FA
Cup.