Sentences with phrase «last piece of silverware»

Liverpool take a healthy two goal lead into the Europa League second leg against Manchester United, but can be rest assured that things won't be easy at Old Trafford, as the Old Enemy will look to pull all straps to ensure that they knock the Reds out of contention for their last piece of silverware for the season.

Our last piece of silverware had come 17 long years before when we pipped Preston to the title on goal average in 1953.

This also means that the Europa League, Arsenal's first trophy in Europe for a long while, could potentially be Arsene Wenger's last piece of silverware with the club, after the three Premier League titles, seven FA Cups and seven Community Shields he won for us.

Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger have a lot to thank the FA cup for, especially over the last couple of years when it provided the trophy that had been so elusive since a winning penalty by Patrick Vieira in 2005 brought the last piece of silverware to the club for almost a decade.

Even though Tottenham have been doing a little better in recent years they have never come really close to the Premier League title and the last piece of silverware they won was that funny three handled thing that has had more names than Zsa Zsa Gabor and although Rose was at the club back then he was not a first team player.

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I still feel that we should be concentrating on the Premier League since there's a good chance we can progress to the knockout rounds of EL with playing Wilshere, Iwobi, Nelson, Debuchy, etc... I don't care much for Europa League in general, and want us out of that competition, but it is another piece of silverware, and in the end it might be the best chance of getting back into CL (just like ManU did last season).

With us winning effectively 3 pieces of major silverware in the last 2 seasons as a direct result of investment in the squad, logic would dictate that spending even more would lead to greater success.

For the first time as a Blues manager Mourinho failed to win a single piece of silverware last season and was quick to address the problem by signing Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas.

How they have loved to poke fun and laugh at Arsenal in recent years as we failed to win any major piece of silverware from the 2005 FA cup win over Manchester United on penalties until that dramatic fightback from 2 - 0 down to beat Hull City at Wembley last May.

In turn, they'll be expected to wrap up the league crown sooner rather than later, but for now the focus will be on the cup and sealing Valverde's first piece of silverware since taking charge last summer.

Sheffield Wednesday — 100/1 A solitary strike from Nigel Pearson gave Sheffield Wednesday an EFL Cup final victory over Manchester United in 1991 — the club's last piece of major silverware.

Aaron Ramsey was one of Arsenal's star performers last season en route to yet another year with Champions League football and also the Gunners» first piece of silverware in eight years in the form of the FA Cup.

As to why the Brazilian would ever want to leave a team that featured both Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez — and challenges for every available piece of silverware, every year — I ask this in response: When's the last time you watched the final eight minutes of Barcelona's 2017 Champions League quarterfinal against PSG?

Carlo Ancelotti, in just his first full season in charge at Stamford Bridge, brought in two of England's most coveted pieces of silverware last season when winning a Premier League and FA Cup double, which basically leaves him just one trophy short of completing a personal trouble.

While Spurs» starting lineup may be more predictable, there's plenty of uncertainty over which players Mourinho will trust to fight for the last available piece of silverware.