However the last five times we have faced them in
league and cup over the past couple of years we have lost four and drawn one.
North London has prevailed in four of the last 29 clashes with west London in this fixture in
league and cup over the past 11 years.
Not exact matches
In turn, it's no surprise that there is concern
over his future, although he's certainly enjoyed a successful stint in Spain with a La Liga title, three Champions
League trophies
and the FIFA Club World
Cup now to his name.
We won the F.A
cup and Charity shield twice consecutively, had an excellent pre-season winning the Emirates Cup and of course secured that coveted top four spot in a league, that over the last couple of years has become extremely competitive and increasingly difficult to do well
cup and Charity shield twice consecutively, had an excellent pre-season winning the Emirates
Cup and of course secured that coveted top four spot in a league, that over the last couple of years has become extremely competitive and increasingly difficult to do well
Cup and of course secured that coveted top four spot in a
league, that
over the last couple of years has become extremely competitive
and increasingly difficult to do well in.
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&raqu
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&raqu
and Europa
League wins really counted as a «treble»?
I think we should be more concerned with the
cup final
and not this filthy stats, the
league is
over and the dust is settling down.
I bet he watched videos of Mourinho's masterclass against Chelsea in the
league over and over again before the FA
cup final.
I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions
league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa
league over the FA
cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing
Once all the EPL games are
over the focus will switch to the FA
cup final at Wembley where Arsenal will fact the
league champions Chelsea,
and I feel that the goals could be intrinsically linked, with an unlikely top four spot likely to give us a great boost
and help us get to Wembley full of form
and confidence.
Just as the Gunners are getting
over our own injury crisis
and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win
over Hull City in the FA
cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier
League game throws up an away game with the reigning EPL champions.
There has been a lot of debate among the Arsenal faithful
over the last few weeks about what the FA
cup might mean to us
and whether it would be enough to calm down the fans that have had to yet again see our team get nowhere near the Premier
League title or the Champions
League trophy.
The Sun reported earlier this week that Ryan Giggs had been given more training
and matchday responsibilities at the club, as the Old Trafford hierarchy begin to lose faith in the Dutch manager, while Paul Scholes became the latest Red Devils great to slam the manager following the unimpressive, last - minute 1 - 0 victory
over League One Sheffield United in the FA
Cup [BT Sport as per the Mirror].
The Tigers have lost only once in the
league under new manager Marco Silva, and that was against runaway Premier League champions Chelsea, whilst being able to boast of wins over Liverpool and Bournemouth, as well as a draw at Old Trafford and a 2 - 1 League Cup second - leg win over Manchester United to
league under new manager Marco Silva,
and that was against runaway Premier
League champions Chelsea, whilst being able to boast of wins over Liverpool and Bournemouth, as well as a draw at Old Trafford and a 2 - 1 League Cup second - leg win over Manchester United to
League champions Chelsea, whilst being able to boast of wins
over Liverpool
and Bournemouth, as well as a draw at Old Trafford
and a 2 - 1
League Cup second - leg win over Manchester United to
League Cup second - leg win
over Manchester United to boost.
Arsenal also registered a 2 - 0 win
over AS Monaco in the 2nd leg of their Champions
League R - 16 tie
and progressed to the semifinals of this season's FA
Cup after beating Manchester United in the quarterfinals at Old Trafford.
We are already hearing about other clubs around Europe securing the transfer of players, such as Mats Hummels to Bayern Munich, so even though the Premier
League season is not properly
over until after Manchester United play Bournemouth tonight
and then Louis van Gaal takes his troubled team to Wembley in the FA
cup, Arsenal fans are already eager for news of a signing.
Pellegrini has spent an incredible # 172m on just eleven players since taking
over at the Etihad Stadium,
and although he won the Premier
League and Capital One
Cup double in his first campaign with the club, he looks set to finish trophyless this term
and possibly even out of the top four after a surprisingly poor recent run of form.
Who knows, he could do better than three FA
cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions
league participation
and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for
over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is
and the best their ever will be
and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.
Perhaps now that another season is
over with Tottenham or Leicester likely to win the
league / finish above us
and not even the FA
cup as a consolation prize, people will wake
and speak up?!
Our season in
league is
over, FA
cup was disaster not to mention mickey mouse
and for god sake another city game they trashed us
and humiliated.
Three of those trophies came all at once in the 2000 - 01 campaign when the Merseyside outfit clinched a unique treble consisting of a domestic
League and FA
Cup double, while they triumphed
over Spanish side Alaves in a dramatic UEFA
Cup final.
The Blues advanced in the FA
Cup over the weekend
and still boast a five point lead at the top of the Premier
League table as they march on in search of silverware.
The Women's World
Cup is
over, the Copa America is
over,
and the only matches to watch right now are the Gold
Cup, Wimbledon, Baseball, NBA Summer
League basketball
and reruns of Game of Thrones.
The French striker limped out of our
League Cup win
over the Hammers,
and reports are claiming that he will now miss the entirety of January with a hamstring problem, likely ending any hopes his potential suitors had in signing him.
With Premier
League, Europa
League and League Cup games coming thick
and fast
over the next month or so, they'll need quality
and depth across the squad,
and welcoming this quintet back into the fold having shaken off various injury issues will undoubtedly be a welcome sight for Wenger
and his men.
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.
Last year when we played Chelsea in the
League Cup, Wenger had more than one reason to put youth
and let Chelsea's B team roll us
over.
Van Gaal has opted to use the 3 -5-2 system that was so effectively employed by his Netherlands side at the World
Cup since he took
over at Old Trafford, with Red Devils stars Daley Blind
and Robin Van Persie thriving particularly in the 5 - 1 victory
over Spain, but it has not been quite as effective in the Premier
League and United's best winning run this season actually came in the midst of a brief switch to a 4 -4-2 diamond system.
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 FA
Cup.
The German
cup was attained with victory in the final
over Stuttgart before Arjen Robben's late goal clinched the Champions
League against Dortmund
and completed the clean sweep of trophies.
Fact, Arsenal have lost countless players
over the past 10 years TH14, RVP, Fabregas just for starters
and still managed the consistency of Top 4, one CL final, 1 FA
Cup and 2 league cup fina
Cup and 2
league cup fina
cup finals.
Ferguson, whose side host Norwich on Saturday, is eyeing up his second treble, winning the Premier
League, FA
Cup and Champions
League in the same season,
and has called on his players to stand up
and be counted as the pressure mounts
over the final weeks of the season.
Chelsea have been strong
over the past decade winning Pl, FA
cup and Champions
league and there goes someone saying only 3 games.
With the season in England now officially
over following the FA
Cup final at the weekend, Telegraph Sport have published their list of the top 20 players in the Barclays Premier
League and once again Chelsea are the ones left claiming the number one spot.
While they have hope of silverware in the form of the FA
Cup and Champions
League, there are still question marks
over this current United squad as they continue to show signs of faltering.
He finished his career with 650
league goals, 77 international goals — with three in several FIFA World
Cup Final appearances,
and an unofficial goal total of
over 1100.
Unlike many of his predecessors, Pochettino has won the backing of the vast majority of the White Hart Lane faithful, buoyed by the Argentine's faith in young players, the
League Cup final appearance,
and those eye - catching triumphs
over Chelsea
and Arsenal in the Premier
League.
English
leagues will not take legal action against FIFA
over the decision to switch the Qatar 2022 World
Cup to November
and December, despite it hugely disrupting the season of the Premier
League and Football
League, according to BBC Sport.
All eyes will be on the FA
Cup and Champions
League in terms of their hopes of landing silverware this year, but without January reinforcements, question marks will surely be raised
over their ability to finish the campaign strongly unless their top players rediscover their best form.
He eventually made his debut for Barca in their 4 - 1
cup victory
over neighbours Espanyol on January 6,
and has gone on to make 16 La Liga outings for the reigning European champions, as well as a further three outings in the Champions
League.
Over the last 4 years, Arsenal have been on average the 4th best team in England so for them to win 3 trophies in 4 years would have paid off massively if you had placed a wager on this, slam him all you want for Premier
and Champions
League failures recently, but give him equal amounts of praise for his FA
Cup brilliance.
Despite enduring his fair share of criticism
over his new side's playing style, Louis van Gaal had inspired United to third place in the Premier
League and the quarter - finals of the FA
Cup, with a Capital One
Cup humbling at MK Dons the only major blot on his copy book.
And because the win
over Hull means we now face a
cup quarter - final with Watford this weekend instead of the Premier
League clash with West Brom, as well as there being an international break around the corner, Wenger only has one Premier
League game to get through before Cazorla can come back into the centre of midfield.
He is the only manager to lead a club besides those two top clubs to a title in
over a decade
and won titles in the Europa
League, Super
Cup, Supercoppa de Espana,
and Copa Del Ray in his five years with the club.
Let's put it this way, if they had a choice between an FA
Cup but not getting champions
league football
over champions
league football
and no silverware, what do you think they'd prefer?
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and before Capital One
Cup final
If we play like this in F.A.
cup and C
league our season could be
over in the next week.
if you can paper
over a crack with a Europa
league cup then it will do more for the fans that support arsenal football club through thick
and thin then those that just complain.
To be honest the season is 3 weeks old
and i have had enough already cos i know nothing is going to change 3rd or 4th finish quarter finalist champs
league and a decent
cup run who can be excited about that its the same every season the club has lost its ambition
and until that changes this will just continue season after season at this moment in time i hate being an arsenal supporter
and having followed them for
over 30 years i never thought i would ever say that!!
Arsenal booked their place in the
League Cup final after a 2 - 1 win
over Chelsea at the Emirates on Wednesday night with an own goal from Antonio Rudiger
and Granit Xhaka getting on the scoresheet.
With some really big games coming up in the Champions
League and FA
cup,
and with the terrible run of injury problems that have beset the Gunners for well
over a year, I thought he might have hedged his bets.