Sentences with phrase «league cup games although»

Now, he is no stranger to this position, he played there even for Arsenal in two league cup games although one of them was against Coventry City if I am not mistaken.

Not exact matches

Arsenal are preparing for tonight's League Cup game and, although we have great deep looking squad, there are still quite a lot of injury news to report.

Although Ramos was sacked by Spurs just before the first anniversary of his appointment and left them bottom of the Premier League table after eight games of the 2008 - 09 season, he is still the last manager to guide the White Hart Lane club to a major trophy, having lifted the Carling Cup in February 2008.

Preston sit six points off of Leeds in play - off places, and will be more than happy with their campaign thus far, although it wouldn't be unknown for a team to rest a number of players in the cup in order to concentrate on their league game.

Arsenal have already got through to the next round of the FA cup without the Spaniard at right back, although it was a much harder game against Preston North End than we would have liked, and there is good reason to expect us to do the same away to Swansea City in the Premier League this weekend.

The boss then must surely make many changes for our League Cup match against Reading tomorrow, so as to give our tired stars a chance to recover for the next League game at Sunderland next weekend, although our manager is keen for us to get back to winning ways against the Championship side.

This season he has got the 19 year - old Chuba Akpom remaining with the first team squad although he has only made one substitute appearance in the Premier League plus a few minor cup games.

In fact the England midfielder has looked sharper and more dangerous than Ozil so far, although he has only played two full games in the League cup and the Europa League so far.

Just as we did last season, Arsenal added the Community Shield to the FA cup and although the Spaniard is well aware that this pre-season game does not mean a lot when the serious business of the Premier League begins, Arteta believes that the end of our wait for a win over a Jose Mourinho side could prove to be very significant.

Before the Europea League was rebranded it was known as UEFA Cup and although giants of european football never took this competition seriously it had some great games over the years.

Arsenal currently sit in fourth position, 13 points behind league leaders Chelsea, although we have played a game less due to Sothampton's involvement in the EFL cup final last weekend.

Prior to the League Cup game, Giroud had scored four times in four appearances, and hopefully he finds the net tonight as well, although Sanchez tends to be our main outlet when Giroud plays.

Players like Lucas, Suso (before injury), Borini and Coutinho could have helped share the minutes eaten up by Sterling and Gerrard, and although they might not be Rodgers's favourites, they remain viable options especially for League Cup games.

Although we beat Accrington in the Youth Alliance Cup this season, and in the Lancashire Youth Cup last season, we have to go back to it is back in 2014 when we last won a league game against them.

The added pressure of a cup final will add a huge extra dimension to the fixture, although going into it with two league wins over Hull should give the Gunners some confidence before the showpiece game.

Since the start of the year, with four months now drifted by, Portsmouth have won just two league games, although they've pulled off some stunning results in the cup in between.

Blackburn have entered another rut having recently lost back - to - back games in the Premier League, although it's three in all competitions if you include their 3 - 1 defeat away to Aston Villa in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup.

Under 18's got beat 4 — 1 by our neighbors in the Cup semi final, and the under 23's lost a top of the table clash at Leicester 3 — 1, although that result is tempered by the fact that our best players from that team were absent due to their anticipated appearance in the Europa league game on Thursday night.

Although he had to focus on the next game and the next trophy that the Blues could win and added,» We can only look forward and start fighting for the fourth spot in the Champions League and try to win the FA Cup.»

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City have been an unpredictable sort on the road so far, winning just one of their opening three away fixtures in the league: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up tilleague: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up tilLeague Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up tilleague up till now.