Sentences with phrase «more of a cup final»

This is more of a cup final than an end - of - season top - four play - off.

Not exact matches

More than 3 billion people watched Germany beat Argentina in the final of the 2014 World Cup, run by FIFA, the international football body.

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I added an extra 1/4 cup of milk, and would have added more, except the recipe clearly stated to not let it get sticky... the final result was scones that were tasty, but so so dry, and they completely crumbled apart when I cut them open to put jam and butter on.

I ended up being disappointed with the final product (but perhaps that's because it wasn't chocolate: — RRB - The cake was a tiny bit dry and I wish I had used much more of the jam and lemon creme in between layers... 1/3 cup of each did not go very far and there was an awful lot of lemon creme left over that went to waste.

Given the rivalry between these two clubs, it's surprising this didn't happen more, but things definitely got a little out of hand in the Arsenal vs Chelsea Carling Cup final of 2007.

Jacob Waddell, the man who threw the catfish during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, likely is getting more than he bargained for.

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Stellar triumphs away to Manchester City and at home to Liverpool, either side of the FA Cup quarter - final win at Manchester United, point to a new - found resilience in the big matches, in stark contrast to the infamous 6 - 0 loss at Chelsea, 6 - 3 at City and, going back a few more years, the 8 - 2 Old Trafford mauling.

MARK MARTIN, 6 AAAFord, Roush Racing In his final Cup season the 47 - year - old has beenimpressively consistent; more of the same could bring the four - time pointsrunner - up his first Cup championship.

The Carling Cup final is a case in point, Chelsea use their «first team» players for virtually every match and it paid off with a trophy while all Wenger walked away with was a more mature batch of reserves.

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It was not that Theo or Giroud should be defended for any weak campaign, more that if they had had a hypothetically strong campaign in a competition a lot of fans deem second tier, (Carling Cup, Europa League, even F.A. Cup to some fans, I'm guessing including yourself as you seem happy to disregard the opening goal of the FINAL for some strange reason.......)

Following his deflected goal that gave Arsenal the equaliser against Manchester United, Theo Walcott has claimed that he is now fit enough to start more games for the Gunners and has admitted his desire to start the FA Cup final against Aston Villa at the end of the month.

Over the final 18 holes, the ball rarely went wild off the fairway and it never left the pin, as Dufner backed up that Friday majors scoring record round of 63 with two more dialed - in approach shots to within a foot of the cup.

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Another question is Ramsay one of our important players, wellllll...... I guess so and that is it he has been great in a lot of FA cup finals and games, but in reality, he has had more bad games than good.

The game, which was a repeat of the 2012 World Cup final, was an entertaining spectacle and could have easily seen more goals.

The guy kept our season afloat for the first 4 months with his goals, scored the goal to secure UCL group stages, scored both semi-final goals to take us to FA cup final, is the club's top scorer, has been involved in more goals + assists than anyone in the PL, scored more goals than the media's fave Costa from a deeper, wider position, plays every second of every game as if it was his last, is always smiling, helped instill a hungrier work ethic in the team — all in a first season.

More to them, even, than a team that has played bravely and well through a tragedy, proving in the first quarter of this season that last year's trip to the Stanley Cup finals was not just a whale of a fluke.

We'll learn more about him if he plays against Chile tomorrow in the final match of the Confederations Cup in Russia..

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Anyways, we are in 5th spot and it's more than likely that things will probably get worse before we see the usual late Winning run that will see us snatch 4th on the final day of the season and watch our players celebrating it as if they just won the World Cup.??

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And on the 1st tee of her singles match in Sunday's climactic final round of the Solheim Cup at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Mochrie wore a visage even more intense than the one she habitually clamps into place at major championships and in sudden - death playoffs.

If they stay in Europe and the FA cup United could have 25 more games before the end of the season, at an average of one every four days starting with the second leg of their Europa League tie tomorrow and then the EFL cup final this weekend.

With the a draining Europa League campaign coming up for the Gunners next season they are going to need more depth to their squad as when you consider there are 38 league games, up to 15 games in the Europa League (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the season.

Arsenal play their final game of the Premier League season against West Bromwich Albion this Sunday with third place more or less wrapped up, so Arsene Wenger seems likely to shuffle his pack ahead of the far more important FA Cup final clash against Aston Villa the following week...

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Final Thought Wenger would be hoping that in addition to the aforementioned trio of Giroud, Ozil and Coquelin, more players step up to the plate during the rest of this month and until the end of this campaign, as Arsenal look to cement their place in the top 4 of the Premiership table and retain the FA Cup that they won last year.

This isn't the first time that Kutcher has been seen in one of South America's most famous football stadiums, and he was one of the more high - profile guests for the 2014 World Cup final — where Germany beat Argentina — in Brazil.

Arsene Wenger has already let the Arsenal fans know that he is not making this quarter - final Carabao Cup clash against West Ham any more of a priority than he normally does, and is planning to play a mixture of youth and fringe players even though this competition is probably our best chance of a trophy this season.

He has led arsenal to half of those cups and when you consider the fact he's only lost 1 of 7 finals, even though we dominated that game too, it's even more impressive.

This may be the biggest garbage article put on here sorry for the offense i like the site but this shows the lack of heart and appreciation and sadness of arsenal fans no love we've been spoiled for so long we cant lose with honor anymore we made it to a cup final a long way to go for any group i did nt see mu there or liverpool or tottenham and we beat a tough chelsea side in semi final to make there and lost a tough match to the best epl team by far this season and our fans are such poor losers we couldnt even stay to congratulate the team for making it that far and giving us the opportunity to go how embarrassing and sad and then try to say no desire i mean lets realistically analysethe game and not listen to so called manchester united scoundrs like Neville who never once cared more about arsenal than a piece of mud and then try to disassemble the team after a tough lost what kind fans are we.

Walking out on a cup final early is poor saying the things after is poor we have had the most consistancy of any pl club for 20 years it goes bad we lose and we show no honor in defeat i never mentioned wenger i mentioned the lack of support in a cup final was sad and by walking out it showed we've been spoiled city did nt leave the semi early last year when we beat em they did nt leave early wehen they lost in league one and i cant stand city im arsenal through and through we won a cup last year and the year before were in another cup final and tempemental fans leave early even though it takes alot to get to a cup final maybe you need to lose more to lose respectable its hard it sucks but its a cup final bigger than the management our opinions for a day its about how you show you solidarity as a club win or lose every other club in england would of taken our spot in a heartbeat if they could of and we lea e early that shows spoilage and it was embarrassing to see we need to be stronger as supporters newcastle does nt like ashley yet they still show up and when was the last time they won a cup?

The cup final will show us more of this partnership of Xhaka and Ramsey, and they must continue to develop this burgeoning understanding.

Actually winning cups getting to those finals by beating the best teams in the leagues even though we lost one to the best team in the league this year is more than one fact and what the guy stated in the article is a host of statistical facts and we sniffed the league in 2016 every one but us failed to beat the champions that year twice there is a host of facts that hold up success here an mostly ranting opinions saying yea we won cups and made it to finals so what, we did nt win ecl or epl only 1 team does that and other than Leicester which we were 2nd only city, mu and chelsea have won since we last won so not many clubs do that and totten ham hasnt won a cup since 2008 we have won 5 in 8 seasons and been to 3 other finals

Considering how Arsenal played in the first two months of this season, it seems like a dream to see us going ten games unbeaten at this moment, and only needing five more wins to secure second place in the Premier League and a repeat success in the FA Cup Final.

And if they're going to reach the final of the World Cup again, they need to make good use of some of the young talents who helped lead them to Confederations Cup glory last summer, because their aging core can't do all the heavy lifting on their own any more.

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I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

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Although second place and an appearance in the FA Cup final is more than many clubs can dream of, City simply had to do better with this star - studded team.

Ceni has 16 national team caps to his name, the last of which coming back in 2006 and has scored more goals than any other keeper in the history of the game and represented Brazil at both the 2002 and 2006 World Cup finals.

We should have entered a team in the EFL TROPHY as well as the cup, then more of these youngsters would have had even more focus and opportunity of reaching a Wembley final.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

To be fair we do get a lot of decisions against us that are wrong than we do get that are good Diabys sending off in the 4 - 4 with newcastle while barton kicked everyone and stayed on Van Persie sending off at Barca then after that so many times the tv showed others doing the same with no card for it and so many more i could be here all night oh one more the L - Pool fa cup final shouldve had least 1 peno but no