Sentences with phrase «start of our cup final»

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Southampton — TBA — LOSE They're starting to show some good form of late, and were brilliant in defeat against Man Utd in the League Cup final.

Arsene Wenger has responded to the brilliant performance and hat - trick of the Arsenal and England international speedster Theo Walcott against West Brom last week by giving him a place in the starting line up as the Gunners prepae for a second FA cup final at Wembley in the space of a year.

He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis against Real, & the recent Italian Cup final this season with his first touch.

Morata is starting for a top International team already & has memorable Champions League final & Italian Cup final goals, memorable Champions League goals against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Dortmund & Man City, equalled the Juventus record for consecutive Champions League goals, won 3 league titles across 2 top leagues & won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, & won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tournaments.

I would have started Gabriel but because its cup final I will start Mertesaker because of his experience.

we need to have a strong start & start with a very strong squad from the beginning isntead of the regular rubbish we are used to, signing players late, kolasinac, Mahrez,, a quality CB (tho per surprised me in the FA Cup final), a world class CM if Santi carzola & wilshere fail to stay fit and one CF to replace dead wood like sanogo & akpom....

This is what will happen until the end of the season.We will start on a good run in the premiership and finish top 4 and probably loose in the FA cup final to Chelsea.This will of course be good enough for Wenger to sign a 2 year contract extension.NOooooooooooo

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.

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.

Solid league form and a first ever FA Cup final for the club last term suggested Bruce was starting something very exciting at the KC Stadium and this was followed with a summer of interesting signings.

Shaking off the aftershock of four straight losses to the Oilers in the Cup finals, the Flyers started this season 12 - 2.

Courtois is currently on loan at Atletico Madrid and has put in an number of impressive performances for the La Liga side but Mignolet is keen to regain his place in the starting eleven before next summer's World Cup finals tournament in Brazil.

We also have the prestige of a place in the starting line up for the FA cup final at Wembley, so nobody will want to lose form now and those two incentives could be just what the Gunners need to finish this season with a bang, starting with the visit to Hull on Monday.

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.

Despite his thoroughly disappointing campaign, he isn't afraid to call the shots on Antonio Conte, possibly starting the mind - games early ahead of the FA Cup final.

Arsenal are three points behind log leaders in EPL, in the quarter final of the Capital One Cup, Joint top in champions league though second on away goals» rule, never lost a game since the start of the season.

Since the statistic of shots on goal started being recorded in 1960, no team has ever won a Stanley Cup Final game with less shots than Pittsburgh's 12 in Game 1.

If Arsene Wenger had not given the 23 - year old that rare start in the last Premier League game of the season, not only would Arsenal fans have missed out on the goal of the season against West Brom, Wilshere may have missed out on the FA cup final and the media would surely have got on his back again for being injury prone and for not realising his potential.

The Frenchman declared that the injury problems and the extra fitness issues resulting from the World Cup finals in Brazil last summer had a very negative effect on the start of the season for Arsenal.

If Sczeszny is our second choice keeper come the tail end of season and he's performed up to standard in the cup games then he absolutely should start for the hypothetical final.

Remember he already started reminding people of the invincible season, the seventh FA cup, but forgot to remind people of 20 years in champions league with just one final, 13 years without a league trophy, etc

Mourinho put his faith in Cech by selecting him to start ahead of Thibaut Courtois in Sunday's Capital One Cup Final against Friedel's current club Tottenham, though the Czech international has largely been considered an understudy for the Belgian for most of the season.

The semis will be run on a best - of - seven basis, with the leader on points facing the No. 4 boat and No. 2 against No. 3; the best - of - seven final to produce the challenger is scheduled to begin Jan. 14, and the Cup defense itself will start Jan. 31.

With the much - awaited FA Cup final less than a week away, there has been a lot of debate amongst the Arsenal fans as to who should start for the Gunners when they take to the field at Wembley.

Cillessen was van Gaal's starting keeper when he was in charge of the Dutch national team at the 2014 World Cup finals and clearly rates the 26 year old highly.

I think our happiness of Arsenal making it to Cup final is driving us to become overcealose to start making the Gunners starters for the Cup final.

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

When the prisoners in Dartmoor, a maximum - security prison, were informed that they would not be permitted to watch the second half of a Cup Final on television, they started a fire that caused $ 100,000 worth of damage.

Even with the Capital One Cup final to come on Sunday afternoon, there will be plenty of Spurs fans saying Harry Kane should have started.

Paolo Rossi exults while still on the ground as his header starts off Italy's 3 - 1 rout of West Germany in the final of the World Cup

Besides, the East winner has to start at 8 Eastern in the Stanley Cup Final, anyway, so it's not too out of the ordinary for them.

Kramer is a regular for the German national side, appearing for Joachim Low's men in this summer's World Cup final, and there's no doubt he could do a job for any top side at his best, with Liverpool and Arsenal certainly both in need of strengthening after disappointing performances at the start of this season.

The change paid off against Man United as Walcott has claimed that he scored the winner, even if it was really a deflection, and is hoping that Wenger will now consider starting him in the FA Cup Final at the end of the month.

John Terry has started a war of words ahead of Sunday's Capital One Cup final, mocking Spurs striker Harry Kane...

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...

Surely if Wenger was happy to risk a good chance of making a Wembley final and winning the EFL cup which is a trophy that he has never lifted, then it is even easier to forego the minimal chance of PSG messing up in order to rest key players with an eye on the two Premier League games in the space of three days that we face starting this weekend.

time the eff out, the germans play their first match since the world cup final on the road at pissed off everton, pissed we finished 4th above them, we go down by 2, one offsides, and have the grit to score two in the final 10 ″, we took a point at goodison when we did not play well, to me, thats the sign of a winner, when you get outplayed and still find a way to take a point... giroud always plays better when he is punished not starting, he ai nt no messi, but he ai nt no bentner either...

OG wont do well in the FA cup final if he starts, Villa will hold a high line against Arsenal they cant park the bus there defence is crap, for OG its simple he hasn't got the pace or strength, you need a man who can run at the defender not hold the ball up, because of Okore Giroud will have an awful time he faster and stronger i think if Giroud is on he will be man marked (Okore's bitch all game) if you don't believe me watch the training footage of him manhandling Benteke...... Not an easy task.

His performance in last season's FA Cup final will be fresh in our minds, as he made his one and only start of the entire campaign thanks to a long - term injury, and returned to make Chelsea look silly.

Although some Arsenal fans are still not convinced by our France international centre forward Olivier Giroud, and may have been hoping that the manager's decision to start Theo Walcott ahead of him in the FA cup final was a sign that he would be replaced this summer, I still think that Arsene Wenger has a lot of respect for and belief in his fellow countryman.

We can win EPL only if we win all our games, which is close to impossible, chelsea will have very rough end of season, plus add champion league and cup final they will be very tired, who knows i remember 2 seasons ago, we needed 30 points we end with 27, with arsenal you never know, lets start with beating spuds next week!!!

Look, as the Arsenal manager is so fond of saying, if it meant playing a significantly weakened side in a Wembley final that could see Arsenal and Arsene Wenger make FA cup history, then there is no way that Theo Walcott would be in the starting XI to run out onto the hallowed turf on Saturday evening.

«The final of the World Cup was on July 13; the start of the Premier League season is August 16.

Arsenal fans may sometimes be a bit down on the France international striker, but Olivier Giroud will be the toast of his nation this week after scoring the second goal, and what turned out to be the winner, in their final World Cup qualifying match, but will it be enough to convince Arsene Wenger to give the big centre forward a rare Premier League start when Arsenal travel to Watford on Saturday?

It was much kinder to him last season though, and the Frenchman must be very glad that he was recalled from the loan spell at Charlton before they could use him in the competition, because he went on to play in all five of Arsenal's cup games including a brilliant performance from the start in the final against Aston Villa.

Per Mertesacker did not start a game for Arsenal right until the end of the last campaign but due to injuries and suspensions Wenger was forced to play him in the FA Cup Final against Chelsea and he ended up as our hero!

With the FA Cup final on May 30 - which could feature Arsenal again should they get past Reading next weekend - swiftly followed by another round of internationals, the actual down time for most players this summer will be minimal before they are called back to their club for the start of pre-season training.

City saw off their Champions League away tie against Basel with rather ease and they are well clear at the top of the table in premier league so we expect Guardiola to start with a full strength side in the league cup final.

One of the six members of the starting XI from the final versus England that have since gone on to win a World Cup winners» medal, Boateng has developed into one of the calmest defenders around.

The 25 - year - old, who started Serbia's final group game against Georgia, to a 1 - 0 win which saw them hold off Republic of Ireland and Wales to claim to qualify a place for the FIFA World Cup 2018.