Sentences with phrase «successive fa»

Chelsea's are bidding to win a fifth successive FA Youth Cup, but despite this their talented kids have struggled to make the first team.

One of the only things keeping me, and I suspect many others fans, going during this slightly turbulent time for Arsenal was the prospect of challenging for a third successive FA Cup.

The German boss will certainly be hoping for promotion back to the Premier League, but for now he will continue to lead the team's quest towards a second successive FA CUP triumph.

In a game that needed a special performance from a special individual, it was Alexis Sanchez who pulled out all the stops to send Arsenal into their second successive FA Cup final.

The prospect of a second successive FA Cup final beckons this weekend for Chelsea, who are appearing in a 12th FA Cup semi-final of the past 23 seasons.

Arsene Wenger's side march on in three competitions, a third successive FA Cup still a possibility, but even during this victory against Burnley, their confidence was lacking.

The Doc steered his «diamonds» to three successive FA Cup semi-finals in the mid-Sixties, culminating in a famous win against Leeds in 1967 and the club's first appearance in the final of the competition since 1915.

Just days after lifting a second successive FA Cup with Arsenal, playmaker Mesut Ozil has further reason to celebrate after being named as the winner of the 2015 German Football Ambassador Public Award.

After two successive FA cup wins, it is a chance for Wenger to build on that success.

I can see where the Arsenal centre back Per Mertesacker is coming from and of course we are all happy, relieved and proud to see the Gunners make it to Wembley for a second successive FA cup final.

«If the Gunners win tonight's fifth - round replay at Hull, they will be just three wins away from lifting a third successive FA Cup.

We have a bunch of good players who can now tell their kids how they won two successive FA cups.

We put some big money players on the squad, who brought immediate effect and two successive FA cups on the table.

You would also think that a strong finish in the Premier League would be the perfect preparation for a second successive FA cup final.

With the long wait for a trophy at the club well and truly over following a second successive FA cup final win under the belt, the next step is obviously to be the best over a whole season and Cech believes we can do it.

We are on course to finish as runners up in the EPL and take away a second successive FA cup title.

Not exact matches

Well he has won the Spanish Cup and La Liga with Barcelona, and an FA Cup with Arsenal, and perhaps he his highly aware that he is now the Chile captain, with whom he has beaten Messi's Argentina team in two successive Copa America Finals, which giveshim a nice edge.

After a long trophy drought, Arsenal have now won two FA Cups in successive seasons, and have avoided the Champions League Qualifying round for next year, but when Rosicky was asked what he thought about the season just past instead of saying how well the club did he turned the conversation back to his «frustration».

Arsenal, who are aiming to win the FA Cup for a third successive year, have not failed to go beyond round four since 2010 when Stoke City — quite literally — threw them out of the competition.

Then add the Capital One Cup to it and retain the FA Cup for a record 3 successive seasons.

With the Blues still facing the prospect of a trip to the Emirates Stadium, Ozil could yet help inspire an unlikely Premier League and FA Cup double, with their next fixture against Reading set to determine whether they'll be involved in a second successive Wembley final.

The only club in top 5 leagues in europe not to sign a single outfield player when it was clear that there were deficiencies in KEY areas.We are going to exit the champions league for a sixth successive year only at round 16 stage.The frenchman was waiting for the FA to be a scapegoat for was had already been a dump season.i can sense and feel that the REIGNS OF WENGER ARE COMING TO A CLOSURE and we will finally be free from the shackles of dictatorship!!!

With Arsenal now sitting in second place in the Premier League table and heading for a second successive Wembley FA cup final and on an amazing run of form, with 21 wins and one draw from our last 25 games, the calls from some Arsenal fans and members of the football media have pretty much gone away.

But Leeds failed to live up to that early season form and McAllister paid the price for a run a of five successive defeats - including a 1 - 0 FA Cup second round reverse at non-league Histon - when he parted company with the club in December.

After losing two successive League Cup finals in 1967 - 68 and 1968 - 69, George helped the Gunners win the 1969 - 70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 1970 - 71 League and FA Cup double; he was a regular in the Double - winning team that season, setting up a number of goals for his team - mates, which included teeing up Ray Kennedy's winning header against Tottenham Hotspur, in the match that won Arsenal the League title.

Ozil, 26, helped Arsenal win the FA Cup for the second successive season, donating his prize money to

In the mid 1960's West Ham had featured in two successive cup finals by winning the FA European Cup Winners Cups.

Stoke City's recent successive is 2010 - 11 FA Cups runners - up and 2007 - 08 Football league championship runners - up.

To the best of my knowledge West Ham meeting the same opponents in successive cup and league fixtures has occurred 5 times previously this century: January 2002 v Chelsea (Lost, Draw); April 2006 v Middlesbro (Lost, Won in FA Cup semi-final); December 2007 v Everton (Lost, Lost); January 2008 v Manchester City (Lost, Draw) and March 2011 v Stoke City (Won, Lost).

They were also knocked out of the Champions League at the last - 16 stage for a sixth successive year while they saw their hopes of winning a third FA Cup in a row ended by Watford at the quarter - final stage.

Manchester United are our opponents for the FA Cup semi-final at the national stadium, our second successive appearance in the last four and the 21st in our history.

And with Arsenal next up in the Emirates FA Cup fourth round, Højbjerg is hoping to use that as a catalyst as they search for fourth successive victory.

Gary O'Neill also joined on loan in January after featuring in West Ham's 3 - 2 triumph over Nott'm Forest in the FA Cup at the weekend, could start his second successive game for the Hammers.

Granted they welcomed the Reds to Bloomfield Road on the back of successive defeats, as well as exiting the FA Cup, however previously they went five games without losing, four of those away from home.

-- Arsenal will host the final top flight fixture of the weekend on the back of successive league defeats, losing away at Fulham (2 - 1) and Swansea (3 - 2) either side of a nervy 1 - 0 win over Championship side Leeds in the FA Cup.