While Mourinho would clearly prefer to win the Premier League or Champions League, he wouldn't be averse to picking
up the League Cup again (after winning it with Chelsea in the 2004 - 05 and 2006 - 07 seasons).
Not exact matches
Let's just hope that the injury problems ease
up and the Gunners do not get knocked out of the FA
cup and Champions
League at the next stage.
Coz I see AKBs defend Wenger coz we won FA
cups, we are trophyless in the UCL and 14 years trophyless in the
league, wake
up.
Pochettino said it would be «fantastic» to win the FA
Cup, but that only Premier
League or Champions
League success would be regarded as taking a step
up.
Of course we might not be exactly buzzing with self - belief ourselves but at least we are coming
up against a team that is also yet to win this season, with a draw against Southampton and a loss to Chelsea before this
league cup exit.
That would seem to indicate that he is not intending to take the Europa
League too seriously, and judging by the amount of changes to the starting line -
up he intends to make tonight it will look like one of his
League Cup sides, but Wenger is still pretending that he wants to win it but admits his disappointment at not being in the major event.
Form guide: United have built
up some momentum in the last two games, beating Shrewsbury Town in the Emirates FA
Cup before reaching the Europa
League last 16 by defeating Midtjylland in resounding fashion on Thursday.
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
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.
Paul Scholes summed it
up when he said that he didn't want UTD to be like Arsenal, superb elaborating the odd
cup and 4th place in the
league.
Admin DO NO ALLOW BOB OR SOME OTHER FOOL TO WRITE AN ARTICLE MAKING EXCUSES This is what we deserve No signings mean no progress, we've been in the CL 18 years and we / he has learnt nothing 61 % possession but we do not have a plan, it's like keep ball without a purpose I said it before and I will again, his time is
up, and you can thumb me down as much as you want, if we end
up in the shitty Europa
cup it will affect our
league position, AKB stop thinking we are quality, and who's laughing at CIty and UTD now
just buy benzema, reus and lars bender and that will make us a major force i say with those 3 additions we will win the prem
league and have a great chance in champions
league and
cups and it will shut maureen
up once and for all!!
Higuain is a big NO, he's a bottler of note on the biggest stages, there's a reason Real Madrid got rid of him and he only wound
up at Napoli instead of other big champions
league clubs, he doesn't have the winning mentality needed to take us forward he missed the best chance in the world
cup final then does the same in the copa america final
one thing is for sure, Chelsea will not win
league or icl, and I wish they get City in the 4th round of FA and loose too, and in another
cup I wan na crystal palace beating them, and Dean to be fined for today's calls, and costa getting red next game, missing 5 games, getting red again, released, picked
up by Bastia and retired on Corsica
FA
Cup last year, maybe this year, possibly runners
up in the
league.
The current Juventus manager has won the Italian
league / cup double in the last two years and came runner - up in the 2014 - 15 Champions L
league /
cup double in the last two years and came runner -
up in the 2014 - 15 Champions
LeagueLeague.
I think Wenger thought it would be an easy match and was using it to get these guys back
up to speed, but a
league cup qualifier is more the time to do that, not a CL match.
We can only hope the styles of football Leicester and Spuds play catches
up with them physically, and that Man City don't go on a run off winning the
league cup.
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?!
A star in her own right but now well on our radar having hooked
up with the Premier
League star, she'll hope her other half secures a spot at the World
Cup this summer and we may well see her cheering her man on from the stands in Russia.
As we enter the crucial run in to the end of the season, which is the time that we traditionally
up our game to reach the Champions
League positions, we also have another big advantage in that all of the five teams above us are still in the Champions
League and Man United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still in the FA
Cup, and are set to face some very tough games in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do well.
Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four days after being embarrassed in the
League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves
up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one
League game all season.
Use Nketiah and Nelson more ie as back
up and
League cup, FA
cup matches
The Gunners lost to Nottingham Forest at the weekend to give
up their chance to win a fourth FA
Cup in only five seasons, losing 4 - 2 to the lower
league side.
I think arsenal should take Cech
up on his offer, let him respect the Europa
league by being our Europa
league, fa
cup and EFL keeper, whilst Pickford or if we can't get him szczesney plays as our epl keeper.
Did he honestly think that line
up was going to win on Sunday???? He'll have to go for the
league cup now as he has nothing else to go for (maybe Europa???) What an idiot.....
Those turning their nose
up at the
League Cup, it is just wrong.
Did we not win fa
cups what do you mean by not a winning side would of won epl to if other big teams would of showed
up against Leicester we were the only ones to beat them twice and
up until last year qualified for champions
league how is that not winning?
I always say i dnt kno why arsenal fans forget easily... just becoz we won the fa
cup everyone forgot how shit we were some hv guts to call sanchez an average player but wait till the
league begins coz if u say anythin negative about arsenal now Justarsenal fans will eat u
up
The only real negativity to Ozil's return has been his failure to stand
up in the big games against Manchester United in the FA
Cup and AS Monaco in the first leg of the UEFA Champions
League at the Emirates.
Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build
up wins we need to win
cups then
league than we go and win the champion
league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on
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.
He played his
League Cup team against Zagreb two weeks ago, and is likely to do the same tomorrow with the crucial Man United game coming
up next.
The German tactician will be hoping for a strong
cup run to coincide with Liverpool's bid to win the Premier
League title this season, and although he has freshened things
up after a busy festive schedule, he'll be confident in those starting to get the job done.
The teams go into Monday's game in third and fourth in the Premier
League, separated by just one point; as
cup match -
ups go, it literally couldn't be closer, Clive.
We are just 7 days away from the
League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which could make or break our chances of catching our neighbours
up in the title race, but conversely this FA
Cup game against Southampton could also be just as important.
If you believe that as manager Arsene Wenger is not responsible for Arsenal being 33 points behind city with eight games to go and is not responsible for Arsenal not turning
up at the
league cup final and is not responsible for Arsenal being humiliated by Forest in the 3rd round of the FA
cup then there is something seriously wrong there.
However, his exclusion from the match day squad entirely this weekend was a surprise, although as noted by freelance injury analyst Ben Dinnery in the tweet below, Pochettino has now revealed that the Tottenham midfielder picked
up an ankle problem in midweek in the
League Cup win over Barnsley.
The former Manchester United striker celebrated his side's Premier
League, Champions
League and FA
Cup treble with a rap song, which summed
up the achievements of Sir Alex Ferguson's men.
The fans in general seemed pretty pleased with the starting line -
up, if not a little surprised to see such a strong team for a
League Cup game.
Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone finally lived
up to the potential that he had always had at Arsenal in the last twelve months, the Italian emerging as one of the key reasons for Sunderland's impressive run to the
League Cup final and dramatic escape from relegation.
Team should never give
up on competition whether it's a Champions
League US
cup or MLS C
cup or MLS
CupCup.
That is in large part down to the stellar job he has done at White Hart Lane thus far, and he continues to guide the club forward with the Premier
League title and FA
Cup still
up for grabs.
Premier
League teams on the other hand have won three Champions
League trophies, but had five runner
ups, and one UEFA
Cup trophy with two runner
ups.
Chelsea had just ended the 2014 - 15 season as double winners, having beaten London rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the Capital One
Cup final before cruising to the Premier
League title, eight points clear of runners -
up Manchester City.
After the 0 - 0 draw at home against Manchester United in the FA
Cup, Cambridge United bagged themselves a replay, which will earn the club in excess of # 1.5 m — and the
League Two outfit start will start by sprucing
up by their toilets, reports the BBC.
Mauricio Pochettino has seen rumours and speculation ramp
up since his side missed out on the Premier
League title and fell at the semi-finals stage of the FA
Cup.
A 2 - 0 win in FA
Cup third round at the Emirates last season, quickly followed
up two months later by a 1 - 0 away win at White Hart Lane in the
league.
Injury troubles have been a major issue this season as they've limited Zlatan Ibrahimovic to just seven appearances, and that followed on from 28 goals in 46 appearances last year as he picked
up the Europa
League,
League Cup and Community Shield in his first campaign in England.
Just in the last decade La Liga teams have lifted four Champions
League trophies with one runner -
up team and five UEFA
Cup trophies with two runner
ups.