Forced to play a relatively weakened side, Arsene Wenger watched as his team was eliminated from a cup competition in a four goal loss to a hated rival for the second time this season. Today’s loss was perpetrated by a rampant Manchester United, who took advantage of a seemingly dis-interested Arsenal to cruise to a 4-0 5th Round FA Cup victory at Old Trafford earlier this afternoon. With the Champions League match against AC Milan taking place this Wednesday, Wenger decided to rest the human goal machine Emmanuel Adebayor as well as Mathieu Flamini. Returning to the side were Kolo...
Saturday’s 5th round F.A Cup tie at Old Trafford brings together not only the current league’s #1 and #2 teams but also the two best teams in the history of the F.A Cup.
The two titans:
Man Utd have the most F.A Cup wins with 11, followed closely by Arsenal’s 10 victories. Both have also have finished runner’s up on 7 occasions each, with Man Utd finishing second best to Chelsea in last year’s final.
Ever since Arsene Wenger took over Arsenal, they have been THE dominant team in the F.A Cup. In the 11+ years under Wenger, Arsenal...
Listened to this one while driving from NY to DC this afternoon. Philip Senderos and Mathieu Flamini both shook off knocks to start while Gilberto started in center midfield and Cesc moved out wide.
Just minutes after kickoff, Arsenal were ahead thanks to a Senderos headed goal. The big Swiss defender was all alone at the far post during a corner and smashed the ball in from just a few yards out.
It would be another 85 minutes until the match was truly won, when Adebayor scored his twelfth goal in nine games, and that was that. Everything in the middle was a bit frustrating...
Here are this weeks previews brought to us by Sachin and LDE. First up is Sachin’s…
This weekend’s English Premier League games are the return legs from the Round 3 fixtures.
Recap of Round 3:
None of the big four of Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea or Liverpool picked up a win in Round 3. But Arsenal, Liverpool and Blackburn had only played one game heading into the weekend of August 19 because of European ties.
Arsenal 1-1 Blackburn
No Arsenal fan needs reminding of this game. A mistake from Jens coupled with his opening...
UPDATE - 2/9/08 - 5 PM ET - Due to forecasts of absolute crap weather for tomorrow morning in NY, tomorrow’s match has been postponed, and will be rescheduled for some time in the spring.
However, the FA Cup photo session will still take place at approximately 1:30 PM ET tomorrow @ Nevada Smiths.
For the last few years, I have dreaded the international break for two reasons:
– the injuries Arsenal players picked up in these games
– the week long break in the league play, which used to halt any good momentum that Arsenal had in the league.
Well this time, the regular weekend games will continue as the friendlies are slotted on Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb 6) evenings. Hopefully all the Arsenal players can be free of injuries and come back fit.
The good thing is Arsenal will have an extra day’s rest as their game against Blackburn is on Monday,...
Two more goals from Emmanuel Adebayor, and an absolutely sick goal from Eduardo helped the Gunners earn a 3-1 victory over Manchester City earlier today.
Despite City’s impressive home form this season, it never seemed as though they’d threaten the Arsenal goal. In fact, their only sniff of goal came from a rare Gael Clichy mistake which lead to a Gelson Fernandes goal which cut the Gunners lead to 2-1 late in the first half.
History:
Arsenal’s record against Man City has been very impressive ever since City got promoted back to the Premier League in the 2000/01 season. The Gunners have won 11 of 13 league games since then (outscoring City 29-6), drawn one and lost one (last year’s away fixture 1-0). The 1-1 tie on Jan 4, 2005 crushed Arsenal’s title hopes leaving them 7 points back of Chelsea. In this period, Arsenal had their best two games against City in that 2000/01 season when they thrashed City 5-0 at...
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