FA Cup 2014-15

but change in any trend is inevitable in this nature

A lot of smack talk from United fans, given they barely scraped past Preston and whose all time top scorer had to rely on a dive and penalty to get on the score sheet in 2015

HEIL MEIN REDS wrote:but change in any trend is inevitable in this nature

I quite like the optimism from Utd fans actually. I frankly have zero hopes of making it past them at OT. We can't even show some balls against Myeseh's United ffs. And no matter how well we play, we are going to lose somehow anyway - the game at Emirates earlier this season being a case in point.

You play like you did at the emptihad and you should be able to scrape a draw

RED wrote:You play like you did at the emptihad and you should be able to scrape a draw

Nah, we'd still lose to some really shitty goal. Like a DDG spot kick getting carried by a rogue gust of wind into the opposing net after DDG slips when taking the kick, or something even more ridiculous than that.

RED wrote:

El Cujo wrote:lol this United though.

You're bricking it.

I don't think I've been this excited to get a chance to embarrass United like...ever. I really hope we get to play you lot in the FA Cup final (sorry Arsenal fans).

Na i was expecting 6 last season at OT, Stevie missed a penalty to save their blushes dammit.

actuallz LVG does improve team tactically wherever he goes but I cant believe that he is still completely clueless about it.

HEIL MEIN REDS wrote:actuallz LVG does improve team tactically wherever he goes but I cant believe that he is still completely clueless about it.

He hasn't though.

They're still tactically a mess.

But they're getting back their groove of winning ugly games just like how they did it under fergielicious. :S

I dont think United players themselves care about how they are winning the games. And I think that is exactly is the strength of this team. They are just so desperate to put the ball into the net and they somehow manage it and it seems like LVG has instilled this mentality into them. So in the end it wont even matter probably and they will most likely finish in top 4

So Bradford and Reading played out a boring draw. Replay will be on Monday 16 March.

Aston Villa - WBA had no shortage of fun and craziness y'day.
Like they did in mid-week, Villa got the win against their local rivals. The match was capped off though by some crazy scenes.

NSFW:

Liverpool vs Blackburn today.
Blackburn's road to the quarters has consisted of a few slaying of PL opposition. Will Liverpool be served up next?

Man Utd vs Arsenal tomorrow.
The defending champions face their toughest test thus far in their run to retain the title. It is definitely the toughest fixture that Arsenal could have gotten considering their mental struggles and poor record against Man Utd, and the got it. Those who say Arsenal have been quite lucky in the draw in the last 2 years of the FA Cup will finally get what they wanted for Arsenal.
Let's see how this latest edition in this classic rivalry turns out.

Boring that they put ManU v Arsenal on Monday night and only one game on today.

Anyway, we have played two games a week for a couple of months now, but that run ends now (since we lost to Besiktas ) and I expect us to field our strongest team and therefore beat Blackburn without too many problems.

Hopefully there'll be a draw tomorrow, so Arsenal and Manu have one more game to handle.

Fixture congestion isn't a problem for us. Probably is for United though.

Would love a draw and replay being held at the Emirates. Higher chance of beating them there.

Comfortable victory for Liverpool today.

All about tomorrow's game though. Shame I'm going to miss the first half though, damn you BBC for putting this on a Monday night

Also Villa fans reacting like that, didn't realise they won the FA cup yesterday.

If I was Wenger, I would defend in my own half and try to get a smas and grab victory. ManUtd for their life wont be able to score against Arsenal if Wenger gets it right. The maximum loss which may happen will be, a draw. I think Arsenal on counter attack can be dangerous with the likes of Sanchez, Özil, Cazorla, Welbeck

HEIL MEIN REDS wrote:If I was Wenger, I would defend in my own half and try to get a smas and grab victory. ManUtd for their life wont be able to score against Arsenal if Wenger gets it right. The maximum loss which may happen will be, a draw. I think Arsenal on counter attack can be dangerous with the likes of Sanchez, Özil, Cazorla, Welbeck

I as well think we should adopt that approach for tomorrow, a la the "City approach", which even though I still think was very much overhyped by the media and fans, I still think it will be enough to do the trick tomorrow against Yanited.

Liverpool 0-0 Blackburn FT

Didn't see it till it was 85th min but heard it was a poor match

Shit match.

Blackburn Well organised and sturdy. An effective ploy to counter this free flowing pool side. Hopefully the PL teams will pick a thing or two from this tactic they used. Henley and Bapiste were good.

You couldn't have blamed Mignolet had he fallen asleep in the 2nd half. We had all the possession but were lazy in attack. No one making runs and everyone looked like they were just waiting for someone else to do something decisive. Blackburn deserved the draw.

Liverpool were a little bit complacent in my opinion.

Eh? I saw the 2nd half and I don't think that the game was shit and neither that Liverpool were complacent.
Blackburn managed to hang on, is all, with 10% possession.

Should have been a penalty for shirt pulling on Balotelli as well.

They didn't really step it up a few more gears. It's like they were waiting for someone to step up and do a mad ting

this has been our style this season nothing to analyse imo !

Always a good strategy to get the bad performances (DRAWS) out of the system at FA Cup, because you always get a replay anyways.

Replay will be on April 8th now ....1 month from today

all FA Cup wins have been away this season, so the trend goes.

Would love to play Tim Sherwood at Wembley if we get there....He'll be hilarious

Is the draw before or after the match today?