FA Cup 17/18 Thread

by Fernando Mon 04 Dec 2017, 7:22 pm

Ipswich vs Sheff Utd
Watford vs Bristol City
Birmingham vs Burton
Liverpool vs Everton
Brighton vs Crystal Palace
Aston Villa vs Woking or Peterbrough
Ballmouth vs Afc Fylde or Wigan
Coventry vs Stoke
Newport vs Leeds
Bolton vs Huddersfield
Port Vale/Yeovil vs Bradford
Notts Forest vs Arsenal
Brentford vs Notts County
QPR vs MK Dons
Man Utd vs Derby
Forest Green/Exeter vs WBA
Doncaster vs Slough or Rochdale
Spurs vs AFC Wombledon
Middlesbrough vs Sunderland
Fleetwood or Hereford vs Leicester
Blackburn or Crewe vs Hull
Cardiff vs Mansfield
Man City vs Burnley
Shrewsbury vs West Ham
Wolves vs Swansea
Stevenage vs Reading
Newcastle vs Luton
Millwall vs Barnsley
Fulham vs Southampton
Wycombe vs Preston
Nodge vs Chelsea
Gillingham or Carlisle vs Sheff Wed

by **Crimey** Mon 04 Dec 2017, 8:03 pm

Merseyside derby!

by westisbest Mon 04 Dec 2017, 8:58 pm

Upsets

Bristol City at Watford
Coventry home to stoke
Shrewsbury home to West Ham

by No name Bertie Mon 04 Dec 2017, 9:24 pm

Bristol City have already beaten Watford at Watford in the second round of the EFL (Carabao) Cup back in August of this year. So we have an exact repeat of that fixture, but this time I think Marco Silva needs to show he is capable of mounting a cup run.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40932205

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 8:06 pm

Bolasie looks rusty but Robertson is petrified of being done for pace. Keep him going

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 8:33 pm

Fairly soft pen but Liverpool lead 1-0.

Not much doing here

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 8:44 pm

Ref all over the shop, soft pen, Holgate should be off, loads of rougher stuff than the pen let go

by westisbest Fri 05 Jan 2018, 8:45 pm

Never a pen for me.
Very soft

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:17 pm

Opening up, Van Dijk should score from a free header

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:20 pm

Young Everton side in danger of being washed out here. Someone needs to put their foot on the ball

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:21 pm

1-1 Sigurdsson, brilliant counter attack

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:29 pm

Madley aint gonna grade well for this game

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:40 pm

Pickford comes for a cross and doesn't get near, Van Dijk with an easy header

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 10:02 pm

Liverpool probably edged it but Everton can feel aggrieved.

I'd If I were Klopp I'd be asking Juve if they'd take Can early

by GSC Fri 05 Jan 2018, 10:36 pm

Meanwhile sounds like all the journos are running Mourinhos latest comments past the lawyers before printing so that's fun

by **Hero** Sat 06 Jan 2018, 11:43 am

It's an interesting one. Presume he can say it as firstly he himself doesn't refer to Conte, the interviewer raises his name and Mourinho makes out he wasn't aware of that (which of course he is), and secondly his comment is factually correct, Conte was suspended for match fixing, he later had that overturned and was acquitted but he was suspended.
I expect Conte is about to blow a fuse in his next interview though.

by GSC Sat 06 Jan 2018, 2:19 pm

It's all pretty playground for middle aged men paid millions.

by Guest Sat 06 Jan 2018, 2:38 pm

Looks like the Leicester team felt sorry for Vardy missing out through injury, so they've organised a replay for him

by westisbest Sat 06 Jan 2018, 5:42 pm

Oops. That’s us out the cup.
Disappointing, but really need to concentrate on fighting for promotion.

Bit worrying all the same with these so called good youngsters.
Well done to Peterborough.

by No name Bertie Sat 06 Jan 2018, 8:37 pm

No name Bertie wrote:Bristol City have already beaten Watford at Watford in the second round of the EFL (Carabao) Cup back in August of this year. So we have an exact repeat of that fixture, but this time I think Marco Silva needs to show he is capable of mounting a cup run.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40932205

Watford 3 Bristol City 0 - this time around.

Watford's poor (dreadful) run of results followed Troy Deeney's highly publicised comments after Watford beat Arsenal 2-1 at home (14th Oct), saying opposition teams don't like Watford's aggressive style, opposition players can't hack it, lack the will to resist them and so are easily outmuscled by them. The very next game Watford were winning 1-2 at Chelsea and Chelsea decided to go aggressive and came back to outmuscle and beat Watford 2-4. That then provided a blueprint for other teams to beat Watford. Watford responded by ramping their own aggression levels and that was followed by a series of red-cards and player suspensions. Deeney himself received 2 red cards following his publicised comments and in total a 7 match suspension. Marco Silva has to respond to this challenge otherwise he will himself get sacked. I personally think he will turn it around in the premiership and will try to go on a cup run.

by No name Bertie Sat 06 Jan 2018, 8:50 pm

Coventry 2 - Stoke 1.

I watched the highlights of this match and Stoke were dreadful. Comical defending (giving the ball away) and rushed inept attacks. Watching that match revealed why Stoke have shipped in 47 goals in 22 Premiership games. I think the owners were forced to sack Mark Hughes shortly afterwards because Stoke looked lackadaisical, too many Stoke players not interested, poor link up play in attack ... despite playing a full strength side (more or less the same team they fielded for the Newcastle Premiership game). They last played a game on 1st January (loss to Newcastle), so they had five days to recover and prepare and there next game following this one is in 9 days time - so there was no need to rest players - hence the full strength side.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/stoke-city/scores-fixtures

by GSC Sun 07 Jan 2018, 5:56 pm

Hahahahahahaha

by Duty281 Sun 07 Jan 2018, 7:53 pm

GSC wrote:Hahahahahahaha

by Guest Mon 08 Jan 2018, 7:25 pm

Fourth round draw (selected)

Yeovil v Man Utd
Newport v Tottenham
Norwich or Chelsea v Newcastle
Cardiff or Mansfield v Man City
Liverpool v WBA
Southampton v Watford

by Steffan Mon 08 Jan 2018, 7:58 pm

Great draw for Newport

Cardiff got Man City at home if we beat Mansfield. Given the lack of form recently I would not bet on it. Hope so though. Last time we played Man City at home we beat them

I worked just outside Yeovil for a while. Nice little town and well done to them on the Man Utd draw. The town will benefit when all those folk from London come down watch their team

by GSC Mon 08 Jan 2018, 9:16 pm

Glad this storied local rivalry is getting a national audience

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Mon 08 Jan 2018, 9:46 pm

Woy throws the derby. Woy disrespects the cup. Woy turns his back on English football

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 7:56 pm

Dion Dublin's got me going there Sad

Regis was a part of one of the best FA Cup finals I've ever seen. 87 Spurs/Coventry.

Legend.

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 9:19 pm

That Pedro dive should be a red card. Dirty cheating bast*rd.

by Duty281 Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:00 pm

The clearest penalty (ever!) not given.

What's the point of VAR, then?

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:13 pm

He was falling before the clip. Game's gone mad!

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:22 pm

This Chelsea keeper is a bit of a bandit on pens. Nodge might want a winner in ET.

Is Olly at this game?

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:26 pm

Well there's some justice.

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:30 pm

Flopping like fish!

by Duty281 Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:32 pm

I like the referee cracking down on dissent and simulation.

Chelsea down to 9 and lost two good penalty-takers.

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:32 pm

It's beautiful to see, Duty!

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:33 pm

I still think Chelsea will win the shootout.

Entertaining game in the end.

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:35 pm

Shearer agreeing with the Freek, there!

by Duty281 Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:39 pm

No ABBA system?

Game's gone to pieces!

by Guest Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:42 pm

And the game was supposed to kick of at quarter-to (couldn't kick off if they wanted to...)

by Duty281 Wed 17 Jan 2018, 10:47 pm

Chelsea cruise the shoot-out, you are vindicated (my, my...)!

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 18 Jan 2018, 8:24 am

Shame we couldn't go through, but gave a good account of ourselves - good to continue to see our youngsters progress well

Also good to see a referee stand up to one of these big teams, and especially Chelsea's diving. The Pedro dive was the worst I've ever seen, embarrassing a grown man doing that.

Also good to see a ref actually send somebody off for dissent - too often they just allow players to surround and abuse them, start actually enforcing that law!

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 18 Jan 2018, 8:33 am

It's also really weird how badly it seems Shearer and co wanted VAR to fail. Bad reflection on them imo

by daraghj82 Thu 18 Jan 2018, 8:46 am

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Shame we couldn't go through, but gave a good account of ourselves - good to continue to see our youngsters progress well

Also good to see a referee stand up to one of these big teams, and especially Chelsea's diving. The Pedro dive was the worst I've ever seen, embarrassing a grown man doing that.

Also good to see a ref actually send somebody off for dissent - too often they just allow players to surround and abuse them, start actually enforcing that law!

agree 100pc with you pedro should get a retrospective ban for his dive , you were very good throughout and a shame the you didn't start well in the pens

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 18 Jan 2018, 12:19 pm

Haven’t seen Willian but Morata was fouled and had to go down because refs are so inept that they don’t give standing fouls

by Steffan Sat 20 Jan 2018, 7:28 pm

Got my ticket for the Man City game. First time I have ever sat in the extended Ninian Stand. Bring it on Cool

by Steffan Fri 26 Jan 2018, 8:04 pm

FA Cup weekend is upon is. Good luck to Yeovil Town. I worked just outside of there a few years back. Nice enough people (well as nice as you can get as far as English people go) so I hope they send the Man Utd fans back to London with grumpy faces

by Ent Fri 26 Jan 2018, 8:20 pm

Pitch a bit of a leveller here.

Rashford and carrick standing out the way every ujotedbplayer should be - obvious they are a cut above the opponent.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 27 Jan 2018, 4:18 pm

Obiang injured, Masuaku sent off for spitting (could be 6 games), so we're looking at no Arnie, Lanzini, Ayew, Masuaku, Antonio, Carroll, Obiang, Reid, Fonte, Sakho for the Palace game on Tuesday

by CaledonianCraig Sat 27 Jan 2018, 5:47 pm

Play up Sky Blues!! thumbsup

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