FA Cup Final Thread - 2014/15 season

by Stella Sun 19 Apr 2015, 4:52 pm

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Lovren?

by Duty281 Sat 30 May 2015, 6:20 pm

What a beautiful finish by Walcott on his unfavoured left peg. Glorious.

Arsenal in danger of overrunning Villa at times; really, it should be at least 3-0 by now.

Villa not out of it, though. The Polish lad in goal is an error waiting to happen.

by Guest Sat 30 May 2015, 6:22 pm

hopefully this ends the ridiculous media obsession over Grealish, been awful. Villa playing counter football with no pace options, totally brainless. Agbonlahor needed ASAP

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:25 pm

One game and hes nowhere near been the worst player.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:27 pm

Paolo. Easily

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 6:27 pm

Duty281 wrote:What a beautiful finish by Walcott on his unfavoured left peg. Glorious.

Arsenal in danger of overrunning Villa at times; really, it should be at least 3-0 by now.

Villa not out of it, though. The Polish lad in goal is an error waiting to happen.

Yep got to love that he slammed it home on the one touch with his weaker foot into what less than half a yard of space. Unfortunately, the gunners are legendary for creating chances and not scoring and then making a defensive or goal keeping miscue to give it away. Villa very much in this but it really should be two or three nil by now.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:32 pm

No changes at half time for Villa. Did Sherwood watch the first half??

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:38 pm

Olly wrote:No changes at half time for Villa. Did Sherwood watch the first half??

No changes, 2-0, game over

by Guest Sat 30 May 2015, 6:38 pm

What a strike. Great gogoal, great player

by Guest Sat 30 May 2015, 6:39 pm

Awful from Villa & Sherwood. Game over & Benteke won't be staying. Good luck next season

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 6:40 pm

What a strike about alexis looking good now for the defending champs

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:44 pm

Charles N'Zogbia has started 22 matches this season and has been subbed off in 21.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:49 pm

Pahahahaha

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 6:51 pm

Olly you are looking like a genius if this scoreline holds up

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 6:58 pm

Whatever happened to that Gil Villa signed

by Holymiky Sat 30 May 2015, 7:00 pm

He's still there.

by **owen10ozzy** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:11 pm

Benteke has been terrible today; slow to every second ball. Not chasing it down after losing it. A player who has no interest in being at the club and is showing it. Disgraceful really!

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:14 pm

owen10ozzy wrote:Benteke has been terrible today; slow to every second ball. Not chasing it down after losing it. A player who has no interest in being at the club and is showing it. Disgraceful really!

Owen this is how he plays for most weeks of the season until it comes time to try get himself a move - he's really not that good, if anybody pays £32.5 million for him it'll be one of the worst buys of all time

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:18 pm

Conjecture all over the shop there, Owen. Looked up for it in the past few weeks. A striker playing up top on his own in a team getting brutally outplayed is surprisingly ineffective, but its all down to other motives really.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:20 pm

Villa haven't even had a shot on target lol

by Lowlandbrit Sat 30 May 2015, 7:21 pm

socal1976 wrote:Olly you are looking like a genius if this scoreline holds up

What was that, 3 seconds to go? Laugh

by GSC Sat 30 May 2015, 7:22 pm

Arsenal a cut above. Harsh on Villa but beaten by a better team

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:23 pm

Easiest cup final I can remember.

Feel for you Westi, arguably not a worse side for Villa to play considering their recent record.

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 7:23 pm

Lowlandbrit wrote:
socal1976 wrote:Olly you are looking like a genius if this scoreline holds up
What was that, 3 seconds to go?

Yeah got to love Giroud getting one as well. I guess Olly isn't a genius afterall.

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 7:25 pm

Wenger now the most successful manager in FA cup history and Arsenal the most decorated team in the history of the old cup. I am sure those two facts will annoy some people. Congrats to boys they all played really well. Can't think of a player who played and did badly.

by Duty281 Sat 30 May 2015, 7:27 pm

Well done Arsenal. clap

Can they start next season like that?

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:33 pm

Joint most successful manager, socal, Villa still have an old hero on 6 wins too (thank you BBC build up)

by socal1976 Sat 30 May 2015, 7:41 pm

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Joint most successful manager, socal, Villa still have an old hero on 6 wins too (thank you BBC build up)

Ok Olly how about the most successful living manager in FA cup history.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 30 May 2015, 7:41 pm

Yeah, Olly, how about that?

Southampton now in Europe.

by westisbest Sun 31 May 2015, 11:24 am

Olly wrote:
owen10ozzy wrote:Benteke has been terrible today; slow to every second ball. Not chasing it down after losing it. A player who has no interest in being at the club and is showing it. Disgraceful really!

Owen this is how he plays for most weeks of the season until it comes time to try get himself a move - he's really not that good, if anybody pays £32.5 million for him it'll be one of the worst buys of all time

You do talk some sh1t.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 31 May 2015, 12:27 pm

So you think (for example) Liverpool paying £32.5 million for a £10-15 million pound mid table striker (Everton, Newcastle, Swansea is his level, not Villa tbf) would be a good move?

Interesting

by NickisBHAFC Sun 31 May 2015, 2:16 pm

Well done to Arsenal. 2 cup wins in 2 years against Hull and Villa. Full credit to wenger doing a cracking job.

In all honesty arsenal were different gear yesterday.

by westisbest Sun 31 May 2015, 6:23 pm

We just never turned up.

Ill bet a lot of those villa fans wished they hadnt botherd.

Very dosapointing.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sun 31 May 2015, 6:48 pm

Olly wrote:So you think (for example) Liverpool paying £32.5 million for a £10-15 million pound mid table striker (Everton, Newcastle, Swansea is his level, not Villa tbf) would be a good move?

Interesting

To be honest I'm with Westi here. To think his value is £10-15 million is a joke. £32.5m is a little high, but hes got a 1 in 2 strike rate for a Villa side that has been pretty awful otherwise in his spell. He's 24 years old, has a better record in English football than Lukaku (who whilst being 2 years younger he went from Chelsea to Everton so it wasn't the "we'll see how much we can drain you of" tactic of small club to big club) who cost £28m. Villa don't need to sell him desperately and can use the fact that clubs are aware of his buyout fee to justify to Benteke why offers of a low amount are not accepted. I like Enner Valencia, but he cost us £12m at 24 having never played in Europe before and has scored 4 goals.

Benteke is gonna be at least £25m.

by westisbest Mon 01 Jun 2015, 9:10 am

Olly wrote:So you think (for example) Liverpool paying £32.5 million for a £10-15 million pound mid table striker (Everton, Newcastle, Swansea is his level, not Villa tbf) would be a good move?

Interesting

I think your dislike for Villa is clouding your judgement on a good player.

Maybe not quite woth £32m, but for me £25-28.

And to say he's not that good is just silly.

He was poor saturday, (as were the whole team).

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 01 Jun 2015, 1:26 pm

Just my opinion and eyes westi, don't think he's all he's made out to be personally.

Grealish looks a fabulous talent however

by Azzy Mon 01 Jun 2015, 1:30 pm

I'd rather have Balotelli for £19m than Benteke for £32.5m - at least with Mario there's some resale value, Benteke is another Andy Carroll waiting to happen. And I'm a Belgium fan.

by **Hero** Mon 01 Jun 2015, 1:48 pm

And also a West Brom one...

by Azzy Mon 01 Jun 2015, 1:57 pm

Hey, Benteke is a good player, don't get me wrong. But for £32.5m you could buy Tevez, Ribery, Ronaldo's left peg, Bony + £10m, Mandzukic + £5m, Lacazette...plenty of much better options out there and none of them lose their value after a poor season. Benteke was looking at a £10m valuation at Christmas, lest we forget.

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