By Ian Chadband LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur negotiated a potentially tricky FA Cup trip to lowly Colchester United on Saturday with relative ease, winning their fourth-round tie 4-1 thanks largely to a double from Nacer Chadli. Colchester, bottom of the third tier League One, had been hoping to rekindle memories of one of the […]
Aston Villa forgot their Premier League woes and moved into the fourth round of the FA Cup with an unconvincing win over fourth tier Wycombe Wanderers.
REUTERS – Manager Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal’s heavy schedule has helped the side maintain a rich vein of form that continued with a 3-1 victory over Sunderland in an FA Cup third round tie on Saturday. The packed fixture list in England over the Christmas and New Year period has come under fire from several […]
REUTERS – Manager Claudio Ranieri believes he can confidently rotate his thin squad following Sunday’s 2-2 FA Cup draw with Tottenham Hotspur despite eight changes to their starting line-up. Leicester are now winless in four games in all competitions but the Foxes, despite being without Premier League’s joint top scorer Jamie Vardy and midfielder Riyad […]
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – It was not a day for FA Cup romantics as Manchester United scrambled past Sheffield United and minor league Eastleigh came within a whisker of causing the third round’s only genuine shock on Saturday. Old Trafford fans endured more than 90 minutes of insipid stalemate before Wayne Rooney’s stoppage-time […]
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Manchester United scraped into the FA Cup fourth round after a late penalty knocked out Sheffield United on Saturday but the Old Trafford gloom remained and former midfielder Paul Scholes says even the players are bored. Fans yawned through another laboured performance in the pouring rain as the 11-times […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Aston Villa could find no respite from their Premier League woes as they suffered the embarrassment of being held to a 1-1 draw at fourth-tier Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup third round on Saturday. Villa, seven points adrift at the foot of the league, became the second top-flight club to be […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Defender Brad Smith’s second-half goal rescued a 2-2 draw as injury-hit seven-times FA Cup winners Liverpool denied fourth tier Exeter City a notable third round giantkilling scalp on Friday. The Premier League outfit, playing their third match in less than a week and without 11 injured first-teamers, fielded a barely recognisable second-string […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea must not fall victim to another FA Cup giant-killing as they did last year because their chances of success in the Premier League are limited after a poor start to the season, manager Guus Hiddink said on Friday. Chelsea, who have lifted the Cup four times in the last nine years, […]
