Showing posts with label Wigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wigan. Show all posts

Monday, 14 April 2014

FA Cup review - 12th/13th April 2014

In this weekends FA Cup games Arsenal narrowly beat Wigan on penalties to make it to the final. 

This game was on the back off Arsenal recent three nil loss to Everton. So Arsenal played in a very cautious approach and where worried about conceding. 

However once Wigan went one nil up all of the sudden Arsenal's previous cautious attitude went out of the window and they became a lot more of an attacking force. 

This approach helped Arsenal to get the equaliser but it took the penalty shoot out  of them to go through. 

Wigan played well and they did all they could to win the game but they came up short in the penalty shoot out. When their first two penalty shots where saved by Lukas Fabianski. 

Arsene Wenger will be a very relieved manager and he knew that if he lost this game that would have probably been the end of his time as an Arsenal Manager.

He started off playing with a much more attacking team and even put Olivier Giroud on the bench. He brought on Giroud as a sub and he was much more effective. 

So Arsenal are through and they will play Hull City who beat Sheffield United by three goals to two to make it to the final. 

Monday, 10 March 2014

FA Cup - quarter finals - 8th/9th March 2014

The quarter finals of the FA Cup took place over the weekend and Arsenal beat Everton by four goals to one. 

This was a tremendous result for Arsenal and it really made me feel optimistic for the remainder of the season.

Arsenal would have been expecting to play Manchester City in the quarter finals. However Wigan beat Manchester City by two goals to one to make to the semi-finals. 

Manchester City have been playing great football and have already one the League Cup. As this tie was played in Manchester I just did not see how Wigan could beat them. 

Some how they managed to pull off this remarkable victory and they now play Arsenal in the semi finals.