That loss meant Arsenal have failed to win any of their last eight league meetings with Chelsea dating back to their previous success in October 2011 and, even more remarkably, they have been unable to muster a single goal in the last five of those matches.
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“The FA Cup is an important competition for us and we showed we have a squad that is good enough to compete in every competition”, Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said.
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri thinks the gap between the Barclays Premier League elite and the rest of the division is narrowing. However they have lost their last 4 league games away from home and now visit Old Trafford, a generally hard place to get a result.
TV coverage showed hundreds of empty seats at Leicester City’s third-round replay against Spurs, with many home fans missing the start of the game.
Townsend has not featured for Tottenham since clashing with fitness coach Nathan Gardiner in November, but Pochettino has claimed the Premier League should boost match day squads from 18 to 25.
In a contrarian season I find myself with all the contrary plays this week.
The Potters threw away a 2-0 lead and had to settle for a point in the reverse fixture between these two teams in September; the home team has not won when these two sides have met in the Premier League, a trend Stoke will hope continues this weekend. Chelsea fans have accepted that their team won’t defend its Premier League title this season, but they’d love to help ruin the bid of their London rivals.
“We often meet together off the pitch and it’ll be great to play against him again this weekend”, Son stated via his club’s official Twitter feed.
“Leicester have probably surprised themselves this season”, Hughes said, according to PremierLeague.com.
‘I want to give everything to always improve myself, that’s what I’ve been doing this year and hopefully I will reach my targets, my number of goals, to help this team to win the title. “I think we deserved this victory”.
Messi was absent due to a hamstring problem, whilst Suarez completed a two-game Cup ban, but the visitors still took control of the tie with two goals in six first-half minutes from Munir El Haddadi and Neymar.
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