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Walsall matchwinner Luke Leahy described their last-gasp 2-1 win over hometown rivals Coventry City as the best feeling of his career, having netted two stoppage-time goals on Saturday. Continue reading “How the Coventry City supporting slayer reacted to his deadly double”
Two stoppage-time goals completely changed the complexity during an otherwise frustrating collective display from Walsall on Saturday. It was evidenced by matchwinner Leahy’s comments post-match, admitting Coventry were the better side in their last-gasp 2-1 win. However, the result said more about their resilience – leapfrogging Saturday’s opponents into the top half. Continue reading “Analysis: Walsall grab surprise win at pivotal time with tough fixtures to come”
Moses Emmanuel’s second-half screamer earned National League South leaders Billericay Town an FA Cup replay as Chesterfield relinquished their slender lead and were ultimately made to rue missed chances.
Continue reading “Chesterfield 1-1 Billericay Town: Emmanuel’s screamer secures FA Cup replay”
National League side Chesterfield will be eager to avoid a memorable upset as this season’s FA Cup proper kicks off this weekend – up against non-league Billericay Town in one of tomorrow’s 3pm fixtures.
Continue reading “FA Cup First Round – Chesterfield vs Billericay Town Preview: Upset on the cards?”
Chelsea have won this season’s FA Cup following a slender 1-0 victory over Manchester United, following Eden Hazard’s well-taken penalty midway through the first-half. United themselves created chances aplenty but the Blues held firm defensively when needed and were helped by important saves by Thibaut Courtois during a nervy second-half at Wembley. Continue reading “Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United: Hazard’s penalty seals Blues’ eighth FA Cup trophy”
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A warm reception away at Preston, followed by a well-taken brace to help secure passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup past Southampton has helped justify limited transfer activity in attack recently.
Continue reading “Analysis: Welbeck’s patient return to first-team action”
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Continue reading “Player focus: Ainsley Maitland-Niles’ under-rated display vs Preston”
Watford have knocked out FA Cup holders Arsenal in effective fashion, following a second-half counter-attack charge led by the fearsome duo of Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo. The latter broke the deadlock after swiveling his way past Gabriel in the box, before cooly slotting low and hard into the bottom corner with second-choice goalkeeper David Ospina helpless to stop his effort.
Adlène Guedioura stole the show with a truly excellent strike from range, thumping the ball past Ospina into the roof of the net to double the lead with the clock ticking down gradually. The Hornets had stung a surprise, and it was definitely an unwelcome one for their hosts – considering Arsenal were yet to score, in spite of their domination. Having seen far more possession, creating more opportunities and passing the ball into the final third with dangerous chances aplenty, Arséne Wenger‘s men had nothing to show for their control.
Willock has been regularly training with the first-team and impressed, so much so, that he’s been included in matchday squads recently too. Along with the likes of Krystian Bielik, Julio Pleguezuelo and Ben Sheaf, he’s amongst a highly-rated crop of youngsters in his age-group, and has already featured for the England national side too at various youth levels.
Continue reading “18-year-old winger Chris Willock destined for exciting future, says Wenger”
Kelechi Iheanacho. Despite finding regular minutes hard to come by in an ever-improving Manchester City side, the talented young Nigerian forward has maintained his aspiration – to keep improving and establish himself in England’s top flight. An admirable attitude, self-belief and undeniable quality were all on-show as the 19-year-old scored a well-taken hat-trick to help seal the Citizens’ passage into this year’s FA Cup Fifth Round.
Remi Garde‘s Aston Villa side were out-of-sorts, and struggled to create much in the final third. But in fairness, the visitors had too much quality for them to deal with sufficiently, and ran out deserved winners at Villa Park.
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