FA Cup 17/18 Thread

[Fernando]

Ipswich vs Sheff Utd
Watford vs Bristol City
Birmingham vs Burton
Liverpool vs Everton
Brighton vs Crystal Palace
Aston Villa vs Woking or Peterbrough
Ballmouth vs Afc Fylde or Wigan
Coventry vs Stoke
Newport vs Leeds
Bolton vs Huddersfield
Port Vale/Yeovil vs Bradford
Notts Forest vs Arsenal
Brentford vs Notts County
QPR vs MK Dons
Man Utd vs Derby
Forest Green/Exeter vs WBA
Doncaster vs Slough or Rochdale
Spurs vs AFC Wombledon
Middlesbrough vs Sunderland
Fleetwood or Hereford vs Leicester
Blackburn or Crewe vs Hull
Cardiff vs Mansfield
Man City vs Burnley
Shrewsbury vs West Ham
Wolves vs Swansea
Stevenage vs Reading
Newcastle vs Luton
Millwall vs Barnsley
Fulham vs Southampton
Wycombe vs Preston
Nodge vs Chelsea
Gillingham or Carlisle vs Sheff Wed

[Crimey]

Merseyside derby!

[westisbest]

Upsets

Bristol City at Watford
Coventry home to stoke
Shrewsbury home to West Ham

[No name Bertie]

Bristol City have already beaten Watford at Watford in the second round of the EFL (Carabao) Cup back in August of this year. So we have an exact repeat of that fixture, but this time I think Marco Silva needs to show he is capable of mounting a cup run.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40932205

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Bolasie looks rusty but Robertson is petrified of being done for pace. Keep him going

[GSC]

Fairly soft pen but Liverpool lead 1-0.

Not much doing here

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Ref all over the shop, soft pen, Holgate should be off, loads of rougher stuff than the pen let go

[westisbest]

Never a pen for me.
Very soft

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Opening up, Van Dijk should score from a free header

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Young Everton side in danger of being washed out here. Someone needs to put their foot on the ball

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1-1 Sigurdsson, brilliant counter attack

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Madley aint gonna grade well for this game

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Pickford comes for a cross and doesn't get near, Van Dijk with an easy header

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Liverpool probably edged it but Everton can feel aggrieved.

I'd If I were Klopp I'd be asking Juve if they'd take Can early

[GSC]

Meanwhile sounds like all the journos are running Mourinhos latest comments past the lawyers before printing so that's fun

[Hero]

It's an interesting one. Presume he can say it as firstly he himself doesn't refer to Conte, the interviewer raises his name and Mourinho makes out he wasn't aware of that (which of course he is), and secondly his comment is factually correct, Conte was suspended for match fixing, he later had that overturned and was acquitted but he was suspended.
I expect Conte is about to blow a fuse in his next interview though.

[GSC]

It's all pretty playground for middle aged men paid millions.

[Guest]

Looks like the Leicester team felt sorry for Vardy missing out through injury, so they've organised a replay for him

[westisbest]

Oops. That’s us out the cup.
Disappointing, but really need to concentrate on fighting for promotion.

Bit worrying all the same with these so called good youngsters.
Well done to Peterborough.

[No name Bertie]

Bristol City have already beaten Watford at Watford in the second round of the EFL (Carabao) Cup back in August of this year. So we have an exact repeat of that fixture, but this time I think Marco Silva needs to show he is capable of mounting a cup run.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40932205

Watford 3 Bristol City 0 - this time around.

Watford's poor (dreadful) run of results followed Troy Deeney's highly publicised comments after Watford beat Arsenal 2-1 at home (14th Oct), saying opposition teams don't like Watford's aggressive style, opposition players can't hack it, lack the will to resist them and so are easily outmuscled by them.  The very next game Watford were winning 1-2 at Chelsea and Chelsea decided to go aggressive and came back to outmuscle and beat Watford 2-4.  That then provided a blueprint for other teams to beat Watford.  Watford responded by ramping their own aggression levels and that was followed by a series of red-cards and player suspensions.  Deeney himself received 2 red cards following his publicised comments and in total a 7 match suspension.   Marco Silva has to respond to this challenge otherwise he will himself get sacked.  I personally think he will turn it around in the premiership and will try to go on a cup run.

[No name Bertie]

Coventry 2 - Stoke 1.

I watched the highlights of this match and Stoke were dreadful.  Comical defending (giving the ball away) and rushed inept attacks.   Watching that match revealed why Stoke have shipped in 47 goals in 22 Premiership games.  I think the owners were forced to sack Mark Hughes shortly afterwards because Stoke looked lackadaisical, too many Stoke players not interested, poor link up play in attack ... despite playing a full strength side (more or less the same team they fielded for the Newcastle Premiership game).  They last played a game on 1st January (loss to Newcastle), so they had five days to recover and prepare and there next game following this one is in 9 days time - so there was no need to rest players - hence the full strength side.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/stoke-city/scores-fixtures

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Hahahahahahaha

[Duty281]

Hahahahahahaha

[Guest]

Fourth round draw (selected)

Yeovil v Man Utd
Newport v Tottenham
Norwich or Chelsea v Newcastle
Cardiff or Mansfield v Man City
Liverpool v WBA
Southampton v Watford

[Steffan]

Great draw for Newport

Cardiff got Man City at home if we beat Mansfield. Given the lack of form recently I would not bet on it. Hope so though. Last time we played Man City at home we beat them

I worked just outside Yeovil for a while. Nice little town and well done to them on the Man Utd draw. The town will benefit when all those folk from London come down watch their team

[GSC]

Glad this storied local rivalry is getting a national audience

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Woy throws the derby. Woy disrespects the cup. Woy turns his back on English football

[Guest]

Dion Dublin's got me going there

Regis was a part of one of the best FA Cup finals I've ever seen. 87 Spurs/Coventry.

Legend.

[Guest]

That Pedro dive should be a red card. Dirty cheating bast*rd.

[Duty281]

The clearest penalty (ever!) not given.

What's the point of VAR, then?

[Guest]

He was falling before the clip. Game's gone mad!

[Guest]

This Chelsea keeper is a bit of a bandit on pens. Nodge might want a winner in ET.

Is Olly at this game?

[Guest]

Well there's some justice.

[Guest]

Flopping like fish!

[Duty281]

I like the referee cracking down on dissent and simulation.

Chelsea down to 9 and lost two good penalty-takers.

[Guest]

It's beautiful to see, Duty!

[Guest]

I still think Chelsea will win the shootout.

Entertaining game in the end.

[Guest]

Shearer agreeing with the Freek, there!

[Duty281]

No ABBA system?

Game's gone to pieces!

[Guest]

And the game was supposed to kick of at quarter-to (couldn't kick off if they wanted to...)

[Duty281]

Chelsea cruise the shoot-out, you are vindicated (my, my...)!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Shame we couldn't go through, but gave a good account of ourselves - good to continue to see our youngsters progress well

Also good to see a referee stand up to one of these big teams, and especially Chelsea's diving. The Pedro dive was the worst I've ever seen, embarrassing a grown man doing that.

Also good to see a ref actually send somebody off for dissent - too often they just allow players to surround and abuse them, start actually enforcing that law!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

It's also really weird how badly it seems Shearer and co wanted VAR to fail. Bad reflection on them imo

[daraghj82]

Shame we couldn't go through, but gave a good account of ourselves - good to continue to see our youngsters progress well

Also good to see a referee stand up to one of these big teams, and especially Chelsea's diving. The Pedro dive was the worst I've ever seen, embarrassing a grown man doing that.

Also good to see a ref actually send somebody off for dissent - too often they just allow players to surround and abuse them, start actually enforcing that law!

agree 100pc with you pedro should get a retrospective ban for his dive , you were very good throughout and a shame the you didn't start well in the pens

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Haven’t seen Willian but Morata was fouled and had to go down because refs are so inept that they don’t give standing fouls

[Steffan]

Got my ticket for the Man City game. First time I have ever sat in the extended Ninian Stand. Bring it on

[Steffan]

FA Cup weekend is upon is. Good luck to Yeovil Town. I worked just outside of there a few years back. Nice enough people (well as nice as you can get as far as English people go) so I hope they send the Man Utd fans back to London with grumpy faces

[Ent]

Pitch a bit of a leveller here.

Rashford and carrick standing out the way every ujotedbplayer should be - obvious they are a cut above the opponent.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Obiang injured, Masuaku sent off for spitting (could be 6 games), so we're looking at  no Arnie, Lanzini, Ayew, Masuaku, Antonio, Carroll, Obiang, Reid, Fonte, Sakho for the Palace game on Tuesday

[CaledonianCraig]

Play up Sky Blues!!

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