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Mikel Arteta: ‘It is unbelievable. We deserved to win the sport by a mile’
Mikel Arteta says that Gabriel Jesus is “not wanting good” after he was stretchered off within the first half. He additionally says this:
It’s unbelievable. We deserved to win the sport by a mile however the actuality is we didn’t. I like my gamers, I like my group and I like how good they’re and what they do. It’s important to perceive that is a part of our trade, our sport, and transfer on. And on Wednesday we now have an enormous one. It’s soccer. Credit score to their goalkeeper as effectively, who was most likely their greatest participant. You want issues to go your method and tonight they didn’t. We scored a aim, we had a penalty, we had one other three huge, huge probabilities, and we didn’t put them away. It’s an unbelievable group. I’m so happy with my gamers, I like my gamers. I couldn’t be prouder.
Raya’s try to save lots of that is additionally fairly humorous:
That is really hilarious:
Once more, United overperformed away from dwelling towards one of many nation’s prime sides. They’re thirteenth within the league in the mean time: eleventh greatest towards top-half groups (in 11 video games) and 14th-best towards bottom-half groups (in 9 video games). Six of their subsequent eight league fixtures are towards groups within the backside half, and the opposite two towards the edges at present ninth and tenth.
Some evaluation from ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston:
For Arsenal to lose two cup video games at dwelling, in such fast succession, is devastating. The guts has gone out of this group. The absence of Saka isn’t any sort of enough clarification or justification. I’m an amazing believer that managers have to be given time and constant help. However I can not see any sort of technique from Arteta and his colleagues that will remodel us into trophy winners from our present standing as honourable runners up
For Arsenal to lose two cup video games at dwelling, in such fast succession, is devastating. The guts has gone out of this group. The absence of Saka isn’t any sort of enough clarification or justification. I’m an amazing believer that managers have to be given time and constant…
— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 12, 2025
Ruben Amorim has a chat:
We needed to compete it doesn’t matter what, and we competed at the moment. They’d extra probabilities however I feel we deserved the win, the best way we performed, the best way we fought. It was actually robust, from the start we didn’t have the ball an excessive amount of however we managed with out the ball. Now we now have to relaxation the gamers, I’m already enthusiastic about the following sport. They’re actually drained.
Generally we now have the sensation that all the things ultimately goes to be OK. I felt that from the start of the second half, and I feel additionally the Arsenal group felt that at the moment will not be their day. I’m actually happy for the best way we managed the sport with out the ball, set items we have been actually robust. We deserved to go by means of this spherical as a result of we suffered all collectively and we labored actually onerous.
The FA Cup fourth-round attract full:
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Manchester United v Leicester
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Leeds v Millwall or Dagenham
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Brighton v Chelsea
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Preston or Charlton v Wycombe
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Exeter v Nottingham Forest
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Coventry v Ipswich
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Blackburn v Wolves
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Mansfield or Wigan v Fulham
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Birmingham v Newcastle
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Plymouth v Liverpool
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Everton v Bournemouth
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Aston Villa v Tottenham
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Southampton or Swansea v Burnley
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Leyton Orient or Derby v Manchester Metropolis
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Doncaster v Crystal Palace
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Stoke v Cardiff
Ties to be performed from February 7-10.
A superb fourth-round draw has concluded, and I’ll carry you the line-up shortly. First, a few match reviews for you. Louise Taylor noticed Newcastle beat Bromley:
Throughout 5 years on Newcastle’s payroll Andy Woodman’s apparently infinite provide of jokes prompted loads of coaching floor laughter however membership insiders knew higher than to underestimate their goalkeeping coach.
That judgement was vindicated as, a decade after leaving Tyneside, Woodman returned as Bromley’s supervisor. Finally the group at present twelfth in League Two couldn’t forestall their hosts from recording an eighth straight victory in all competitions however, for fairly some time, Woodman’s meticulously organised gamers annoyed Eddie Howe’s Premier League high-flyers.
Way more right here:
And Ed Aarons noticed Crystal Palace edge previous Stockport:
For Crystal Palace supporters of a sure classic, any assembly with Stockport is sure to carry again fond recollections of Dougie Freedman’s heroics in 2001. Greater than 20 years on from his late aim that ensured Palace averted relegation to the third tier on the ultimate day of the season and having spent a lot of the intervening interval travelling in numerous instructions, solely an early strike from Eberechi Eze might separate Dave Challinor’s facet from their Premier League opponents.
Oliver Glasner was grateful that Palace’s stand-in goalkeeper Matt Turner – who stepped in after a illness bug dominated out Dean Henderson – stood agency within the second half as Stockport sniffed the chance of an upset.
Way more right here:
“Sterling hasn’t been enjoyable to observe for anybody my buddy,” writes Niall Fogarty. “He’s merely not an clever footballer. His contribution to this sport has been as an outlet for United to breathe slightly sigh of reduction as they know subsequent to nothing will come from him.” Finally this was certainly the case, however I feel the one Arsenal gamers who actually challenged United’s defence have been Sterling, Odegaard and Rice. Havertz was clearly horrible, and Trossard poor as soon as he got here on.
Manchester United are the primary title out of the hat plastic drum within the fourth-round draw, and so they’ll play Leicester at dwelling!
The fourth-round draw is about to occur and we’ve bought a separate liveblog for that:
Altay Bayindir and Bruno Fernandes have a fast chat. Beginning with the United captain:
Clearly, the circumstances of the sport, we suffered lots and sacrificed lots as a group, and on the finish you get this. It’s robust to be second goalkeeper, he got here right here to play. At any time when he will get his likelihood he’s top-class for us. He actually deserved this second.
Bayindir, the person of the match, says all the appropriate issues:
I simply helped my group. I’m working each group. I need to assist this nice group. Simply I need to make everybody glad for this nice membership. In the event you’re not taking part in, it doesn’t matter. In the event you’re a Manchester United participant you must be prepared at all times. On daily basis [Amorim} is talking with us and trying to help us. We’re trusting him, he’s trusting us, we’re fighting together.
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 3-5 Manchester United! 10-man United go through!
Joshua Zirkzee converts calmly! Raya once again goes early and wrong, and makes the taker’s job easy. Zirkzee doesn’t find the corner, and doesn’t need to. It’s all over!
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 3-4 Manchester United
Partey does his job, getting enough height on his shot to give Bayindir no chance! Can Zirkzee win it?
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 2-4 Manchester United
Lisandro Martinez convinces Raya to commit, and sidefoots it down the middle of a now-empty net. Now Thomas Partey must score!
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 2-3 Manchester United
Bayindir goes the right way again, but Declan Rice’s penalty is just too accurate and there’s no stopping it.
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 1-3 Manchester United
Leny Yoro tucks his penalty away! It’s a pretty similar penalty to Havertz’s, only heading to the other corner of the net, and Raya went the wrong way.
Penalty shoot-out: SAVED! Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United
Kai Havertz misses again! He sidefoots low and pretty slow, and Bayindir goes the right way!
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United
Excellent penalty from Amad, who whips it into the corner. Raya goes the wrong way again.
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 1-1 Manchester United
Martin Odegaard hits a very similar penalty, Bayindir dives in a very similar direction, and there’s a very similar outcome!
Penalty shoot-out: Arsenal 0-1 Manchester United
Fernandes’s dancing feet bewitch Raya, and then he sidefoots into the empty half of the net!
Bruno Fernandes is going to start the shootout himself. Right, let’s do this.
United will also take the first penalty. Arsenal’s final xG tally was 8.23, with one goal to show for it.
Bruno Fernandes wins the coin toss, and the penalties will be taken at the United end.
In the end, the second half and extra time have almost completely expunged my memory of a very poor opening half and thus this goes down as a minor thriller. Arsenal should have won it at a canter, but Kai Havertz has completely forgotten how to score goals, Altay Bayindir is wearing his lucky gloves, and now it’s anyone’s tie.
To penalties!
120+2 mins: It’s kind-of-cleared, passed around a bit, crossed in again, kind-of-cleared again, and this time the referee’s had enough!
120+1 mins: There’ll be just one minute of stoppage time, and Arsenal have won a corner 20 seconds into it.
120 mins: … which Bayindir boots down the left and out of touch, obviously.
119 mins: Another Arsenal cross is headed clear, and this time the referee blows for a free-kick, Havertz having bundled into Mazraoui.
118 mins: Odegaard sends yet another left-footed cross into the area from the right, but it’s just too high for Havertz, who top-of-the-heads it out of play.
117 mins: … which Bayindir boots down the left and out of touch, obviously.
116 mins: It’s headed clear. Arsenal win a throw-in and Sterling runs into the penalty area again, but he knocks the ball a bit too far. Goal kick.
116 mins: Another Arsenal corner, after Malacia heads Rice’s cross behind.
24 mins: Fernandes brings Sterling down and concedes a free-kick on the right. It’s taken short and Sterling runs into the area, but Malacia gets in his way and eventually wins a free-kick of his own. The BBC inform us that in final-third passes Arsenal lead 212-38.
113 mins: He is going off, though! Kieran Tierney is on. Jorginho looks to be feeling a groin muscle as he left the field.
112 mins: The physio is on, and working on Jorginho, who is on his feet and presumably not likely to go off, with penalties on the horizon.
111 mins: This time United keep it and put a decent attack together, but at the end of it Amad heads wide.
110 mins: Sterling is given offside (wrongly, I think) in United’s penalty area, giving Bayindir another chance to hit a long ball down the left.
108 mins: Arsenal win their 10th corner. It’s played short, popped around a bit, and eventually Martinelli’s looping header drops to Bayindir.
106 mins: United nearly score! Zirkzee finds Amad with an excellent pass, who sends it back again with another fine pass. He tries to beat Raya at the far post but the shot is deflected towards the near, only for the keeper to fingertip it wide!
106 mins: Play has restarted!
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