Carabao Cup & FA Cup Thread

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

I think at the moment they are relying heavily on the good form of Mertesacker, Ramsey, Ozil and Giroud. Those 4 are carrying Arsenal at the moment. If we can stop Ozil, Ramsey and Giroud I have a feeling we will easily beat them.

[Jase 43,479]

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1589370/theo-walcott-suffers-further-injury-setback?cc=4716

Walcott to miss this clash next Tuesday.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Difficult match ahead.Arsenal are in a good form ( faced small teams, but still).At the Emirates it will be tough, we'll lose if we approach the game like we are doing right now (Possession, small passes, low tempo).Arsene wants to win against José, he never did, I hope it will never happen, so a draw would be great.MM cup isnt the priority for us.

[Korea 734]

Didn't we play all second team players last season vs United for the CC?

I fully expect Jose to do the same with Oscar, hazard and rambo waiting on the bench...

[The_Flash 1,144]

Maybe the board can try with FA and TV to move the match against City to Saturday instead? Why couldn't Spurs match be moved to the Tuesday then? UGH!

Or no, Mourinho just said this in the PC

Chelsea FC ‏@chelseafc 2m

Mourinho: 'We play Man City on Sunday before cup game v Arsenal on Tues, so our Under-21 side will probably have a great experience.' #CFC

So we'll play the u-21 against Arsenal?

I really hope not as a club we don't need to be embarrassed as we could put our under 16s on and the papers would still say 'Chelsea thumped by Arsenal.'

[Jase 43,479]

I really hope not as a club we don't need to be embarrassed as we could put our under 16s on and the papers would still say 'Chelsea thumped by Arsenal.'

You would be a fool if you take Mourinho's words seriously there.

Those players that won't be starting or playing this Sunday against City will start against Arsenal next Tuesday.

[JDY 1,290]

He's only saying that because The Football League always have a go at the bigger clubs for fielding weaker sides and 'not taking the cup seriously'. The scheduling of the fixture 2 days after a massive game vs. City completely contradicts everything they have said. If they want clubs to take it seriously, give them adequate time to prepare for the game.

Mourinho is just playing on the fact that they fucked up, we won't play U21's.

[Tomo 21,751]

What's the score with Kalas? could this be the game he makes his CFC debut?

[JDY 1,290]

Is anyone going to the game by the way? Got 3 tickets myself, the 9 thousand allocation sold out very very fast.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I would like to see us win and really compete for some more trophies this year

[Jase 43,479]

Results today:

Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea

Birmingham 4-4 Stoke (Stoke win 4-2 on penalties)

Burnley 0-2 West Ham

Leicester 4-3 Fulham

Man United 4-0 Norwich

Tomorrow:

Newcastle v Manchester City

Tottenham v Hull

Next week:

Sunderland v Southampton

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Results today:

Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea

Birmingham 4-4 Stoke (Stoke win 4-2 on penalties)

Burnley 0-2 West Ham

Leicester 4-3 Fulham

Man United 4-0 Norwich

Tomorrow:

Newcastle v Manchester City

Tottenham v Hull

The draw for the quarter finals straight after the last match as per usual?