🏆 The Emirates FA Cup - 2025/2026 soon

[Silikiem]

Liverpool suffered a heavy defeat, as did Arsenal. It was a truly unfortunate day to start the season after the international break.

I didn’t understand how Manchester City was able to make such quick and easy work on Liverpool. I was expecting a very difficult performance in this one but, Manchester City saw how they could miss the chance on lifting yet another trophy and didn’t want to give anything out to Liverpool. Pep is surely looking to bag yet another trophy to shade the team’s performance this season.

They have to prepare for the Champions League in the coming days, and after a result like this, the prospect of defeat looms large for Arsenal. It's no wonder images like this are circulating on social media.

https://x.com/TrollFootball/status/2040538691580657833

Arsenal haven’t got any excuse for this performance. They might have a champions league game up ahead but, so does Bayern Munich and PSG yet, they are find ways to win in their local league. Arteta just isn’t ready to lift a trophy.

Arsenal is a disgrace of a club, how can Arsenal be loosing to Southampton, Arsenal have made a mockery of themselves, well I’m not surprised because Arsenal isn’t a good team, and they’re not playing well at all, Southampton seems like a team that was ready to fight against Arsenal, people where saying that Arsenal was going to win a Quadruple, well at this point only two competitions is left and that is what is happening with at the end of the season and its always like a tradition for them to misbehave when the season is going to come to an end, i wouldn’t be surprised if Arsenal end up trophyless this season, because everything is absolutely possible in the Premier League and Football.

I’m not surprised by the Arsenal loss to Southampton, remember most of this Arsenal players were been withdrawn from their international duties last week with their national team side citing injury concerns so it’s obvious that even though some of these players featured in this game there’s a possibility they are not fit enough to play the game, and moreover if you look at Southampton and Arsenal players combined in this match majority of the Arsenal players have a very busy 2 week’s traveling to their various national team games for international matches meanwhile I don’t think any of this Southampton players were that busy playing for international duties and they looked fresh all weeks only training and preparing for this match against Arsenal. The loss which looks more embarrassing and disgraceful to me is the loss Of Liverpool against Manchester city. Liverpool lost 4:0 against Manchester city even without Pep Guardiola on the touch line as a coach of man city, he have to watch from the stand as he’s been suspended for that very game but still Manchester city managed to beat Liverpool 4:0. That’s quite embarrassing considering how much Liverpool have spent this season and they won’t say that there players were having a busy weekend because obviously even the Manchester city players all were on international duties too.

[Umulala-alala]

Watching my own team get beaten by Manchester City, and then seeing Arsenal lose to Southampton, made me wonder if Arsenal sacrificed the FA Cup to stay in and focus on the Premier League, where they’re 9 points behind with one more game played than Manchester City.

With Arsenal’s elimination from the FA Cup, they might take out their frustration on Manchester City when they face them on April 19, if the schedule doesn’t change.
The Champions League might be a tough challenge for Arsenal, but Arteta will prioritize the Premier League if they can.

I know that Liverpool fans wouldn't be happy with that result 4-0 was much for a club like Liverpool i didn't expect that. Arsenal doesn't have any excuse against their loss to Southampton in the FA cup and if they don't take time they might also loss premier league title to Man city. With what Arsenal is playing recently if there is no improvement they can't get a win against Paris Saint German in both legs of the uefa champions league.

[leea-1334]

The deal day is already here as both teams are about to prove there worth on the game, but with the way the game is going now i will say Liverpool is too weak to face the almighty City in all rectification.  Its already 3 goals down in the 50th minutes of the game with a super possession and dominating strength that will deprive Liverpool access to see the back of Manchester City's net.
With the way the game is going I will be pleased to tell you that it may end in 4 to 5 goals at last and not the draw prediction as mentioned above.

Knew they would lose but this is a big embarassment IMO,,, with all respect to Liverpool, City does not even have the strongest squad. And now they gave Haaland a hattrick, you can be sure his pride and confidence is all gonna come flowing back.

I’m not paying much attention to their head-to-head stats, even though Manchester City is the home team in this match.
The match has already started, and Manchester City is controlling the game for now, as it’s still under 10 minutes in.

I read this specific stat that before the game it was 6 wins, 6 draws, 6 losses in these 2 teams. The definition of evenly matched.

So,,, 0-4 loss is a big shock.

[karabiber]

West Ham is having a grueling season. However, their recent resurgence has recharged their batteries. Moreover, focusing on the cup with a sense of history and setting their sights on Wembley is exactly the scenario everyone expected. Leeds, on the other hand, has a strong away record and makes good use of counterattacks. On paper, this is a closely matched game. However, it will be a physical contest, and the home advantage will be significant. Both teams could score. However, I expect West Ham to win and advance to the next round.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I actually think West Ham will win today, I think their form has improved a lot from the early parts of the season. Leeds are a proper battling team but I just feel that West Ham with home advantage will have the edge.

What I do hope is that Man City and Chelsea face each other in the semi finals so it means either Southampton or the winner of the match today make the final.

[SFR10]

On paper, this is a closely matched game. However, it will be a physical contest, and the home advantage will be significant. Both teams could score. However, I expect West Ham to win and advance to the next round.

I agree with almost everything that you've said and despite reading reports about Calvert-Lewin probably missing the game, the few injured West Ham players at the back make me believe this is going to be another FA Cup game where the winner will be decided after the extra time & penalties ^{[BTTS is probably the safest bet for this game]}.

[Egii Nna]

Watching my own team get beaten by Manchester City, and then seeing Arsenal lose to Southampton, made me wonder if Arsenal sacrificed the FA Cup to stay in and focus on the Premier League, where they’re 9 points behind with one more game played than Manchester City.

With Arsenal’s elimination from the FA Cup, they might take out their frustration on Manchester City when they face them on April 19, if the schedule doesn’t change.
The Champions League might be a tough challenge for Arsenal, but Arteta will prioritize the Premier League if they can.

I know that Liverpool fans wouldn't be happy with that result 4-0 was much for a club like Liverpool i didn't expect that. Arsenal doesn't have any excuse against their loss to Southampton in the FA cup and if they don't take time they might also loss premier league title to Man city. With what Arsenal is playing recently if there is no improvement they can't get a win against Paris Saint German in both legs of the uefa champions league.

Arsenal I don’t know why, but having hope in Arsenal is something disgraceful. What will Arsenal say? Nothing. Although they want to prove themselves, they are still seen as trophyless. So now, let’s just wait and see. Last last, they might end up only with the Premier League trophy, and that is if they put more effort into their performance. If not, even that, they might end up losing it to Manchester City.

[Zoomic]

Watching my own team get beaten by Manchester City, and then seeing Arsenal lose to Southampton, made me wonder if Arsenal sacrificed the FA Cup to stay in and focus on the Premier League, where they’re 9 points behind with one more game played than Manchester City.

Arsenal didn't sacrifice anything. They could not just win it and I am surprised and afraid at the same time. Surprised because Arsenal has already missed 2 cups and afraid because it seems that Arteta is not doing it on purpose.

With Arsenal’s elimination from the FA Cup, they might take out their frustration on Manchester City when they face them on April 19, if the schedule doesn’t change.
The Champions League might be a tough challenge for Arsenal, but Arteta will prioritize the Premier League if they can.

If Arsenal meets Manchester City this season 4 times, Manchester City is going to beat them for the whole 4 times. Arteta has not learnt how to beat his boss. That's the simple truth.

[Stepstowealth]

With Arsenal’s elimination from the FA Cup, they might take out their frustration on Manchester City when they face them on April 19, if the schedule doesn’t change.
The Champions League might be a tough challenge for Arsenal, but Arteta will prioritize the Premier League if they can.

If Arsenal meets Manchester City this season 4 times, Manchester City is going to beat them for the whole 4 times. Arteta has not learnt how to beat his boss. That's the simple truth.

This is not true exactly as you say it, we have seen Arsenal win Manchester City very well (5-1) and held them to a draw game in their last Premier League meeting, it is not like Manchester City always dominate the fixtures when they meet. In that EFL cup final which I am sure is where this your assumption is coming from, the mistakes were made by Kepa and everyone knows it. If Manchester City choose to underrate Arsenal when they meet in the Premier League because they defeated them in the EFL cup final, and because of their recent poor form , they will loose the game.

[JeffBrad12]

West Ham is having a grueling season. However, their recent resurgence has recharged their batteries. Moreover, focusing on the cup with a sense of history and setting their sights on Wembley is exactly the scenario everyone expected. Leeds, on the other hand, has a strong away record and makes good use of counterattacks. On paper, this is a closely matched game. However, it will be a physical contest, and the home advantage will be significant. Both teams could score. However, I expect West Ham to win and advance to the next round.

Westham 2.65
Leeds 2.60

As per the odds this game is very hard to predict. Westham might get edge due to the home game, but i think it doesn't mean a lot since both of clubs are equal. The moneyline is reflecting it. This is why i think Westham is only slightly favored, but they also lost to the leeds in the last game.
If i have to choose, i think i will go for leeds to win. You know Westham is in bad position at EPL. So they may be using a cup team instead of going full strength. It's kinda different with Leeds who may have spirit to win before they go to the Old Trafford to face MU. Winning the game against Westham may boost Leeds mentality before a game next weeks.

[Alphie12]

Liverpool suffered a heavy defeat, as did Arsenal. It was a truly unfortunate day to start the season after the international break.

I didn’t understand how Manchester City was able to make such quick and easy work on Liverpool. I was expecting a very difficult performance in this one but, Manchester City saw how they could miss the chance on lifting yet another trophy and didn’t want to give anything out to Liverpool. Pep is surely looking to bag yet another trophy to shade the team’s performance this season.

They have to prepare for the Champions League in the coming days, and after a result like this, the prospect of defeat looms large for Arsenal. It's no wonder images like this are circulating on social media.

https://x.com/TrollFootball/status/2040538691580657833

Arsenal haven’t got any excuse for this performance. They might have a champions league game up ahead but, so does Bayern Munich and PSG yet, they are find ways to win in their local league. Arteta just isn’t ready to lift a trophy.

Arsenal is a disgrace of a club, how can Arsenal be loosing to Southampton, Arsenal have made a mockery of themselves, well I’m not surprised because Arsenal isn’t a good team, and they’re not playing well at all, Southampton seems like a team that was ready to fight against Arsenal, people where saying that Arsenal was going to win a Quadruple, well at this point only two competitions is left and that is what is happening with at the end of the season and its always like a tradition for them to misbehave when the season is going to come to an end, i wouldn’t be surprised if Arsenal end up trophyless this season, because everything is absolutely possible in the Premier League and Football.

from quadruple to treblle to double to trouble
I’m not surprised by the Arsenal loss to Southampton, remember most of this Arsenal players were been withdrawn from their international duties last week with their national team side citing injury concerns so it’s obvious that even though some of these players featured in this game there’s a possibility they are not fit enough to play the game, and moreover if you look at Southampton and Arsenal players combined in this match majority of the Arsenal players have a very busy 2 week’s traveling to their various national team games for international matches meanwhile I don’t think any of this Southampton players were that busy playing for international duties and they looked fresh all weeks only training and preparing for this match against Arsenal. The loss which looks more embarrassing and disgraceful to me is the loss Of Liverpool against Manchester city. Liverpool lost 4:0 against Manchester city even without Pep Guardiola on the touch line as a coach of man city, he have to watch from the stand as he’s been suspended for that very game but still Manchester city managed to beat Liverpool 4:0. That’s quite embarrassing considering how much Liverpool have spent this season and they won’t say that there players were having a busy weekend because obviously even the Manchester city players all were on international duties too.

[Danica22]

If Arsenal meets Manchester City this season 4 times, Manchester City is going to beat them for the whole 4 times. Arteta has not learnt how to beat his boss. That's the simple truth.

Manchester city is quite strong this season. But their  biggest weakness is that they are not able to maintain consistency. And that is why  they are not able to occupy the top position of the table. Manchester city has performed well in every match against Arsenal this season. Whatever, manchester city has the highest chance of winning the FA cup. Liverpool and arsenal, one of the two main rivals for  the title, have been eliminated in the quarter-finals.

[Akbarkoe]

I actually think West Ham will win today, I think their form has improved a lot from the early parts of the season. Leeds are a proper battling team but I just feel that West Ham with home advantage will have the edge.

What I do hope is that Man City and Chelsea face each other in the semi finals so it means either Southampton or the winner of the match today make the final.

The team that plays at home always has the best advantage like Southampton beat Arsenal but that cannot always be a guarantee that it will bring victory, Leeds is quite strong and not much different from West Ham in the English premier league, in terms of performance this season the two teams do not have a significant difference, the greater probability can be to West Ham should be.

We will wait to see whether they will meet or not in the semi-finals later.

[$weetne$$]

Manchester city is quite strong this season. But their  biggest weakness is that they are not able to maintain consistency. And that is why  they are not able to occupy the top position of the table. Manchester city has performed well in every match against Arsenal this season. Whatever, manchester city has the highest chance of winning the FA cup. Liverpool and arsenal, one of the two main rivals for  the title, have been eliminated in the quarter-finals.

I do not think we would call them strong but they are showing priority strength, they seem to be identifying important games and placing priorities on them and so their performance on those games are very different from other games they probably do not prioritise, so this too does looks like inconsistency.  These are my taughts on the performance of Manchester City recently.

[Frankolala]

If Arsenal meets Manchester City this season 4 times, Manchester City is going to beat them for the whole 4 times. Arteta has not learnt how to beat his boss. That's the simple truth.

Manchester city is quite strong this season. But their  biggest weakness is that they are not able to maintain consistency. And that is why  they are not able to occupy the top position of the table. Manchester city has performed well in every match against Arsenal this season. Whatever, manchester city has the highest chance of winning the FA cup. Liverpool and arsenal, one of the two main rivals for  the title, have been eliminated in the quarter-finals.

I feel this is another big opportunity for Chelsea to win the FA Cup because I see that they will be in the finals with City. However, Manchester City is looking stronger than Chelsea which means that the chances of them winning this competition is higher. I didn't expect Arsenal to fall out from the competition so early.

[Marykeller]

Liverpool suffered a heavy defeat, as did Arsenal. It was a truly unfortunate day to start the season after the international break. They have to prepare for the Champions League in the coming days, and after a result like this, the prospect of defeat looms large for Arsenal. It's no wonder images like this are circulating on social media.

https://x.com/TrollFootball/status/2040538691580657833

From 2 to go, what again to go? 1. Arsenal will never cease to surprise us. Each season they leave us with results that would make us less supportive of Arsenal.

Look at the way they moved from the imagination of them lifting a quadruple trophy to a treble trophy, from a treble trophy, now we have them at a double(2) trophy. How sure are we that, they're gonna lift a double trophy? Well, I think Arsenal will have a trophy this season, that will be only the Premier League

[knowngunman]

Arsenal I don’t know why, but having hope in Arsenal is something disgraceful. What will Arsenal say? Nothing. Although they want to prove themselves, they are still seen as trophyless. So now, let’s just wait and see. Last last, they might end up only with the Premier League trophy, and that is if they put more effort into their performance. If not, even that, they might end up losing it to Manchester City.

For Arsenal to lose the Premier League again this season to Manchester city simply means their life have spoil completely. If there is ever a perfect time for Arsenal to win the league, then it's this season and if they throw it away as usual, I don't think they'll ever win it again. Manchester city is not that strong like before and I don't see them winning the whole of their remaining games. But to some extent, they might still give Arsenal a tough time since they are now focus on the EPL while Arsenal is still going for both. Even though football is not something we can speculate on, Arsenal still stands as the favourite team to win the EPL. They just need to win the rest of their games and avoid even draws.

[Adiljutt156]

Honestly speaking, without seeing the match, you will feel it is a fluke but Southampton are really showing what it means to be in form, Arsenal keeps playing this stupid style of play with no creativity. Southampton are clearly the stronger team this first half and maybe Arsenal will turn it around the second half.

Indeed football is an unpredictable game, imagine arsenal losing to Southampton in the quarter is really something we should glamour about because since the starting of the season arsenal where considered one of the most consistent team in the world but losing to Southampton after losing to Manchester City in the final is what i can't believe if I was told. From the first half arsenal where so lazy that creating chances was very difficult for them not until they conceded a goal from Southampton,  but with this i think arsenal has fallen and maintaining the premier league top spot will be very difficult for them.

Southampton football team played very well against Arsenal football team in the last match because they did 2 goals in this match which were important to win this match and Stewart was a person who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 35 minutes of the match and he gave good start to his team. Gyökeres was a person who did second goal of the match and he did this goal at 68 minutes of the match and that was important goal. Charles was a person who did last goal of the match and he did this goal at 85 minutes of the match and that was a goal which gave decision of winner and loser of this match because before that goal both teams were at same level and both teams have to do 1 more goal to win this match. Arsenal team should try to be dominant in the first half but they could not do any goal in the first half and in the second half they did only 1 goal.

[jakdanyel]

The surprise of the day was definitely Arsenal's elimination from FA Cup by 2-1 against Southampton!



I'm just wondering how they can be this bad.    I mean I know they had many names injured. In addition to that there was some extra rotation by Arteta as well.

But even in that situation they should have been able to beat a Championship team. Congrats to Southampton despite not having a great season!

[Lida93]

But in the fixture between westham United and Leeds United, there seems to be a lot of drama, Leeds United had a two goals lead till the third minutes of the added time when West ham pulled one back and scored the equaliser few minutes later to take the game to extra time, right now they are leveled with a scoreline of 2:2, with Westham having a goal ruled out for offside, that goal should have put them ahead, indeed this is an incredible comeback for the hammers.