FA Cup Round-Up (Prem Teams)

yes and it's all because all of the players are buying into the system that David Moyes puts forth. He is a genius, and it has shown this season.

ok so Burnley is about to knock west brom out of the FA Cup, one reason why i picked them as a surprise promotion bid out of the Championship. WOW!

That's not as good a story as tomorrow though. There will be 5 Prem teams playing for their FA Cup lives.

Villa at home to Doncaster
Blackburn home to Sunderland
Liverpool home to Everton

Picks anybody?

Well i guess I'll get it started and i'll pick goal scorers, assuming they play.

Villa (Heskey)
Sunderland (Jones)
Everton (Arteta)

Does anybody want to argue otherwise?

o snap...i spoke too soon. west brom just scored so it's 2-1 burnley...but i still think burnley can hold out for the win.

Villa
Blackburn
Liverpool

Villa (Carew)
Blackburn (Roberts)
Liverpool (Torres)

Big John scoring for Villa? interesting pick. i'd really like to see that happen. he's a monster.

Hahahahahaha. Andy - why would we say Everton will win? Because they did!

Who just won? Everton? No they couldn't have beat Liverpool...o but they did!!! YEAH!!!!

It was only due to the unforseeable circumstance that was Gerrard coming off with an injury in the 16th minute. Simple.

Up the toffees!!! Well played everton, definately deserved the win tonight. Rovers through too, cmon Benni!!!

It's a team sport mr. pini. Everton played the best as a TEAM. As a result they won. You can't blame injuries on Liverpool's complete failure.

Ya good stuff for Rovers...i really thought Sunderland was going to win it once they scored so early.

j6pini wrote:It was only due to the unforseeable circumstance that was Gerrard coming off with an injury in the 16th minute. Simple.

Excuses won't put Liverpool back in the FA Cup. Evra, Rooney, Rio, Hargreaves, Scholes, Carrick, Ronaldo, Nani, Anderson, Ji-Sung, Brown, Neville, and van der Sar have all been hurt this year. That's no excuse.

Red card for 2 bad tackles didn't help either, Everton were best team on the night though by quite some way, Jagielka in particular was awesome, they say Torres wasn't 100% but Jagielka did a wonderful job of making Torres' life hard tonight

Yes Everton were better. ...because Gerrard wasn't playing. Forget about the word "excuse." If Gerrard were playing it would have been a totally different game. Liverpool had no presence in the midfield, even when it was 11 on 11. Brian, I agree that Man United have persevered thru injuries, which evidences my point that no player on the planet is more important to his team than Gerrard is to Liverpool. Yes, that implies a heavy dependency on one player, which is a weakness, but it is also the reason the game tipped heavily in Everton's favor. (I am talking about facts, not mind games.) And I also applaud Everton for a gutsy game as tight as their last two meetings.

ps. I hate Lucas Leiver.

O pini...you crack me up w/ ur rafa imitations!

i'm just so pumped that everton backed me up and li'l gosling found the back of the net!

If these injurys carry on, i have to say Villa are looking more and more like a 2nd/3rd place team!

I think they really do have the potential to finish 3rd, but I don't know about second. Believe though, i would LOVE for them to finish 2nd!

Well it looks like that time again. Time to jump start the FA Cup thread because the 5th round is only 2 days away. So here's what this weekend looks like, the bold teams are who i'm picking to win:

Saturday:
Swansea v. Fulham
Sheffield Utd v. Hull
West Ham v. Middlesbrough
Blackburn v. Coventry
Watford v. Chelsea

Sunday:
Everton v. Aston Villa
Derby v. Manchester Utd

Monday: (Round 4 Replay)
Arsenal v. Cardiff

Same for me except I'm taking Everton over Villa.

A solid choice...I'm just picking villa to pick a team...i really can't make a pick...i just love both of them too much haha!!

I would go with Villa, only just though, only other one i feel maybe a little shocker is Sheff Utd- Hull, i fancy the Blades

Yeh i'd go with Sheff Utd also maybe a shout out for Cov, blackburn could slip up here maybe.

Will be supporting derby this weekend though