Arsenal Women have been drawn to play away at West Ham in the 4th Round of the Women’s FA Cup. This is the stage where the Gunners enter the competition.
The tie will be played on Sunday, 26th January at Rush Green. Arsenal have won a record 14 FA Cups, but have not won the trophy since beating Chelsea 1-0 in the 2016 at Wembley.
Arsenal were knocked out of the FA Cup in the 5th round last season after a 3-0 defeat away at Chelsea. This year’s final will also be held at Wembley on Saturday, 9th May.
Arsenal were 4-2 victors when they last played at Rush Green a year ago.
I suppose the pecking order for silverware this season would leave the FA Cup down in third place. Personally, Dan C wonder winner in the 2016 final is the reason I took to following AWFC so the FA Cup remains dear to me. For old times sake I’ve just re-run the game and we really did give Chelski a shock that day. The line-up – Sari, Scotty, Mitch, Jo Henning, Casey Stoney, Vicky Losada, Kelly, Jordan, Dan C, Asisat Oshoala and Fara Williams with DvD, Dom Janssen (as was) and Leah coming off the bench. Significantly, Kelly’s last competitive game… Read more »
Lovely memories. I started getting interested in the year they won the quadruple. Been slowly building from there. Hope we can achieve the domestic treble this season. Not expecting the quadruple again, that would be greedy!
Why not? Just a feeling that it’s THIS year for this group. Our 2020 Invincibles????