Arsenal Looks To Retain Fa Cup To Salvage Season

By STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer, San Antonio Express-News: World
Thu, 05/28/2015 - 2:05am

With Champions League and Premier League titles still seemingly way beyond the team, Arsenal is again relying on an FA Cup triumph to salvage some silverware from its season. For the second straight year, Arsenal heads into the final of the world's oldest club competition as the big favorite against a team that has ended the season fighting against relegation from the Premier League. "Maybe last year, the expectation level was more demanding — the demand was absolute," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. An Arsenal win would give Wenger a sixth FA Cup winner's medal, a feat no manager has achieved since the Second World War. The team might have finished the Premier League on Sunday just one place above the relegation zone but Tim Sherwood has revitalized Villa since taking over as manager in February, when it was in the bottom three and on a 10-match winless run. While Olivier Giroud faded in the last two months of the season and is without a goal for Arsenal in eight games, Benteke was one of the Premier League's best players since March and scored 12 goals in 12 games. In a rare start up front, Theo Walcott scored a first-half hat trick in Arsenal's 4-1 win over West Bromwich Albion on the final day of the league season Sunday, putting forward his case for inclusion at Wembley. Danny Welbeck, another possible striker option for Arsenal, was ruled out of the game because of a knee injury.

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