Right, that’s us for tonight. Thanks for your company and comments – join us again tomorrow for the remainder of round two. Nighty night.
And Aaron Bower was at the John Smith’s.
Richard Jolly was at Elland Road...
Looking ahead to tomorrow night, West Brom v Arsenal should be a belter. The Baggies have three wins and a draw from their four games so far this season, and another defeat for the Gunners will leave them in all sorts – with no European football, they could really use a cup run to give them something to do. So Mikel Arteta has a decision to make: does he go full strength, play his kids and fringe players, or mix up the two?
So that’s all of our matches over – three more tomorrow night, then the draw for round three.
Full-time: Nottingham Forest 0-4 Wolves
Wolves look a decent side, and much more fun to watch than under Nuno. Forest have problems.
Wycombe beat Stevenage 5-3 on penalties!
They were 2-2 after 90.
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Here’s our report from the Cardiff City Stadium:
Benfica and and Young Boys have disposed of PSV and Ferencvaros to reach the Champions League group stages.
In other news:
Cheltenham beat Gillingham 5-4 on penalties!
As per the below, they finished 1-1 after 90 minutes.
“Your original was for continuous built-up areas,” says Chris Latimer. “So Birmingham included Wolves, Walsall and Dudley, while Manchester included Bolton, Rochdale, Salford, Ashton etc. Birmingham, which has its thumb on the scale by including Sutton Coldfield in its city boundary, is twice the size of Manchester.”
Full-time scores:
Northern section
Oldham Athletic 0-0 Accrington Stanley (Oldham win 5-4 on penalties)
Barrow 0-6 Aston Villa
Blackpool 2-3 Sunderland
Huddersfield Town 1-2 Everton
Leeds United 3-0 Crewe Alexandra
Morecambe 2-4 Preston North End
Sheffield United 1-2 Derby County
Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Rochdale
Stoke City 2-0 Doncaster Rovers
Wigan Athletic 0-0 Bolton Wanderers (Wigan win 5-4 on penalties)
Nottingham Forest 0-4 Wolverhampton Wanderers (after 88)
Norwich City 6-0 AFC Bournemouth
Swansea City 4-1 Plymouth Argyle (after 72)
Birmingham City 0-2 Fulham
Southern section
Brentford 3-1 Forest Green Rovers
Cardiff City 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Gillingham 1-1 Cheltenham Town (penalties in progress)
Millwall 3-1 Cambridge United
Northampton Town 0-1 AFC Wimbledon
Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Oxford United
Stevenage 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers (penalties in progress)
Watford 1-0 Crystal Palace
Penalties are being taken in three games:
Gillingham 1-1 Cheltenham Town
Stevenage 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers
Wigan Athletic 0-0 Bolton Wanderers
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GOAL! Nottingham Forest 0-3 Wolves (Trincao 86)
Wolves have been good tonight, especially in the second half, but Forest are abject.
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GOAL! Northampton 0-1 AFC Wimbledon (Hartigan 90+4)
A blockbuster (apparently) wins it at the death!
Full-time: Watford 1-0 Crystal Palace
Gosh, that’s a third game without a goal for Vieira’s boys, and he made fewer changes than Xisco. I wonder what Frank de Boer makes of things.
“Greater Manchester (the area encompassing the city of Manchester plus Oldham, Bury, Bolton etc) is bigger than Birmingham,” emails Will Horwood, “but the city of Manchester is about half the size of Birmingham. However, the West Midlands conurbation (the area encompassing the city of Birmingham plus Dudley, Wolverhampton, Coventry etc) is bigger than Greater Manchester. Glad to be of help (and Norwich winning 6-0 has put me in a sufficiently good mood to cope with the inevitable insults resulting from this supreme piece of demographic nerdery!)”
Excellent, thanks a lot.
GOAL! Sheffield United 2-1 Derby (Sharp 76)
Blades have turned it around!
GOAL! Leeds 3-0 Crewe (Harrison 90)
Bamford has made all the difference, and he’s involved again as Harrison finishes well from inside the box.
GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Forest Green (Forss 86)
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. Forss lofts home from close range following a corner.
GOALS! Blackpool 2-3 Sunderland (Bowler 87, O'Brien 90+1)
First, Bowler draws Blackpool level, then O’Brien completes his hat-trick and Sunderland are set for round three!
GOAL! Barrow 0-6 Aston Villa (Archer 88)
It’s a hat-trick, a finish swept into the corner! What a night for the 19-year-old!
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GOAL! Leeds 2-0 Crewe (Harrison)
Bamford, who’s made a big difference since coming on, goes down the right and when the ball ends up with Harrison, he dinks a beautiful finish over the diving keeper.
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GOAL! Watford 1-0 Crystal Palace (Fletcher 86)
Watford have been the better side in the second half, and a cross to the back post sees Fletcher extend a leg to divert the ball into the net.
RED CARD! Forest Green's Adams is sent off!
He and a Brentford player – I’m not sure which – contested a 50/50, both of them tackling hard with two feet. But it was Adams whose tackle looked worse and though he did not damage, he easily coujld’ve done.
GOAL! Morecambe 2-4 Preston (Van den Berg 79)
Just when Morecambe thought they were in, they’ve been pushed back out.
GOAL! Leeds 1-0 Crewe (Phillips 79)
Harrison crosses and Phillips tucks home fro near the penalty spot.
GOAL! Brentford 2-1 Forest Green (Mbuemo 75)
A cross from the left skips off the turf, and Mbuemo does really well to get over a high-bouncing ball, forcing home a header on the run. For most of the evening, Brentford have looked like being the high-profile casualty, but they should see it out from here.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Everton (Townsend 79)
Townsend does really well to get across his man at the front post, bashing home Gomes’ cross from close range. Rafael Benitez will have wondered, but he looks to be ok.
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GOAL! Stevenage 2-1 Wycombe (Reid 77)
Another come-from-behinder at the Lamex. Can Wycombe respond?
GOAL! Shrewsbury 0-2 Rochdale (Cashman)
This has finished quickly, but with Shrewsbury down to 10, we can probably put this in our file marked “done”.
“I think you’ll find Manchester is not bigger than Brum,” tweets David Ellin. “+1million people vs 500k tells you that.”
I guess it depends how and what we’re measuring – perhaps the link below is Birmingham v Greater Manchester, I’m not sure.
GOAL! Barrow 0-5 Aston Villa (Guilbert 75)
Philogene-Bidace thinks he’s going to score again, but misses his one-on-one, and is still holding his head as the ball breaks to his mate, who smashes past Steer. Villa’s youngsters are an exciting bunch.
Ah, excellent, here’s JR with the skinny on the Kean red card: “Sorba Thomas was angry because minutes earlier Tom Davies kinda threw a very late, sneaky little shoulder at him which failed to connect. Then Thomas fouled Kean with a little late shove after the ball was long gone. The ref saw it but played advantage. That was apparently not acceptable to M. Kean so he chased down Thomas and bodychecked him. Thomas put his face right up in Kean’s grille and Kean looked like he pushed Thomas in the face. Thomas could have been sent packing as well.
What this game needs is the introduction of Yerry Mina. He would be sure to tip this game into a right battle royal. He’s a real troublemaker.”
We can but hope.
GOALS! Nottingham Forest 0-2 Wolves (Saiss 59, Podence 60)
It never rains. More misery for Forest as Saiss pokes home following a corner, then Podence drills past Horwatch from inside the box. After two and half games without, Wolves have scored two in two to get the Bruno Lage era underway.
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WHAT A GOAL! Morecambe 2-3 Preston 3 (Ledson)
Oh I say! After Morecambe force their way from 2-2, Ledson absolutely clatters a drive from 20 yards that hisses into the top corner.
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Forest Green (Wissa 60)
Seconds after Forest Green hit the post, Brentford counter, and Wissa, an £8m summer signing, does really well to wriggle the space for a shot, which he then scuffs home from 12 yards.
RED CARD AND GOAL! Shrewsbury 0-1 Rochdale (Beesley pen 68)
Pennington, I assume gave away the penalty, and then had to watch as Beesley saw it away.
Full-time score
Swansea 4-1 Plymouth
“Rob Dickie hasn’t scored three goals this season,” chides Adam Cain. “He’s scored two in the league and two in the cup. Check out the Milwall one:
Woof! And fear not – beats will be distributed to the offending party.
GOAL! Morecambe 2-2 Preston (Stockton)
Morecambe return from two goals down and this is a fie way to do it, Stockton dragging a pass into his stride from behind him and lashing a low finish into the far corner.
GOAL! Barrow 0-4 Aston Villa (Archer 62)
What a night this is for Villa’s youngsters!
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Oldham beat Accrington Stanley 5-4 on penalties!
““Manchester is bigger than Birmingham’”, says Justin Jones, quoting me back at myself. “Clearly you didn’t do geography at school. Brum has literally twice the population. In fact Manchester is smaller than Leeds and Sheffield.”
You’re right that I didn’t do much geography, though I’m not sure the relative sizes of urban conurbations was on the syllabus. So I made it up. Not really, I looked here. It might be wrong – apologies if so – but my lack of geographical education is not the reason why.
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DISALLOWED GOAL FOR HUDDERSFIELD THEN A RED CARD FOR KEAN!
At Huddersfield, the home side have had a goal disallowed following a header from a corner – someone was marginally offside – then shortly afterwards, a scuffle in centrefield saw Kean go head to head with someone before being sent off for what looked like a minor shove. Can the Terriers capitalise?
GOAL! Cardiff 0-2 Brighton (Zeqiri 55)
Played in in the centre of the box, Zeqiri confidently opens his body to place a finish into the corner.
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GOAL! Blackpool 1-2 Sunderland (O'Brien 57)
A corner flies beyond the back post and O’Brien drills goalwards, a deflection making sure the ball gives him his second of the night.
GOAL! Sheffield United 1-1 Derby (Freeman 53)
Freeman arrives into the box at the same time as a fine right-wing cross, banging home a header without needing to jump.
GOAL! Millwall 3-1 Cambridge (Smith 54)
Ordinary set-piece defending allows Smith to fall, retrieve the ball from under him, and slot home.
Everyone is reporting that Real Madrid have offered PSG £137m for Kylian Mbappe, and the player wants the move.
GOAL! Stevenage 1-1 Wycombe (List 50)
All square in the outskirts of London derby.
GOAL! Stoke 2-0 Doncaster (Surridge 48)
The ball comes in from the left and Surridge in far too much space, takes down and finishes easily enough.
Full-time score:
Oldham 0-0 Accrington
Penalties will now be taken.
This is a clever finish, Laird cutting back for Whittaker who beat his man then poked an early shot into the far corner with outside of his right big toe, futsal-style.
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GOAL! Swansea 4-1 Plymouth (Whittaker 90)
It’s an 11-minute hat-trick! Wow!
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Full-time score:
Norwich 6-0 Bournemouth
We’re back underway in our 7.45 kick-offs.
Ah, that’s a very nice goal, Jamal Lowe driving down the left, then looking up and squaring for Whittaker to bang home a sidefooter without breaking stride.
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GOAL! Swansea 3-1 Plymouth (Whittaker 86)
It’s all over at the Vetch Liberty now, Whittaker scoring his second in seven minutes.
A further half-time score:
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Wolves
“I see Wolves are in the Northern section and West Brom are in the Southern section,” notes JR in Illinois. “How do you like them apples? I guess we know where the dividing line is then. Here’s a curiosity: if you go to Google maps and zoom in to the point that you can just get the entirety of England on the screen, the city of Birmingham is not shown yet all kinds of other towns and cities are identified, from places like Truro, Peterborough and Warrington to Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle. Seems weird that the second-largest city in England isn’t identified until you zoom in so that you can only see the middle third of the country.”
It’s something of a curiosity that Birmingham is the “second city” and, I must confess, is something of which i was unaware until I was in my 20s, never mind the “second city derby”. As it goes, Manchester is bigger, and there’s some kind of line that says “Brummies think Birmingham is England’s second city and Mancs know that London is”.
NB this is patter not editorial opinion.
I should note, there’s no extra-time tonight. If scores are level after 90, the match will be settled by a ruck on penalties.
GOAL! Swansea 2-1 Plymouth (Whittaker 79)
Russell Martin has made attacking changes to force a result and here’s his reward!
The majority of the half-times
Northern section
Oldham Athletic 0-0 Accrington Stanley
Barrow 0-3 Aston Villa
Blackpool 1-1 Sunderland
Huddersfield Town 1-1 Everton
Leeds United 0-0 Crewe Alexandra
Morecambe 1-2 Preston North End
Sheffield United 0-1 Derby County
Shrewsbury Town 0-0 Rochdale
Stoke City 1-0 Doncaster Rovers
Wigan Athletic 0-0 Bolton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (after 37)
Norwich City 6-0 AFC Bournemouth (after 80)
Swansea City 1-1 Plymouth Argyle (after 72)
Birmingham City0-1v Fulham
Southern section
Brentford 0-1 Forest Green Rovers
Cardiff City 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Gillingham 1-1 Cheltenham Town
Millwall 2-1 Cambridge United
Northampton Town 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Oxford United
Stevenage 0-1 Wycombe Wanderers
Watford 0-0 Crystal Palace
GOAL! Morecambe 1-2 Preston (O'Connor 45+4)
A lifeline for the Shrimps, a free-kick down the right deflected home by what looked like a defender, but for now the goal belongs to O’Connor.
GOAL! Norwich 6-0 Bournemouth (Sargent 75)
Gilmour, on as sub, races into the box, squares, and Sargent slides in, scrambling the ball home from behind him and while horizontal.
GOAL! Barrow 0-3 Aston Villa (El Ghazi 45+2)
Guilbert goes down the right and crosses well, El Ghazi arriving at the far post to cushion a volley home. Not sure we’re getting our shock here.
GOAL! Sheffield United 0-1 Derby (Sibley 44)
McDonald goes down the right and cuts back a low cross that Baldes should clear, but when they don’t, Sibley – who looks a player - spanks home a low drive with minimum fuss and maximum prejudice.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Everton (Lees 45)
Huddersfield have been putting Everton under from set pieces, and Lees meets a corner with a solid header to score his first goal for the terriers.
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GOAL! QPR 2-0 Oxford (Chambers-Parillon own goal 40)
I’m not sure who shot, but it was someone, from out on the left, 20 yards or so from goal, and Chambers-Parillon’s attempted block took the ball past Eastwood.
GOALS! Millwall 2-1 Cambridge (Wallace 39, 42)
Millwall have turned it around! The first goal is very nice, Wallace cutting in off the left and curling a fine finish into the far corner, before forcing home from close range following a corner and a scramble.
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GOAL! Stoke 1-0 Doncaster (Ince 41)
Fox bursts forward from centre-back, scuffs a shot that the keeper palms out, and Ince taps home.
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GOAL! Swansea 1-1 Plymouth (Shirley 63)
Plymouth have improved after half-time and Randall crosses brilliantly from the right, picking out Shirley at the back post, and he punches a volley home.
GOAL! Norwich 5-0 Bournemouth (Tzolis 66)
Gosh, this could get very silly. Sargent nashes down the right, cuts back, and Tzolis slides into a very competent finish, his second of the night.
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At Vicarage Road, Palace are dominating Watford, but it’s still 0-0. However at Brentford, the shock is still on, Forest Green not only leading but having the better of the play.
GOAL! Morecambe 0-2 Preston (Jakobsen 33)
This is very funny indeed. Jakobsen, who scored Preston’s first, goes through but the keeper smothers the ball ... but when he collides on the slide with his centre-back it squirms out, and Jakobsen taps home.
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GOAL! Millwall 0-1 Cambridge 1 (Williams 33)
The team from League 1 lead! A free-kick swings out, and in line with the near post, Williams glances a fine header home.
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Back to Rob Dickie, a mate sat in the Loft tells me that’s his third goal of the season and he’s a centre-back.
In the EFL Cup, Anthony Scully has completed his hat-trick, and Lincoln now lead Man United u21 3-0.
GOAL! Birmingham 0-1 Fulham (Stansfield 26)
I didn’t see this one, but Fulham have won three and drawn one of their league games and I’d expect them to come straight back up.
OHHH WHAT A GOAL! QPR 1-0 Oxford (Dickie 26)
Dickie, who scored at the weekend I think, picks the ball up inside his own half, exchanges passes with I’m afraid I don’t know who, advances, and splatters a right-footed drive that screeches into the far side-netting, seven-eighths of the way up.
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GOAL! Gillingham 1-1 Cheltenham (May 24)
All square again at Priestfield.
GOAL! Huddersfield 0-1 Everton (Iwobi 26)
Davies drives forward through the heart of Huddersfield and slides a ball into the path of Iwobi, who slides home adroitly and celebrates with some interpretative dance.
GOAL! Stevenage 0-1 Wycombe (Akinfenwa 23)
There he is!
GOAL! Barrow 0-2 Aston Villa (El Ghazi pen 24)
The keeper dives right and a tiny little dink down the middle does the job.
At Barrow, Philogene-Bidace has been tripped in the box...
GOAL! Norwich 4-0 Bournemouth (Sargent 49)
This is terrific from the Canaries, whose young players are surely pushing for a weekend start. This time, they move it from right to left and Sargent arrives on time to poke home.
GOAL! Gillingham 1-0 Cheltenham (Olivier 20)
We didn’t get to see this one, but it remains so.
Nice from Palace, building down the right, Gallagher dinking a luscious cross to the back post where Mateta looks certain to score, but someone – Ngakia I think – gets up brilliantly to deflect his header over the bat.
At Bramall Lane Derby are starting to threaten, Stretton driving just wide from 20 yards.
Sky are showing the goals as they go in. This is improving my quality of life.
GOALS! Blackpool 1-1 Sunderland (Lavery 9, O'Brien 12)
First, Lavery jabs home a low cross, then Sunderland fashion their first attack and O’Brien, sent through one on one, slots home nicely.
GOAL! Barrow 0-1 Aston Villa (Archer 10)
And there he is! El Ghazi goes down the left, crosses low, and Archer arrives to punch home. He becomes Villa’s second-youngest scorer under Dean Smith.
GOAL! Cardiff 0-1 Brighton (Moder 9)
Phew! Moder goes through and slots home nicely.
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GOAL! Brentford 0-1 Forest Green (Aitchison 8)
Forest Green, wearing Stabilo Boss green, took advantage of uncertainty in the much-changed Brentford defence and Aitchison drilled home after an initial shot was blocked.
GOAL! Morecambe 1-0 Preston (Jakobsen)
The ball breaks kindly for Jakobsen, who goes through, draws the keeper and rolls into the far corner. Matt Murray is at this game for Sky, a name I recall from his time at Wolves when he struck up a touching friendship with Bert Williams, Wolves and England keeper of the 40s and 50s.
Another half-time score:
Swansea 1-0 Plymouth
Absolute sake. At Blackpool v Sunderland, various absolutely top, top people in the crowd have booed the taking of the knee. All black lives matter, people.
Moise Kean has already missed two great chances for Everton at Huddersfield. It could be worse, he could be a burglar.
Some half-time scores:
Norwich 3-0 Bournemouth
Oldham 0-0 Accrington Stanley
We’re away in our 7.45 kick-offs – that’s all the remaining games, save Forest v Wolves.
As for Barrow, they returned to the Football League this season having been away since 1972. It’s weird to think that, in those days, the teams who finished in the bottom division’s relegation zone had to apply for re-election, and the other clubs could vote to retain them or replace them with any new applicants from the non-league pyramid.
Taking a closer look at Villa’s team, I can’t wait to see Carney Chukwuemeka, who’s meant to be a serious talent – his brother Caleb is on the bench. And Jaden Philogene-Bidace and Cameron Archer, also exciting youngsters, also start.
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“Sure, Moise Kean can score goals in the Champions League,” says Matt Burtz, “but can he do it on a (checks ESPN Plus feed) cloudy, dry Tuesday night in Yorkshire?”
Only if he can rely on Duncan Ferguson’s inspirational touchline leadership.
GOAL! Norwich 3-0 Bournemouth (Rupp)
This is a lovely finish, the ball again moving from left to centre before Rupp opens his body to clip and early finish inside the near post before Nyland has even thought about moving.
More EFL Cup action: Bolton has put Man City’s u21s 2-0 up at Scunthorpe, while Scully has scored his second to give Lincoln a 2-0 lead over Man United.
GOAL! Swansea 1-0 Plymouth (Williams 29)
Williams shoots from the edge and there’s a slight deflection, but though a near-post finish isn’t automatically the keeper’s fault, Burton should’ve stopped that.
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“How can there be 50 clubs in the Carabao Cup?” wonders Django Ctclebrazil. “That means there will be 25 winners for the next round. The number of clubs has to be a power of two, surely?”
As per below, the seven teams in European competition join in at that point.
GOAL! Norwich City 2-0 AFC Bournemouth (McLean 26)
Norwich are purring, Williams marauding down the left and transferring the ball infield for McLean to clatter home low from 20 yards.
Anthony Scully has put Lincoln ahead against Man United u21.
I didn’t see Wolves at the weekend but apparently they played pretty well despite losing at home to Spurs. And Bruno Lage has picked a strong team tonight – Forest are in trouble.
At the City Ground, Chris Hughton is under pressure after four defeats from four and with the derby against Derby coming up at the weekend. These are the teams for tonight’s game against Wolves, Forest able to call upon Jimmy Garner who’s back on loan from Man United.
📋 Team news
— Nottingham Forest FC ❤️ (@NFFC) August 24, 2021
The Reds side to face Wolves in the @Carabao_Cup this evening 👊
🌳🔴 #NFFC pic.twitter.com/zzCKm30Twj
Our team to face @NFFC in tonight's @Carabao_Cup clash. #NOTWOL
— Wolves (@Wolves) August 24, 2021
🐺📋 pic.twitter.com/fvsYBn5S16
Reading for you:
Action at Oldham, where the match has been halted after three minutes because the fans are chucking tennis balls onto the pitch in protest at the club’s ownership. They’re drawing 0-0 with Accrington, but there are things about football that are more important than football.
Housekeeping, per Wikipedia: “A total of 50 clubs play in the second round: the 35 winners from the first round, the 2 clubs from the Championship (tier 2) who did not enter in the first round, plus the 13 Premier League clubs who are not in European competition. The draw for this round was split on a geographical basis into ‘northern’ and ‘southern’ sections. Teams were drawn against a team from the same section.”
GOAL! Norwich 1-0 Bournemouth (Tzolis 12)
Daniel Farke reckons his young Greek winger can be one of the best in the world and he takes this goal nicely, running in behind, controlling nicely, and smacking a left-footed finish into the far corner.
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I’m surprised Rafael Benitez has made so many changes – seven – from the team that drew at Leeds on Saturday. Obviously he’ll think the XI he’s picked can win the game, but he needs a good start to get the crowd on his side and a mess tonight will be a problem for him.
Kris Boyd is on Sky Sports News, and he’s wearing a peppermint green blazer with blue checks, on top of a polo short. It’s something.
The group stages of the EFL also get going tonight, and Man City’s under-21s have gone in front at Scunthorpe after six minutes, Cole Palmer with the goal. What an absolute shambles this affair is.
Here are the teams for that first match – Brandon Williams, newly loaned from Man United, makes his debut.
🚨 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 🚨
— Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) August 24, 2021
Debuts for Brandon Williams and Christos Tzolis in tonight's cup tie! pic.twitter.com/nJi6SpVHk6
📝 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 📝
— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) August 24, 2021
🔺 Rogers in from the off
🔺 Camp makes full debut
🔺 Nyland starts in goal
🔺 Cook back and captain
Here's how we line up for this evening's @Carabao_Cup game at Carrow Road. #afcb 🍒
We’re underway at Carrow Road, where Norwich are taking on Bournemouth, while Swansea and Plymouth are also getting ready to go.
As you’ll see from the below, most of the teams that reckon themselves are playing weakened teams though Palace are trying to win. And I said earlier that I was looking forward to seeing how Ravel Morrison does, so of course he’s on the bench. I watched him play for Man United’s youth team with Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard, and make no mistake, he was in a different league to both.
Sky’s vidiprinter still has last night’s goals on it. I’m calling the cops.
Let's have some – and I mean some – of tonight's teams...
Barrow v Aston Vila
#BarrowAFC pic.twitter.com/sjpUuOm84a
— Barrow AFC (@BarrowAFC) August 24, 2021
This is how we line up to face Barrow in the #CarabaoCup. 🟣 pic.twitter.com/n6n8kZnmDo
— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) August 24, 2021
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Huddersfield Town v Everton
🚨 TEAM NEWS 🚨
— Huddersfield Town (@htafc) August 24, 2021
Head Coach Carlos Corberán has handed @SinaniDanel his first #htafc start in tonight's @Carabao_Cup game against Everton!@Harry_Toffolo, @AlexVallejo6, @DuaneHolmes, @FraizerCampbell & Tom Lees all start too 👇 pic.twitter.com/yBpmQ4piEN
Tonight's Toffees to face @htafc! 👊
— Everton (@Everton) August 24, 2021
9️⃣ changes from our last game
🇨🇮 Gbamin's first start in 738 days
COYB! 🔵 #CarabaoCup pic.twitter.com/gJYKjYrdcs
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Leeds United v Crewe Alexandra
📋 Marcelo names a strong Starting XI for tonight's Carabao Cup clash pic.twitter.com/0jwNvlubmB
— Leeds United (@LUFC) August 24, 2021
⚫️ 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 🟡
— Crewe Alexandra (@crewealexfc) August 24, 2021
Your #CreweAlex starting XI to face Leeds this evening 👊 pic.twitter.com/W17VQEQEUd
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Sheffield United v Derby County
Jebbison leads the line. 💪
— Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) August 24, 2021
Your Blades starting XI for tonight’s Carabao Cup tie against Derby. 👇 pic.twitter.com/YDX9ZBj4ZU
Here's tonight's team! 🐏
— Derby County (@dcfcofficial) August 24, 2021
Craig Forsyth captains the side, while Kornell McDonald makes his first appearance of the season.
Under 18s forward Marko Borkovic is named among the substitutes.#DCFC pic.twitter.com/tI7jL85tOr
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Watford v Crystal Palaace
🚨 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 🚨
— Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) August 24, 2021
Here's how the Hornets line up for tonight's @Carabao_Cup clash with Crystal Palace.#WATCRY | @Stake pic.twitter.com/QMcqSdEzRt
COME ON YOU PALACE #CPFC | #CarabaoCup
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) August 24, 2021
Completing the, er, round of 50, we’ve got three further matches tomorrow:
Newcastle United v Burnley
Newport County v Southampton
West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal
Preamble
Mrs Mo-ore! Oh don’t you pay any more Mrs Moore! Mrs Moore, please don’t play any more! Depending on how old you are, you may or may not have the slightest clue what I’m going on about here, but either way, the League Milk Littlewood s Rumbelows Coca-Cola Worthington Carling Capital One EFL League Cup is back, with a panoply of ties for our delectation.
We’ll be majoring on Barrow v Villa, which is the biggest potential story, but there are others too: Everton visit Huddersfield and Watford are at Palace, while Forest v Wolves is an English football classic and I’m also buzzing to see how Ravel Morrison gets on for Derby at Sheffield United, another venerable match-up. Here are our fixtures in full:
Northern section
Oldham Athletic v Accrington Stanley
Barrow v Aston Villa
Blackpool v Sunderland
Huddersfield Town v Everton
Leeds United v Crewe Alexandra
Morecambe v Preston North End
Sheffield United v Derby County
Shrewsbury Town v Rochdale
Stoke City v Doncaster Rovers
Wigan Athletic v Bolton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Norwich City v AFC Bournemouth
Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle
Birmingham City v Fulham
Southern section
Brentford v Forest Green Rovers
Cardiff City v Brighton & Hove Albion
Gillingham v Cheltenham Town
Millwall v Cambridge United
Northampton Town v AFC Wimbledon
Queens Park Rangers v Oxford United
Stevenage v Wycombe Wanderers
Watford v Crystal Palace
Quite how we’re going to follow all of these remains to be seen, but I’ll be channeling my inner Georgie, Kammy and Merse to make sure you don’t miss a single “Unbelievable Jeff”. And it’s live!
Kick-offs: 7.45pm BST
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