Ok, that’s it now. There are a few more ties tomorrow, and the second round draw is on Thursday night. We’ll be seeing more of each other later in this tournament I’m sure. It’s certainly been as eventful, and occasionally as slapstick, as you’d expect from this stage. Goodnight, and thanks for reading!
(PS - an epic shoot-out at Glanford Park has just been won by Barnsley, 7-6!)
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Meanwhile, York have beaten Bradford 4-2 on penalties and Rochdale have beaten Coventry 5-3 on penalties.
Curtis Davies scores confidently for Hull; MATT CROOKS SKIES A RUGBY CONVERSION FOR ACCRINGTON AND HULL WIN 4-3!
NO! He sends the goalkeeper the wrong way....but drags it wide!
Gornell then converts for Accrington. 3-3, sudden death!
Jakupovic saves again and now Hull have the advantage at 3-2. David Meyler can win it...
Barnet have beaten Millwall 2-1. Shock!
So it’s 2-2 with two apiece to take. Akpom for Hull....
......scores coolly, 3-2.
Harry Maguire smashes it over the bar for Hull! 1-1!
Then Josh Windass – son of Hull legend Dean – scores for the hosts! 2-1 after two apiece.
Then Tom Huddlestone scores for Hull....and Jakupovic saves from Billy Kee! 2-2!
Mingoia for Accrington...just under the goalkeeper Jakupovic and in...1-1.
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Shall we watch the penalties at Accrington together? Luer scores Hull’s first, straight down the middle. 1-0!
Carlisle have made it nice and safe against Chesterfield – Kevin Osei makes it 3-1 there in stoppage time. And that’s full-time there now. Shock!
Reading may well have pinched it at Colchester, which is cruel on the home side. Chris Gunter in the 115th minute...
And Sevilla just came *so* close to levelling it at 5-5 in Tbilisi, but I think that’ll be that...and indeed it is. What a game that was!
Accrington v Hull goes to penalties too, after a 2-2 draw!
Rochdale v Coventry, which has finished 1-1, will also go to spot kicks. Spot kicks at Spotland.
York v Bradford will be resolved by penalties – 2-2 full-time.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 2-2 Hull (Gornell 115)
Well, well, well. Penalties loom at the Wham!
Oxford manager Michael Appleton after winning 4-0 at Brentford: “We knew we had to get off to a fast start and within 10 minutes the scoreline couldn’t have been better.”
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Barcelona have scored! It’s now 5-4 and it’s Pedro, in perhaps his final game for the club, who snaffles up a rebound after yet another Messi free kick! Five minutes to go in Tbilisi!
Goal at Carlisle! They now lead 2-1, Jabo Ibehre again, against a Chesterfield side that is down to 10 men. At this rate we now have four ties heading to shoot-outs...
Colchester and Reading are still goalless, in case you’re wondering why you’ve not heard a peep from there. Sounds tight there, with half-time in extra time approaching.
Hull have gone back in front at Accrington – a really good leap and header there from Greg Luer after a characteristically dangerous Elmohamady cross.
Simon McMahon gathers himself to continue: “Especially after their keeper tipped one onto the underside of the bar before they broke and scored with the last kick. Football, eh? Bloody hell.”
I hope your drinks cabinet is well stocked.
Joe Ludlam raises valid questions about both this MBM’s popularity and Sheffield Wednesday’s ability to count: “You did well to keep your money in your pocket, a deceptively high attendance of 14,000 at Hillsborough tonight. I’ll check my account when I get home and make sure I didn’t accidentally buy 5000 tickets instead of 5.”
I suspect Wednesday have won our little battle.
In 2009-10 Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley & Wigan were all PL clubs. Tonight they all lose in the first round of the League Cup.
— Richard Jolly (@RichJolly) August 11, 2015
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Goal! Accrington Stanley 1-1 Hull (Crooks 105)
Errr...WHAM! That was the noise Matt Crooks’ header made as it plonked into the net from an accurate right-wing cross.
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Barnet have taken the lead at Millwall in the 102nd minute! Andy Yiadom from point-blank range! This, too, would be a shock.
Full-time: Bolton 0-1 Burton
Ye gads, that’s seven Championships sides out, most of them losing at home.
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I have received a piece of correspondence from Simon McMahon beginning with “B” and ending in “S”. But I’m just glad he is still with us. That must have been a bit gutting.
There are several games in extra time now (including, incidentally, the European Super Cup, which is incredibly 4-4), so we’ll barrel on.
Full-time: Port Vale 1-0 Burnley
Bit late to that amid all the fun, but: shock! Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday, Brighton, Exeter (shock-ish!), Wolves, Bury, Peterborough and Rotherham have all won too.
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I’m hearing incredible rumours that Accrington’s ground is now called the Wham Stadium.
Goal! Bolton 0-1 Burton (Palmer 87)
Now Burton are at it! Ben Amos’ poor kick put Bolton under pressure but he couldn’t do a lot about the shot, seconds later, from Matthew Palmer that deflected and flew to the wrong side of him. Could this be six Championship sides heading out?
Full-time: Nottingham Forest 3-4 Walsall
Hull have scored just inside extra-time at Accrington, Chuba Akpom scoring. Meanwhile Ipswich and Birmingham have both won, as have Charlton and Hartlepool.
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Full-time: Luton 3-1 Bristol City
Shock!
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3-4 Walsall (Bradshaw pen 90+5)
Wow! Walsall were clinging on, absolutely clinging on.....but suddenly they went down the other end, won a penalty and Bradshaw converts it for his hat-trick with the last kick of the game!
Full-time: Blackburn 1-2 Shrewsbury
Another shock!
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Full-times: Brentford 0-4 Oxford; Huddersfield 1-2 Notts County
Shocks!
Goal! Dundee United 2-2 Dundee (McPake 90+4)
Oh, what drama there! McPake converts a rebound at the very, very end gives Dundee the draw amid raucous scenes at Tannadice! The home fans look devastated!
And Michail Antonio has made it 3-3 at Forest v Walsall! They’ve come back from 3-1 down! And MK Dons have scored another late one, meaning they lead Orient 2-1! Carl Baker at the end!
Accrington v Hull goes to extra time, it’s 0-0 there. St Johnstone drew with Notts County. Bradford have equalised at the death at York through James Hanson, 2-2! And Brighton have won at Southend in injury time, via Kazanga Lua Lua!
QPR have won 3-0 at Yeovil, and Sheffield United have won at Morecambe. But MK Dons have forced extra time against Orient – a Mathieu Baudry own goal makes it 1-1!
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Full-time: Northampton 3-0 Blackpool
First confirmed shock of the night.
And Bury have nicked it at the death in Wigan! Leon Clarke makes it 2-1!
Sheffield United appear to have stolen it late on at Morecambe – Neill Collins making it 1-0 at Morecambe.
Stevenage aren’t happy about that penalty incident....
That's just grand... @deano_parrett19 shoved over in the area and now it's a drop ball in the box?!
— StevenageFC Official (@StevenageFC) August 11, 2015
Gillingham have scored another at Plymouth! Jake Hessenthaler at the far post, 2-1 to the Gills!
Modou Sougou has put Mansfield to bed – 4-1 to Wednesday there.
Marcus Tudgay has equalised for Coventry at Rochdale. Emmanuel Dieseruvwe has equalised for Chesterfield at Carlisle. Bradley Dack has equalised for Gillingham at Plymouth. All of these are now 1-1 and extending the life of this blog.
Goal! Port Vale 1-0 Burnley (Moore 82)
Did it cross the line? Didn’t it? I think it did – Byron Moore converting from 10 yards and, while a defender got it out, it seemed to have just sneaked in. Another shock is on!
Meanwhile, Michail Antonio has given Forest hope with a stunning goal – 3-2 to Walsall.
Mini-shock for York on the cards now – the League Two side beating League One Bradford 2-1 thanks to James Berrett.
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Goal! Nottingham Forest 1-3 Walsall (Sawyers 79)
That should confirm the shock there! Sawyers with Walsall’s third from a rebound.
Goal! Dundee United 2-1 Dundee (Stewart 82)
Greg Stewart has made it very interesting with a fine curler...
Much more importantly, it is Plymouth 1-0 Gillingham. Craig Tanner in the 78th.
So, it’s now Barcelona 4-4 Sevilla! Yevhen Konoplyanka has tapped in to complete the turnaround from 1-4! You can check in with Jacob for that – link above.
Ipswich have turned it around against Stevenage – Jay Tabb with a simple finish from a David McGoldrick assist. 2-1, blushes spared?
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Millwall have equalised against Barnet – it’s Steve Morison. Charlton are 4-1 up on Dag & Red, it’s Reza Ghoochannejhad.
Carlisle, of League Two, are beating League One’s Chesterfield – Jabo Ibehre makes it 1-0.
Hang on – Gill Swerts? Gill Swerts who played for Belgium and can also do this? Yes, ‘tis he, playing for Notts County now.
Bristol City have one back at Luton. Callum Robertson scores but they are 3-1 down.
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Ipswich knocking on the door against Stevenage – Chris Day, all 40 years of him, is thwarting them at Portman Road. 1-1. Meanwhile, Notts County’s Gill Swerts has been sent off at Huddersfield, where the League Two side lead 2-1.
I’m hoping the excitement hasn’t got to Simon McMahon.
Dagenham & Redbridge have one back at Charlton through Christian Doidge. And Sevilla have a penalty in the Super Cup...which is scored by Gameiro! 4-3 to Barcelona there!
Birmingham have hushed Bristol Rovers’ noise – Andrew Shinnie makes it 2-1 there.
Fulham have taken the lead at Wycombe. And it’ll be worth it just to hear Iain Dowie try and say “Kacaniklic” again when describing the scorer.
Goal! Bristol Rovers 1-1 Birmingham
Ellis Harrison has made it interesting there....
Goal! Luton 3-0 Bristol City (Marriott 63)
The youngster is on fire here – that’s two for him.
Goal! Dundee United 2-0 Dundee (Spittal 67)
Well then, Dundee taken apart on the counter straight after conceding and Spittal sidefoots home superbly!
More from Joe Ludlam in Sheffield: “Not a lot to report from Hillsborough other than a gentleman’s agreement between both teams not to defend crosses. Wednesday are dominant but the game and both defences are enjoyably open.”
Jonathan Obika has pulled one back for Swindon against Exeter, so it’s 1-2 there. The “well-travelled” Leon Clarke has equalised for Bury at Wigan.
Goal! Dundee United 1-0 Dundee (Spittal 64)
What a finish from Spittal!! Lovely footwork on the edge of the box and an opportunistic toe-poke to set Tannadice alight!
Goal! Luton 2-0 Bristol City (Benson 59)
Bristol City look like crying the crocodile tears of a vanquished Championship outfit.
Wolves have made their own turnaround against Newport – a Benik Afobe penalty for 2-1.
Andrew, writing from Maine, says: “Listening online to Southend v Brighton. Sounds excruciatingly dull. Back to the scoreless Albion of last season. We do have a player called Bong though.”
Goal! Huddersfield 1-2 Notts County (Noble 56)
The striker scores his second and turns this one right around the the League Two side!
Goals everywhere now. Jacques Maghoma has made it Bristol Rovers 0-1 Birmingham. And in Tbilisi, a glimmer for Sevilla? Jose Antonio Reyes – remember him? – makes it Barcelona 4-2 Sevilla.
Ipswich have equalised against Stevenage – young defender Josh Yorwerth with a header on his debut there. And it’s Peterborough 2-0 Crawley, Marcus Maddison with that one. Hartlepool lead at Fleetwood through Billy Payner, and Zakaraya Bergdich has made it Charlton 3-0 Dag & Red.
Goal! Brentford 0-4 Oxford (Mullins 54)
That’ll be that. Result of the night if it stays like this. The fourth was tucked away nicely from 10 yards by John Mullins.
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QPR have, I think, wrapped it up at Yeovil – it’s 3-0 and it’s a Nedum Onuoha lash into the roof of the net after a corner wasn’t cleared. It is now Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 Mansfield, Kieran Lee with the goal.
Simon McMahon senses blood! “United looking livelier at the start of the second half, Rankin forcing a good save. A goal could be on the way ...”
Scunthorpe have equalised at Barnsley with the latest in this interminable sequence of penalties. A Paddy Madden penalty.
3 - Will Grigg has scored three goals in his last two League Cup starts (two v Man Utd, one v Bury). Specialist.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 11, 2015
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St Johnstone have equalised against Ross County – the goal coming from Graham Cummins.
It is now Barcelona 4-1 Sevilla. Your goalscorer: Luis Suarez.
In case you’re wondering, it is still Brentford 0-3 Oxford. Those three goals all came in the first 12 minutes!
And Wigan have scored at the DW Stadium! Will Grigg from the penalty spot against Bury, to make it 1-0. It is also Scunthorpe 0-1 Barnsley, also from the spot. Josh Scowen scored this one.
York have equalised at home to Bradford – a Luke Summerfield penalty.
Second halves are underway....
Except at Bolton, where it’s half-time and goalless.
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Nothing that’s happening in these games so far really changes the view that you can’t really read anything into them. But let’s think positively: how is the game you’re watching going?
Half-times all round!
Is your team tumbling out?
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Craig Noone has scored for Cardiff – they lead AFC Wimbledon 1-0. And it’s goalless at half-time in the Dundee derby.
Half-time at Adams Park, 0-0. A game so deprived of quality the referee blew up bang on the second so we could draw a line under it.
— Alan Smith (@alansmith90) August 11, 2015
Maybe not so lively at Wycombe then....
Goal! Luton 1-0 Bristol City (Marriott 45)
The former Ipswich striker has put the Hatters ahead against the Championship side.
And it’s Rochdale 1-0 Coventry – a belter from Donal McDermott.
Sounds lively at Wycombe v Fulham but it’s still goalless. Hull still goalless at Accrington too. A goal at Rotherham on the stroke of half time though, Jordan Bowery making at 1-0 against Cambridge. And Mansfield have one back at Hillsbrough! Ryan Tafazolli makes a game of it.
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Goal! Huddersfield 1-1 Notts County (Noble 42)
Parity for the men from League Two.
Still looking fun at Tannadice; Dundee just whizzed a fizzing cross across goal but nobody was on hand to convert. But Barcelona are now 3-1 up against Sevilla – Rafinha.
Oh, and Exeter are 2-0 up at Swindon in our League One v League Two mini-shock. That one was scored by David Wheeler.
Charlton are 2-0 up over Dag & Red – Karlan Ahearne-Grant from the edge of the box.
Goal! MK Dons 0-1 Leyton Orient (Lewington o.g. 36)
Another own goal from a Championship defender. At the moment you’d think none of these clubs wanted a long cup run.
Joe Ludlam is at a game!
“I’m at Wednesday-Mansfield, and have also viewed your report. That’d be a score draw as far as your target goes, except that I’ve got four friends with me and not one of them has had their phone out yet. Crowd is pretty thin, despite a healthy showing in the Mansfield end. Put your money on the MBM hit counter.”
At the moment my money’s staying in my pocket.
Ooooh, that’s a bad miss from Bolton’s Gary Madine, fluffing a header just five yards out against Burton. Still goalless in the 8pm kick-off.
Exeter lead at Swindon, which goes down as a surprise. Alex Nicholls with the goal.
Huddersfield have become another of those rare beasts – Championship teams in the lead. Murray Wallace has scored against Notts County: 1-0.
Goal! Ipswich 0-1 Stevenage (Berra o.g.34)
Ipswich have an abysmal record in this competition of late. This would be five consecutive exits to lower-league teams in a row. Dean Gerken parried Dean Parrett’s shot, but right against the shins of Christophe Berra. In it went.
Tyler Walker has scored for Nottingham Forest! It’s Forest 1-2 Walsall.
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Goal! Blackburn 1-2 Shrewsbury (Barnett 32)
Doesn’t matter who scored the last one, because Tyrone Barnett has definitely put this one away! A left-foot lash inside the near post, and the shock is back on.
Blackburn have equalised against Shrewsbury – looked like a Nathan Delfouneso header but could have been an own goal.
Luis Suarez has just had a goal disallowed for Barcelona, presumably because it wasn’t a direct free-kick.
Blackpool, those paragons of stability, are 3-0 down at Northampton now. Sam Hoskins did the business.
25: CHANCE. Good opportunity for the visitors as Akinyemi twists away from Yorwerth before McAllister lashes well wide (0-0) #itfc
— Ipswich Town FC (@Official_ITFC) August 11, 2015
Stevenage have apparently started well at Ipswich. Meanwhile, Tony Watt has made it Charlton 1-0 Dagenham & Redbridge. All of which means none of those shouty goal updates from me for a while now, after that early rush.
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A quiet minute or two, now....although Northampton are now 2-0 up over Blackpool, Dominic Calbert-Lewin with the second.
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How can you watch all those games at once @NickAmes82 ? Are you located in some sort of NORAD for the Capital One Cup?
— Elias Thorsson (@Eliasthorsson) August 11, 2015
That’s sensitive information. Bradford lead at York.
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Jose Semedo has put Sheffield Wednesday two up over Mansfield, so that one might be done and dusted 19 minutes in. Northampton lead Blackpool through Chris Hackett.
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And J.R. has just seen Jay Emmanuel-Thomas make it Yeovil 0-2 QPR. Nice far-post finish from him.
J.R. in Illinois is keeping it real (ish):
“Here in the U.S. the Capital One Cup game they are televising is Yeovil Town versus Queens Park Raisins. Of my own free will, and with no particular interest in either team, I have chosen to watch the game at Huish Park instead of the UEFA Super Cup. What do you make of that?
“(OK, bit of a confession. Got the Super Cup up on the computer and keeping half an eye on it. Messi with two brilliant free kick goals to Banega’s one in the first sixteen minutes. The skill level in that game seems to be a bit higher than the one at Yeovil)“
More from Simon McMahon at Tannadice: “Very open start at Tannadice, real end to end stuff here, Nick. Dundee have had the best chance and look dangerous, but have been forced to make an early change. Wouldn’t like to be making any predictions about how this one will end.”
Tallies with what I’m half-watching – good tempo to the game there.
In the other SPL match, Craig Curran has just put Ross County a goal up at St Johnstone.
In Tbilisi, Lionel Messi has just scored ANOTHER free-kick and it’s now Barcelona 2-1 Sevilla, all three goals coming from direct free kicks in the first quarter-hour!
In Wolverhampton, it’s now Wolves 1-1 Newport thanks to Nouha Dicko.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 0-2 Walsall (Bradshaw 14)
Eventful start to this evening, eh?
QPR have taken the lead at Yeovil. Their striker, Sebastian Polter, bustled down the left and squeezed a shot just under the home goalkeeper.
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Goal! Nottingham Forest 0-1 Walsall
Tom Bradshaw scores for the League One side, and it would currently be quicker to list the Championship sides that aren’t losing at home. Sheffield Wednesday have just scored against Mansfield, mind you – big-money signing Lucas Joao makes it 1-0.
Goal! Brentford 0-3 Oxford (Roofe 12)
Errrm, right. This was a cracking strike from 45 yards by Kemar Roofe, reacting to a header out from the home goalkeeper Jack Bonham and whacking it into the vacant net! Crikey.
Dundee just had a great chance at Tannadice, home ‘keeper Zwick forced into a sharp double save. And Barnet lead at Millwall with a John Akinde penalty.
Goal! Brentford 0-2 Oxford (Hylton 9)
Was this a smart idea? Catastrophic from Brentford, who concede another with a bizarre ricochet off Danny Hylton.
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Goal! Blackburn 0-1 Shrewsbury (Collins 9)
Like that one – James Collins with a cool finish from a rebound in a deserted-looking Griffin Park.
Goal! Wolves 0-1 Newport (Boden 6)
I think what we’ll do tonight is make big deals of goals like this, that look shock-worthy, and selected others.
Barcelona have equalised in Tbilisi and we’re just seven minutes in! It’s Lionel Messi, and it’s also a luscious free-kick.
Peterborough, in fact, may have struck a few seconds before that – taking the lead against Crawley through Conor Washington.
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We have our first cup goal of the night! Brentford 0-1 Oxford
A sharp finish from the edge of the box by the League Two side’s Liam Sercombe at Griffin Park!
Sevilla have taken the lead against Barcelona! A luscious Ever Banega free-kick.
Simon McMahon writes in from Tannadice: “Cracking atmosphere at a packed Tannadice for tonight’s Dundee derby. Come on United!!!”
Cracking stuff Simon, keep us posted. I can see Dundee making the very early running on my screen.
Peeeeeeeep!
They’re underway in Tbilisi and about to get underway in Dundee, so I’ll bet most of our cup ties are underway too...
A reminder: do write or tweet in. Your Capital One Cup first round experience should be a shared experience.
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Strong-looking Hull side at Accrington:
STARTING XI: Jakupovic, Odubajo, Maguire, Davies, Robertson, Elmohamady, Meyler, Huddlestone, Clucas, Aluko, Jelavić #ASFCHUL
— Hull City (@HullCity) August 11, 2015
If you’re supporting, say, a Championship team tonight, how important is this game to you? Bothered? Completely under your radar? Excited that it’s possible to get quite a long way in this tournament with little let or hindrance, should you apply yourselves properly, and get yourselves a genuine shot at Wembley? Or are you more concerned with scraping £14m together for James Vaughan, or whatever the latest nonsense is.
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So...errrr.....this has happened:
Best goalkeeper goal ever? ADO goalkeeper Hansen equalizes with an injury time back heel volley! #adopsv https://t.co/wtlIz1CXLK
— 11tegen11 (@11tegen11) August 11, 2015
Do you have Georgia on your mind? In that case, the road leads back to Jacob Steinberg’s MBM of Barcelona v Sevilla in the European Super Cup, taking place in Tbilisi. You are allowed to keep both windows open at once.
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We have a correspondent At The Game.
At Adams Park for Wycombe v Fulham in the League Cup. A battle of straightforward 4-4-2s, both with strong starting XIs #wwfc #ffc
— Alan Smith (@alansmith90) August 11, 2015
Ipswich’s team to play Stevenage.
TEAM NEWS: Gerken, Chambers, Yorwerth, Berra, Kenlock, Coke, Douglas, Toure, Tabb, McGoldrick, Pitman #itfc pic.twitter.com/dt6otmrCak
— Ipswich Town FC (@Official_ITFC) August 11, 2015
This is a team sheet for Colchester v Reading.
Official team sheet 4 #colu v Reading in League Cup pic.twitter.com/GjsBAuvfuf
— Carl Marston (@Carl_Marston) August 11, 2015
Thoroughly depressed and angry with Forest at the moment, but proud of Tyler Walker making his first start. Heck of a talent.
— Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) August 11, 2015
Another bit of fun team news! The Tyler Walker in question is the son of Des.
Unsurprisingly no Charlie Austin in squad for #QPR trip to Yeovil. @OfficialJET10 starts, as does Ben Gladwin and Matt Phillips. #ytfc
— Ben Fisher (@benfisherJ) August 11, 2015
Bit of team news from what we’ll grandiosely call one of our “featured games”.
Tonight’s games all kick off at 7.45pm, by the way. Except for Bolton v Burton, which starts at 8pm. If that one goes into extra time then – not gonna lie – I’m promising you nothing.
On which subject – that serves as clarification that tonight’s cup ties do indeed go straight to extra time and, if necessary, penalties if they’re level after 90.
Up for the Cup!
Are you? Let’s hope so, because there are 32 (thirty-two) items Capital One Cup ties afoot this evening and we, reader, are about to commence a wild rodeo ride through the tournament’s badlands – a wild place, populated by very few, where literally anything might happen.
That’s not untrue, because shocks – such as they are – are very common at this stage due to the number of players rested, the rattly emptiness of some of the bigger clubs’ stadia and, dare one suggest it, an early-season drop in intensity from those who feel they ought to be somewhere else. So it’s hard to confidently call too many of this evening’s games, even if the reverse might seem true on paper.
You can see a full list of tonight’s matches here. But here are some of the chewier bits of marshmallow in tonight’s rocky road:
Yeovil v QPR – A Championship fixture two seasons ago; now League Two meets newly-relegated-from-Premier-League. What could possibly go right?
Wycombe v Fulham – Well-managed League Two play-off final tragics host possibly-getting-their-act-together-but-it’s-early-days Championship outfit.
Port Vale v Burnley – Burslem meets Burnley in an acid test of whether Sean Dyche and co really want anything more than instant promotion.
Accrington Stanley v Hull – For similar reasons to the above, minus the assonance and Sean Dyche.
Ipswich v Stevenage – Teddy Sheringham bats for an upset against Mick McCarthy, who helpfully announced his starting lineup yesterday.
Wigan v Bury – Because it sounds like a local derby, so I’m sure the DW Stadium will be packed out.
There are also a couple of games in Scotland. St Johnstone play Ross County and, perhaps more excitingly, there’s a Dundee derby! It’s at Tannadice between Dundee United and Dundee, and we’ll be keeping you abreast of that.
There we go. I’m aiming for this blog to get more hits than there are paying spectators at – let’s say – Sheffield Wednesday v Mansfield, so let’s help each other towards that aim. If you’re at a match tonight, let me know which one, how it’s going; tell me a story, send me a picture. Let’s interact.
Nick will be here shortly.
