And with that the night’s fun is done. And what fun we had, did we not? Same place tomorrow?
History, meanwhile, is made in the Champions League: Pafos of Cyprus edge out Red Star Belgrade/Crvena Zvezda 3-2 on aggregate to make it through to face the big boys for the first time, while Bodo/Glimt are in similarly uncharted waters after completing a 6-2 aggregate win over Sturm Graz, despite losing 2-1 on the night.
With that tonight’s Carabao Cup action concludes. Your final scores in full:
Accrington Stanley 0-2 Doncaster
Barnsley 2-1 Rotherham
Birmingham 0-1 Port Vale
Bournemouth 0-2 Brentford
Bromley 1-1 Wycombe – Wycombe win 5-4 on penalties
Burnley 2-1 Derby
Burton Albion 0-1 Lincoln City
Cambridge Utd 3-1 Charlton
Cardiff 3-0 Cheltenham
Millwall 2-1 Coventry
Norwich 0-3 Southampton
Preston North End 2-3 Wrexham
Reading 2-1 Wimbledon
Sheff Wed 1-1 Leeds - Sheffield Wednesday win 3-0 on penalties
Stoke 0-3 Bradford
Sunderland 1-1 Huddersfield – Huddersfield win 6-5 on penalties
Swansea 1-1 Plymouth – Swansea win 5-3 on penalties
Wigan 1-0 Stockport County
Wolverhampton 3-2 West Ham
Sunderland beaten on penalties by Huddersfield Town
Finally a penalty is missed, and that’s the end of Sunderland’s Carabao Cup dreams! After 11 perfect penalties Milan Aleksic sends his wide, and Huddersfield are through!
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It’s sudden death penalties at Sunderland, where every one of the first 10 have been converted!
Leeds beaten on penalties by Sheffield Wednesday
Longstaff’s penalty is also saved – Leeds fail to convert any of the three they took, and Wednesday win the shootout 3-0!
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Wednesday now 3-0 up! Meanwhile at Sunderland there have been seven impeccable spot-kicks and Huddersfield lead 4-3.
And now Dominic Calvert-Lewin has skied his! Way over the bar it goes, and Wednesday lead 2-0 after two penalties each!
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Leeds’ Joel Piroe has seen his penalty saved, so it’s advantage Sheffield Wednesday there – the home side have converted their first two.
Penalties also incoming at Sunderland, whose game against Huddersfield has ended 1-1, and at Sheffield Wednesday, whose match against Leeds has finished with the same scoreline.
Also going through on penalties are Wycombe, after an epic shootout against Bromley. The final score is 5-4, after 14 spot-kicks in all, Will Hondermarck with the winning effort.
Swansea are through! Matthew Sorinola’s penalty miss for Plymouth proves decisive as the Swans score all of theirs, making it 5-3 on penalties.
Here’s a report on Celtic’s Champions League elimination:
Some mainly final Carabao Cup scores for you now, with two games now heading to penalties:
Accrington Stanley 0-2 Doncaster
Barnsley 2-1 Rotherham
Birmingham 0-1 Port Vale
Bournemouth 0-2 Brentford
Bromley 1-1 Wycombe – Penalties incoming
Burnley 2-1 Derby
Burton Albion 0-1 Lincoln City
Cambridge Utd 3-1 Charlton
Cardiff 3-0 Cheltenham
Millwall 2-0 Coventry (8pm)
Norwich 0-3 Southampton
Preston North End 2-3 Wrexham
Reading 2-1 Wimbledon
Sheff Wed 1-0 Leeds (8pm)
Stoke 0-3 Bradford
Sunderland 1-1 Huddersfield (still being played)
Swansea 1-1 Plymouth – Penalties being taken
Wigan 1-0 Stockport County
Wolverhampton 3-2 West Ham
A stoppage-time winner (surely) for Burnley! Oliver Sonne is played through, running from the right to the left of the penalty area, and he passes the ball with his left foot past the keeper and in off the post! The lead Derby 2-1 now.
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Apart from the three games that have already finished, and the two later kick-offs at Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday, all the other games are in stoppage time now. And there’s been a key goal in one of them! Kieffer Moore has headed Wrexham into a 3-2 lead at Preston!
The game between Sunderland and Huddersfield has been paused because of a medical emergency in the stands. It’s 1-1 there, with around four minutes still to play.
At Molineux, Jarrod Bowen has been pulled away as he headed towards the West Ham fans, steam almost visibly emanating from his ears, apparently to confront one or more of them. Wolves meanwhile are soaking up the fans’ ovation.
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Sunderland equalise against Huddersfield with six minutes to play! Marc Guiu with an excellent header across goal and in at the far corner after a cross from the left. It’s 1-1 there now.
Boom! Kurya Matsuji has scored a fabulous left-footed 30-yard blaster to put Southampton 3-0 up at Norwich!
Final score: Wolves have beaten West Ham 3-2, coming back from a goal down with half an hour to play thanks to a quickfire double from Jorgen Strand Larsen.
Sheffield Wednesday take the lead in the Yorkshire derby! It’s a bit of a goalkeeping howler from Karl Darlow, who saves a shot, pushes it wide to his left, but then when the ball is sent low and hard into the box by Jamal Lowe he deflects it slowly, agonisingly, over his own goalline!
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The game at Molineux is deep into stoppage time now, Wolves 3-2 up, West Ham throwing everything at it.
And he’s done it again! It’s a cross from the right, and Strand Larsen bullets in a header at the near post. It’s 3-2 now, with six minutes to play!
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Jorgen Strand Larsen, subject of a rapidly-rebuffed £50m bid from Newcastle, has equalised for Wolves against West Ham. It’s 2-2 now at Molineux.
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Here’s your might-as-well-do-it-now 9.05pm BST Carabao Cup score update!
Accrington Stanley 0-0 Doncaster
Barnsley 1-1 Rotherham
Birmingham 0-1 Port Vale
Bournemouth 0-1 Brentford
Bromley 1-1 Wycombe
Burnley v Derby
Burton Albion 0-0 Lincoln City
Cambridge Utd 3-1 Charlton (7.30pm)
Cardiff 3-0 Cheltenham
Millwall 1-0 Coventry
Norwich 0-1 Southampton
Preston North End 2-2 Wrexham
Reading 2-1 Wimbledon (final score)
Sheff Wed 0-0 Leeds (8pm)
Stoke 0-2 Bradford
Sunderland 0-1 Huddersfield
Swansea 1-1 Plymouth
Wigan 0-0 Stockport County
Wolverhampton 1-2 West Ham (7.30pm)
“This has to be rock bottom for Celtic, if not all of Scottish football as a proxy,” says Peter Mumola. It’s an embarrassing result against an unheralded side, but Kiarat – whose players are currently dancing around their dressing-room in front of the TV cameras – worked hard, stayed tactically disciplined and got a bit lucky, which is the basic blueprint for a cup upset.
Final score: Reading 2-1 Wimbledon, and Reading are going to be in the hat, when the hat sees some action tomorrow night.
The Celtic captain, Callum McGregor, speaks:
We were pushing late on to get the goal. A couple of chances in the game but it never quite fell. We have to shake this off, there’s another massive game at the weekend. We have to get over this disappointment very, very quickly. We know what the noise will be. We have to learn from that as well.
You see these games, you have to make home advantage count. They made it stuffy and credit to them, over the two games they defended really well. We had the better moments and on another night probably go through, but we have to suck it up and get over the disappointment. We are so disappointed, we really wanted Champions League football, but it shows you that on any given night you need to be at the level.
We can still have a good season. The experienced players have got a role to play picking everyone up for the weekend. One thing at Celtic, we never pass the blame. It’s everyone as a collective. Over the two legs we didn’t do enough to hurt them. We’ll get better as the season goes on. We can still have a good season, but we need to get over this.
Lucas Paqueta scores for West Ham, who have come from behind to lead 2-1 at Wolves!
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Brendan Rodgers speaks after Celtic’s Champions League elimination:
It was very frustrating. It’s bitterly disappointing because we were on the right track last season, playing really good football, so to not be in there this season is a huge blow for us. We all know the consequence. We want to be in the Champions League. We aren’t. The Europa League’s still a prestigious tournament, but we missed a massive opportunity in these two games.
Scenes in Almaty, coach getting the bumps, players on the ground sobbing, the works. Meanwhile, many miles away, Tomas Soucek heads in at the back post to equalise for West Ham at Wolves.
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“Nearly three hours of my life I will never get back. And at my age that isn’t insignificant,” writes Joe Pearson, after enduring the game in full.
Kairat Almaty beat Celtic on penalties!
Daizen Maeda fluffs his penalty, sending it low and down the middle, allowing Anarbekov to save with his legs! Kairat have qualified for the Champions League! And Celtic, well, haven’t!
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Another great penalty! Egor Sorokin finds the top corner, and Celtic now must score their fifth, after which Kairat must not!
Ofri Arad makes it 2-1 with a beautiful penalty, high down the middle. Then Callum McGregor thumps his in too. 2-2, but Kairat have two still to take.
Arne Engels sends the keeper one way with a little stutter, and the ball the other. It’s 1-1 now!
Aleksandr Martynovich, on his 38th birthday, has actually scored a penalty! It’s Kairat 1-0 Celtic after two spot-kicks each.
Unbelievable scenes! Three penalties taken, not a single one converted!. Luke McCowan’s penalty is poor, neither hard enough nor well directed enough to beat the keeper if he went the right way. Which he did.
And still! Valeri Gromyko tries a Panenka, Schmeichel dives out of the way, and the ball loops into the crossbar! One penalty each, still 0-0!
And it’s saved! Still nobody can find the net here!
OK, then. Penalties. Celtic’s Adam Idah will take the first …
Fabio Carvalho puts Brentford 1-0 up at Bournemouth! It was a simple header down and into the area, which at least three defenders were much closer to than Carvalho, but perhaps they assumed the keeper would come for it, or maybe that just didn’t notice Carvalho sprinting past them, but it ended up with an easy finish.
Talking of penalties, there are several of those coming up in Almaty after the inevitable goalless draw between Kairat and Celtic limped to a conclusion.
Wolves have missed a penalty but scored a rebound, Hwang Hee-chan thumping his spot-kick into the base of the post but Rodrigo Gomes snaffling the follow-up.
Zan Vipotnik has thundered a 25-yarder into the top corner to put Swansea a goal up at home to Plymouth. Some cracking goals in the League Cup already, almost enough to make up for the Almaty aberration.
Another excellent chance for Celtic, but Nygren’s effort is turned round the post! Then the corner is cleared to the edge of the area, Nygren has another shot, and this is also turned round the post.
Cambridge United lead Charlton by two goals to no goals now, Kylian Kouassi scoring on his full debut after signing on loan from Blackpool, taking his time after the nearest defender helpfully fell over and finding the bottom corner.
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Half time in extra time in Almaty and it’s still Kairat 0-0 Celtic.
Ryan Hardie has scored an absolute beauty to equalise for Wrexham at Preston! There’s some debate on Sky about whether he actually intended that to be a cross, but it looked like a shot to me.
Huddersfield take the lead at Sunderland! A corner from the right is headed out to the edge of the area, where Leo Castledine runs in to blast it into the roof of the net!
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Most Carabao Cup ties have started, and goals are already flying in. Preston’s Lewis Dobbin has scored a very nice goal to put them 1-0 up against Wrexham, while Aaron Ramsey has given Burnley the lead against Derby.
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Another chance for Celtic! This time a pull-back from the left runs to Reo Hatate, but he, stretching and also falling, shoots into a defender.
Meanwhile in the early Carabao Cup kick-off there have already been two goals: Reading and AFC Wimbledon are tied at 1-1, with Liam Fraser opening the scoring for the Royals in the 24th minute and Omar Bugiel equalising two minutes later.
Nobody scored in stoppage time. Another half an hour will have to be endured as a result.
Maybe just two interesting things that coincidentally happened quite close together. Anyway, four minutes of stoppage time await.
And at the other end, Arad’s header from a free-kick is turned round the post by Schmeichel. Interesting things starting to happen!
An amazing chance for Celtic! Daizen Maeda is played through, scampers clear, has only the goalkeeper to beat, and sends his shot over the bar while falling over!
Five minutes to play, which brings the exciting possibility of tiring players making a game-changing mistake. They have not yet done so.
Now 75 minutes have been played, and the award of a free-kick remains the most exciting thing to have happened in them.
Good or bad news, depending on your outlook: for a while readers were excited/perturbed/confused to find that this liveblog appeared to be covering a Champions League game between Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds, and now it does not. As my colleague Alex Reid points out: “Leeds vs Sheffield Wednesday in the Champions League is something you get on your 200th season of Football Manager.”
While you wait for something interesting to happen in this game, here’s some Alexander Isak news. The news being, nothing has changed – he still wants out.
No penalty is given! The ball definitely hit Maeda’s hands, but they were in front of his body so if he hadn’t handled it the shot would have been blocked anyway. But he did handle it. One of those that would have been a pathetically feeble penalty to give someone, but a defending team is still lucky to get away with.
Jorginho’s shot deflects to safety off a defender. A couple of Kairat players think it’s a handball, but the referee doesn’t give anything. Will VAR intervene?
I don’t know why teams touch these free-kicks to the taker, allowing the defenders amassed on the goalline to launch themselves at it. Just welly it goalwards and hope it goes in off somebody, surely?
An interesting thing! McGregor’s back-pass bounces over Schmeichel’s head, and forces the keeper to use his hand to stop it crossing the line. Kairat will therefore have an indirect free-kick on the six-yard line.
The players are back out for the second half. No substitutions have been made.
Joe Pearson has filed a half-time match report: “As a retired football fan in central Indiana, I always enjoy the opportunity to watch an early afternoon weekday match,” he enthuses. “But. This match is dire. I feel I have made a bad life choice.”
Half time: Kairat 0-0 Celtic
Still no sign of a goal in this tie, but the two teams now have 15 minutes to come up with a plan to create one.
There will be one minute of first-half stoppage time. That Forrest header remains the only effort on target.
You may be wondering what exactly happens if this tie remains level on aggregate at the end of this second leg. And I have an answer! It follows the Champions League knockout system, so is exactly the same in format as the knockout matches at the sharp end of the competition will be come next April and May. Here’s the relevant bit of the tournament regulations:
Article 21 Knockout system, extra time and penalty shoot-outs
21.01 For matches played under the knockout system, if the two teams involved in a tie score the same number of goals over the two legs, two 15-minute periods of extra time are played at the end of the second leg. The team that scores more goals during extra time qualifies for the next stage. If both teams score the same number of goals or no goals are scored during extra time, a penalty shoot-out determines which team qualifies for the next stage.
21.02 If extra time is required, there is a five-minute break between the end of normal time and the start of extra time. As a rule, the players remain on the field of play during this five-minute break, at the discretion of the referee.
21.03 Penalties are taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in the IFAB Laws of the Game.
The game has developed into something more interesting, a little more plump with potential. By which I mean, the ball is spending much more time in the vicinity of penalty areas than it did in the opening 20 minutes. Celtic are currently preparing to send it into one of them, from a free-kick on the right.
And one for Celtic moments later! Hatate crosses, Forrest heads goalwards, and Anarbekov turns over the bar! It was a good header, plenty of power on it, but right down the middle of goal and the keeper only needed to fling up a hand.
Chance for Kairat! But Schmeichel saves! And Ricardinho is miles offside anyway!
This game has not been hugely intense so far. Kairat just worked a decent crossing chance on the right, but Tapalov did not produce a decent cross.
The Celtic game has started, and after seven minutes the score remains very much 0-0 (Kairat have had the only shot so far, not on target). The teams look something like this:
Kairat Almaty: Anarbekov, Mrynskiy, Sorokin, Martynovich, Mata, Glazer, Tapalov, Arad, Gromyko, Jorginho, Ricardinho. Subs: Kalmurza, Kasabulat, Kurgin, Sadybekov, Baybek, Shirobokov, Stanojev, Gadrani, Bekbolat, Tuyakbayev, Bagdat, Reimov.
Celtic: Schmeichel, Ralston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Tierney, Nygren, McGregor, Hatate, Yang, Maeda, Forrest. Subs: Sinisalo, Doohan, Simpson-Pusey, Idah, McCowan, Yamada, Osmand, Kenny, Engels, Bernardo, Murray, Donovan.
Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy).
Hello world!
And so another day draws towards a close. Here’s a little summary of what this fine August Tuesday has brought us so far:
1) The Manchester United badnewsometer has swung once again towards 11, what with this:
And also this:
With a side order of this:
2) A bit more transfer news courtesy of Jacob Steinberg, who says West Ham are hunting Monaco’s 21-year-old midfielder Soungoutou Magassa.
3) That Rio Ngumoha is a bit special is he not?
4) David Squires has had his pencil set out again:
5) Max Rushden has guided the Football Weekly panel through a breathless, hugely entertaining and sometimes bizarre discussion of a breathless, hugely entertaining and sometimes bizarre football match, and the result is here:
And now, on with the evening! We’ve got three Champions League play-off fixtures to look forward to tonight, being as follows:
***Potential humiliation klaxon*** Kairat v Celtic (1st leg score 0-0, 5.45pm BST kick-off)
Pafos v Red Star Belgrade (2-1, 8pm)
Sturm Graz v Bodo/Glimt (0-5, 8pm)
And also a bumper 19 Carabao Cup games (7.45pm BST kick-off unless stated):
Accrington Stanley v Doncaster
Barnsley v Rotherham
Birmingham v Port Vale
Bournemouth v Brentford
Bromley v Wycombe
Burnley v Derby
Cambridge Utd v Charlton (7.30pm)
Cardiff v Cheltenham
Millwall v Coventry
Norwich v Southampton
Preston North End v Wrexham
Reading v Wimbledon (7pm)
Sheff Wed v Leeds (8pm)
Stoke v Bradford
Sunderland v Huddersfield
Swansea v Plymouth
Wigan v Stockport County
Wolverhampton v West Ham (7.30pm)
Burton Albion v Lincoln City
There are also some Scottish Challenge Cup games, one FA Cup preliminary round replay, and the potential for other unscripted excitement. Strap yourselves in, it’s going to be a cracker*!
* cracker not guaranteed. Your statutory rights are unaffected
