Carabao Cup draw in full
Everton v Watford
Aston Villa v Wolves
Manchester City v Southampton
Burton Albion v Leicester City
Crawley Town v Colchester United
Chelsea v Manchester United
Oxford v Sunderland
Liverpool v Arsenal
And with that, I’m gone. It’s been eventful. Here’s one more match report. Bye!
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A couple of match reports for you:
That is a very tasty draw. A couple of massive ties - Chelsea v Manchester United, Liverpool v Arsenal - and one of Crawley or Colchester will be in the quarter-finals!
Now it’s the draw for round four! This happened really very quickly, almost as if Sky needed to go to an ad break. Anyway, here it is:
Everton v Watford
Aston Villa v Wolves
Manchester City v Southampton
Burton Albion v Leicester City
Crawley Town v Colchester United
Chelsea v Manchester United
Oxford v Sunderland
Liverpool v Arsenal
So it’s humiliation for West Ham, disaster for Bournemouth, disappointment for Sheffield United but glory for Manchester United, who thrashed Rochdale 5-3 on penalties at Old Trafford. Here are the final final scores:
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Aston Villa
Burton Albion 2-0 Bournemouth
Chelsea 7-1 Grimsby Town
Manchester United 1-1 Rochdale (Manchester United through on penalties)
MK Dons 0-2 Liverpool
Oxford United 4-0 West Ham United
Sheffield United 0-1 Sunderland
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Reading (Wolves through on penalties)
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Final score: Burton Albion 2-0 Bournemouth
And the final whistle finally sounds at the Pirelli Stadium, where the lights have gone out for Bournemouth!
Manchester United beat Rochdale 5-3 on penalties!
Dan James scores with United’s fifth penalty, and they’re through after a perfect shoot-out!
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Greenwood also scores from the spot. United’s penalties have been, well, spot on so far.
Fred tucks his penalty away, and Morley does likewise. United lead 3-2 after three penalties apiece.
A lovely penalty from Pereira, who sidefoots high to his right while the Rochdale keeper goes low to the left! And then Romero saves Rochdale’s second!
Rochdale also convert their first penalty, the keeper going the right way but still unable to reach it!
The shoot-out is about to get under way at Old Trafford. Juan Mata is to take the first penalty ... and he sends the keeper the wrong way!
Some news from our European friends: PSG have lost 2-0 at home to Reims, and Rodrygo has scored a brilliant goal on his debut for Real Madrid, who beat Osasuna 2-0.
It’s all over at Old Trafford, and Rochdale have taken Manchester United to a penalty shoot-out!
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Wolves beat Reading on penalties!
Wolves have won the shoot-out 4-2!
At Old Trafford, the game is about to go into stoppage time with Manchester United laying siege to the Rochdale goal!
And Reading’s next penalty is sent into orbit! Wolves are in control of this shoot-out now.
SAVE! Swift, author of that stoppage-time rabona, has missed his penalty! It’s 1-1 in the shoot out, but Reading have taken two penalties and Wolves only one!
Some final scores, and some latest scores, here:
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Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Aston Villa
Burton Albion 2-0 Bournemouth (still playing here)
Chelsea 7-1 Grimsby Town
Manchester United 1-1 Rochdale (still playing there)
MK Dons 0-2 Liverpool
Oxford United 4-0 West Ham United
Sheffield United 0-1 Sunderland
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Reading (penalties here)
Scottish League Cup
Celtic 5-0 Partick Thistle
Heart of Midlothian 2-2 Aberdeen (extra time being played)
Kilmarnock 0-0 Aberdeen (extra time being played)
Livingston 0-1 Rangers
GOAL! Wolves 1-1 Reading (Boye, 90+9 mins)
Reading have equalised with a header from a 99th-minute rabona cross!
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GOAL! Burton 2-0 Bournemouth (Broadhead, 72 mins)
Into added time at Burton, and there’ll be 28 minutes of it! It starts with a goal, Nathan Broadhead sidefooting in unchallenged at the far post after a low cross from the right! Sky say it was scored in the 72nd minute rather than the 98th.
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GOAL! Oxford United 4-0 West Ham (Baptiste, 90+2)
It’s a thrashing! Shandon Baptiste picks up the ball outside the area, skips into it, cuts onto his right foot and sidefoots a shot across goal and in! The keeper doesn’t even bother to dive, which pretty much sums up the state of West Ham’s defending here.
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Final scores! Chelsea, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Sunderland are through
Three Premier League sides are through, and one goes out - it’s a tale of Max Power and max humiliation for Sheffield United.
GOAL! Man Utd 1-1 Rochdale (Matheson, 76 mins)
Rochdale have only gone and equalised! 16-year-old Luke Mathesonn with it, running onto a looping cross from the left and smashing a volley that bounces into the net!
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GOAL! Chelsea 7-1 Grimsby (Hudson-Odoi, 89 mins)
I was just tapping away, composing an update about Chelsea’s sixth goal, scored by Michy Batshuayi, when they run away and score a seventh! It’s the most popular of the night, Callum Hudson-Odoi running into the area before lashing a vicious shot inside the near post!
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GOAL! Oxford United 3-0 West Ham (Fosu, 84 mins)
Oxford clear a West Ham corner to the halfway line. A West Ham defender comes across to deal with it, but at the vital moment he falls over, allowing Tariqu Fosu to collect the ball and sprint away, all the way to the West Ham area, round the keeper, and score! West Ham are being humbled here!
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Meanwhile at Burton, it’s lights, and indeed game, back on!
GOAL! Man Utd 1-0 Rochdale (Greenwood, 68 mins)
Finally, United take the lead at home to Rochdale! Mason Greenwood gets the ball in the right-hand side of the area, checks onto his left foot and then scores with a low shot inside the near post. The keeper will be disappointed there, methinks.
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GOAL! Chelsea 5-1 Grimsby (James, 82 mins)
Reece James, given a tiny scrap of pace a few yards outside the area, curls a lovely shot inside the right-hand corner!
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Match abandoned? Burton Albion P-P Bournemouth
Bournemouth have got a massive get-out-of-jail card at Burton. Or have they?
STAY IN YOUR SEATS. The referee appeared to blow the final whistle but we're hearing the match may NOT have been abandoned just yet...#BAFChttps://t.co/ssUL1d9FO2
— Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) September 25, 2019
The lights have failed for a third time at Burton Albion, and this is starting to get silly.
GOAL! Brighton 1-3 Aston Villa (Grealish, 77 mins)
Jack Grealish comes off the bench to half-volley Villa back into a two-goal lead from just inside the area!
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Another save at MK Dons and this time it’s Kelleher who stops the home side getting a foothold in the game! More accurately Bowery hits his leg with a header, with the keeper knowing very little about it, but for a moment there that looked a certain goal.
GOAL! Oxford United 2-0 West Ham (Taylor, 71 mins)
A low cross from the right, and the simplest of tap-ins by Matt Taylor at the far post!
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Liverpool hit the post! Oxlade-Chamberlain slams in a vicious low 30-yard screamer, which is touched onto the woodwork by the keeper!
The lights are back on at the Pirelli Stadium, where Burton are insisting it’s not their fault, and that the entire town has been plunged into darkness (though their own scoreboard, strangely, was not).
Incredible Rochdale miss at Old Trafford! They work the ball to the byline, square it to Camps, four yards out, and even though he doesn’t make good contact it still took phenomenal reactions for Wan-Bissaka to hook it clear!
GOAL! MK Dons 0-2 Liverpool (Hoever, 69 mins)
Another Milner assist! From the left wing he lifts the ball to the back stick, where Hoever steams in, outjumps everyone else by a massive margin, and thumps in a super header!
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Meanwhile at Burton the lights come back on, the players come back out, the match restarts and, two minutes later, the floodlights fail again!
GOAL! Brighton 1-2 Aston Villa (Roberts, 61 mins)
Brighton pull one back! It’s a corner from the right, turned in from the edge of the six-yard box!
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That was Oxford’s first shot on target. West Ham immediately bring on Haller, and very nearly go two down!
Following that substitution, Fabianski has made a world-class save to stop us from going two behind. Come on lads!!#OXFWHU 1-0 (57)
— West Ham United (@WestHam) September 25, 2019
GOAL! Oxford United 1-0 West Ham (Moore, 55 mins)
A free kick is tossed into the area, headed across goal, passed around a bit - all this inside the penalty area - crossed back in, and Elliott Moore controls, turns, and surprises the goalkeeper with an early shot that rolls inside the far post!
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GOAL! Chelsea 4-1 Grimsby (Zouma, 56 mins)
That’s Chelsea home and hosed! Barkley takes a free-kick short, and the ball is crossed from the right wing. I think Grimsby’s No4, Davis, could have dealt with it but he tried to usher the ball across the area to safety and Zouma punished him by flicking out a boot and diverting it in!
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Floodlight failure! It’s all gone very dark at Burton, where the home side lead Bournemouth 1-0 but, more importantly, need an electrician sharpish.
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It’s not all goalkeeping howlers: Villa’s Trezeguet has just been denied by a miracle save from Brighton’s Button!
“Someone, for the love of God, make these United players do some rondos in training,” pleads Souradeep Sengupta. “This is punishing to watch even for hardened fans.”
The half-time whistle has now gone at Old Trafford, where Manchester United are being held to a goalless draw with Rochdale. Meanwhile, the other games have all restarted.
Five minutes to go until half-time in Paris, and Paris Saint-Germain are 1-0 down to Reims.
Here are all the key half-time scores:
Carabao Cup
Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Aston Villa
Burton Albion 1-0 Bournemouth
Chelsea 3-1 Grimsby Town
Manchester United 0-0 Rochdale (still playing there)
MK Dons 0-1 Liverpool
Oxford United 0-0 West Ham United
Sheffield United 0-1 Sunderland
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Reading
Scottish League Cup
Celtic 1-0 Partick Thistle
Heart of Midlothian 1-2 Aberdeen
Kilmarnock 0-0 Aberdeen
Livingston 0-1 Rangers
Chance for Manchester United! It’s a Greenwood cross from the right that floats onto the head of Pogba, on the edge of the six-yard box, with the keeper leaden-footed at the front stick, but his header floats high!
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“Any word on the Man Utd game? The Guardian article headline says you are covering it,” wonders Douglas Thiel. Er, no news is good news, right? I can tell you that United have had two shots on target, and Rochdale none. United have just won a corner, though. It is their first of the game.
GOAL! Chelsea 3-1 Grimsby (Pedro, 43pen)
Pedro scores from the spot! As a corner is sent into the area Zouma is blocked at its edge and tumbles, the referee is about two yards away and points to the spot, and Pedro sends the keeper the wrong way! Ross Barkley’s time as designated penalty taker, if it ever existed, appears to be over.
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GOAL! MK Dons 0-1 Liverpool (Milner, 41 mins)
Another howler! James Milner, from precisely on the line at the edge of the area, on the left-hand corner, blasts a vicious shot straight at the goalkeeper, who tries to catch it but fails and it skews over his right shoulder and into the net, despite the keeper’s desperate attempt to claw it away!
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GOAL! Brighton 0-2 Aston Villa (Hourihane, 33 mins)
Villa double their lead at the Amex, Hourihane smartly converting a straightforward chance after being teed up by Keinan Davis, whose lungbusting run down the left and into the area was very fine.
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“Given Liverpool have raided their academy for tonight’s game v MK, who’s playing in the Checkatrade Trophy match at Fleetwood? The U11s?” wonders Graeme Thorn. Yes, plenty of debuts there as well.
GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Reading (Jordao, 27 mins)
That’s a goalkeeping howler! Bruno Jordao’s shot is hard enough, but it’s from crazy distance and straight at the keeper, who inexplicably fumbles it in!
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Another chance for Liverpool! After Milner laid one on a plate for Elliott, this time Elliott lifts the ball into the area and Milner, from just inside the corner of the six-yard box, heads across goal and wide!
Oxford hit the West Ham woodwork! It’s a free-kick from 20 yards or so, which is lifted over the wall but not quite into the net!
GOAL! Brighton 0-1 Aston Villa (Jota, 22 mins)
A hard, low cross from the left is palmed out by the goalkeeper but it goes straight to Jota, who controls and then pummels a low shot into the net!
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GOAL! Chelsea 2-1 Grimsby (Green, 19 mins)
After conceding twice in the opening minutes Grimsby have managed to slow the Chelsea goal train, and now they’re back in the game! It’s an assist from the goalkeeper, and the ball bounces through to Matt Green who volleys an absolute cracker into the top corner from just inside the area!
15' GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! @Matt10Green WITH AN ABSOLUTE WONDERSTRIKE AT STAMFORD BRIDGE 🚀
— Grimsby Town F.C. (@officialgtfc) September 25, 2019
🔵 @ChelseaFC 2-1 #GTFC ⚫️⚪️ pic.twitter.com/9IbP2RyHqn
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GOAL! Burton 1-0 Bournemouth (Sarkic, 14 mins)
Burton take the lead! It’s a cross from the left, and Sarkic times his run from deep perfectly to meet the ball just as it drops to earth, and he thunders a low half-volley into the net!
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Incredible miss from Liverpool! Milner does excellently, cutting in from the left, and his low pul-back finds Elliott at the far post, and with another yawning net to aim at he hits the bar!
Chance for MK Dons! Hesitation from the keeper, who could surely have claimed the ball and ended the move, and instead it’s pulled back to McGrandles, who shoots over an empty net!
GOAL! Sheffield United 0-1 Sunderland (Power, 9 mins)
Max Power by name, max power by nature! It’s a 20-yarder, and it flies into the top left corner! I think, to be fair, that it was probably only 80% power.
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GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Grimsby (Batshuayi, 7 mins)
And another one! It’s a low ball from the right that arrives behind Batshuayi, but he controls, spins and shoots into the top corner!
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GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Grimsby (Barkley, 4 mins)
Chelsea take an early lead! Barkley picks up the ball 10 yards outside the area, with a defender in front of him. So he runs around his opponent, spies empty space in front of him, keeps going into the box and then scores with a low shot inside the near post!
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Peeeeeep! And they’re off!
Out they come now, holding the hands of some lucky young pups who look all kinds of cute in their matchday kits. Yes, it’s the mascots!
Matt Dony writes: “I hadn’t thought about that Beautiful South song, but I am quite confident that, should injuries affect Liverpool’s backline, Hoever should be able to fill a defensive vacuum.”
Here’s a good stat. Well, two good stats.
At 16 years, 174 days old, Harvey Elliott becomes Liverpool’s 2nd youngest player & the youngest to start a match - he was born in April 2003, over 4 months after teammate James Milner made his senior debut pic.twitter.com/lXrexN84Cv
— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) September 25, 2019
And the teams for tonight’s one all-Premier League encounter:
Brighton: Button, Roberts, Duffy, Bong, Archie Davies, Baluta, Jenks, Cochrane, Richards, Connolly, Gwargis. Subs: Steele, Jordan Davies, O’Hora, Radulovic, Yapi, Spong, Longman.
Aston Villa: Steer, Elmohamady, Konsa, Hause, Targett, McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane, Jota, Davis, Trezeguet. Subs: Wesley, Grealish, El Ghazi, Guilbert, Nyland, Mings, Ramsey.
Referee: Graham Scott.
Axel Tuanzabe captains Manchester United at Old Trafford:
Man Utd: Romero, Wan Bissaka, Tuanzebe, Jones, Rojo, Fred, Pogba, Andreas Pereira, Lingard, Chong, Greenwood. Subs: Lindelof, Mata, Grant, James, Garner, McTominay, Williams.
Rochdale: Sanchez, Matheson, Morley, McNulty, Norrington-Davies, Dooley, Williams, Rathbone, Camps, Keohane, Henderson. Subs: Andrew, Lynch, Wilbraham, Ryan, Bradley, Tavares, Thomas.
Referee: John Brooks.
Team news from the Pirelli Stadium:
Burton Albion: O’Hara, Akins, O’Toole, Nartey, Hutchinson, Edwards, Wallace, Fraser, Broadhead, Boyce, Sarkic. Subs: Buxton, Templeton, Anderson, Beardsley, Dyer, Livesey, Sbarra.
Bournemouth: Travers, Francis, Mepham, Simpson, Kelly, Lewis Cook, Surman, Kilkenny, Ibe, Fraser, Solanke. Subs: Callum Wilson, Danjuma, Harry Wilson, Dobre, Camp, Dennis, Jordan.
Referee: John Busby.
The Chelsea team in full. And Grimsby’s:
Chelsea: Caballero, James, Guehi, Zouma, Alonso, Gilmour, Barkley, Pulisic, Pedro, Hudson-Odoi, Batshuayi. Subs: Jorginho, Abraham, Mount, Tomori, Cumming, Anjorin, Maatsen.
Grimsby: McKeown, Hewitt, Hendrie, Pollock, Davis, Gibson, Clifton, Hessenthaler, Whitehouse, Green, Hanson. Subs: Cook, Robson, Rose, Vernam, Wright, Ogbu, Russell.
Referee: Keith Stroud.
This just in from Molineux:
Wolverhampton: Ruddy, Vallejo, Bennett, Kilman, Doherty, Bruno Jordao, Neves, Ruben Vinagre, Gibbs-White, Pedro Neto, Cutrone. Subs: Sanderson, Rui Patricio, Coady, Perry, Joao Moutinho, Shabani, Cundle.
Reading: Virginia, Howe, McIntyre, Miazga, Richards, Blackett, Barrett, Adam, Rinomhota, Meite, Boye. Subs: Walker, Baldock, Swift, Ejaria, Olise, Osho, Puscas.
Referee: Peter Bankes.
Team news from Bramall Lane:
Sheffield Utd: Moore, Jagielka, Stearman, Bryan, Kieron Freeman, Luke Freeman, Besic, Morrison, Osborn, Robinson, Mousset. Subs: Stevens, Fleck, Basham, McBurnie, Norwood, Verrips, Clarke.
Sunderland: Burge, Conor McLaughlin, Flanagan, Lynch, De Bock, McGeouch, Power, Maguire, O’Nien, Embleton, Wyke. Subs: Dobson, Grigg, Leadbitter, Hume, Patterson, Taylor, Connelly.
Referee: Tim Robinson.
Here’s a quick Carabao Cup changeometer:
Liverpool 11
Chelsea 11
Sheffield United 10
Wolverhampton Wanderers 10
West Ham United 9
Manchester United 9
Aston Villa 9
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Top rainbow action at Burton tonight:
Meanwhile in Oxford:
Oxford Utd: Eastwood, Long, Dickie, Moore, Ruffels, Hall, Brannagan, Thorne, Baptiste, Forde, Mackie. Subs: Taylor, Woodburn, Fosu, Stevens, Sykes, Agyei, Jones.
West Ham: Roberto, Zabaleta, Balbuena, Diop, Masuaku, Sanchez, Snodgrass, Wilshere, Fornals, Holland, Ajeti. Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Felipe Anderson, Noble, Goncalo Cardoso, Haller, Coventry.
Referee: Robert Jones.
Here are the full line-ups from Milton Keynes, where Liverpool win the team-change tally 11-5:
Milton Keynes Dons: Moore, Williams, Poole, Walsh, Brittain, Kasumu, McGrandles, Gilbey, Dickenson, Bowery, Nombe. Subs: Nicholls, Lewington, Agard, Martin, Houghton, Boateng, Harley.
Liverpool: Kelleher, Hoever, Lovren, Gomez, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, Keita, Elliott, Brewster, Jones. Subs: Lonergan, Chirivella, van den Berg, Longstaff, Kane, Lewis, Clarkson.
Referee: Oliver Langford.
Chelsea give full debuts to Marc Guehi, Billy Gilmour and Reece James for their home game against Grimsby. Here’s the team:
Here's your Chelsea team tonight! 🙌#CHEGRI pic.twitter.com/DmB3DiyzcX
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) September 25, 2019
And here’s an age-based update:
How old are they in Chelsea's #CarabaoCup squad:
— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) September 25, 2019
1️⃣7️⃣Maatsen, Anjorin
1️⃣8️⃣Gilmour, Hudson-Odoi
1️⃣9️⃣Reece James
2️⃣0️⃣Cumming, Mount
2️⃣1️⃣Abraham, Pulisic, Tomori #CFC #CHEGRI
The fourth round draw will take place at Stadium MK after the Liverpool game tonight. Here are the all-important numbers:
The numbers for the Fourth Round draw have been confirmed.https://t.co/GdssjiiqqO#EFL | #CarabaoCup pic.twitter.com/hZxobiGA2C
— Carabao Cup (@Carabao_Cup) September 25, 2019
Liverpool have announced their team, with debuts for Kelleher, Elliott and Brewster, a Keita comeback and all sorts of excitement:
🔴 TEAM NEWS 🔴
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) September 25, 2019
How we line-up for our @Carabao_Cup clash with @MKDonsFC 👊
Hello world!
Last night Tottenham tasted the vile brew that is League Cup humiliation. Tonight Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United will be desperately attempting to avoid a similar fate. The first and last of those are at home, which coupled with having much better players should give them enough of an advantage over their lower-league opposition, though stranger things have definitely happened. Liverpool meanwhile are expected to field an entire classroom of youngsters in Milton Keynes, with Rhian Brewster, Caomhin Kelleher, Curtis Jones, Sepp van den Berg, Yasser Larouci and Ki-Jana Hoever among the teenaged wizards jostling for a place on the team sheet.
I know what you’re thinking: Hoever? Didn’t the Beautiful South write a song for him?
Anyway, and without further ado, here are tonight’s Carabao Cup fixtures (all 7.45pm BST kick-offs):
Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa
Burton Albion v Bournemouth
Chelsea v Grimsby Town
Manchester United v Rochdale (8pm)
MK Dons v Liverpool
Oxford United v West Ham United
Sheffield United v Sunderland
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Reading
There are also some Scottish League Cup quarter-finals:
Celtic v Partick Thistle
Heart of Midlothian v Aberdeen
Kilmarnock v Aberdeen
Livingston v Rangers
Plus Real Madrid host Osasuna in La Liga at 8pm, the same time that Paris Saint-Germain host Reims and six Serie A matches will get under way, with Napoli and Internazionale, who will overtake Juventus to go top should they beat Lazio at home, among the teams in action.
All in all, it should be a busy night. Welcome!
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