League Cup first round draw and fixtures

 

Barrow 1-0 Scunthrope United

Birmingham City 1-0 Colchester United

Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Morecambe

Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Barnsley (Bolton win 5-4 on pens)

Bristol Rovers 0-2 Cheltenham Town

Cambridge United 0-0 Swindon Town (Cambridge win 3-1 on pens)

Cardiff City 3-2 Sutton United

Charlton Athletic 0-1 AFC Wimbledon

Crawley Town 2-2 Gillingham (Gillingham win 10-9 on pens)

Derby County 3-3 Salford City (Derby win 5-3 on pens)

Exeter City 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers (Wycombe win 4-3 on pens)

Forest Green Rovers 2-2 Bristol City (Forest Green win 6-5 on pens)

Harrogate Town P-P Rochdale (Rochdale go through due to COVID at Harrogate Town)

Hartlepool United 0-1 Crewe Alexandra

Hull City 1-1 Wigan Athletic (Wigan win 8-7 on pens)

Ipswich Town 0-1 Newport County

Mansfield Town 0-3 Preston North End

Millwall 2-1 Portsmouth

Oldham Athletic 2-2 Tranmere Rovers (Oldham win 4-3 on pens)

Peterborough United 0-4 Plymouth Argyle

Port Vale 1-2 Sunderland

Reading 0-3 Swansea City

Rotherham United 1-2 Accrington Stanley

Sheffield United 1-0 Carlisle United

Shrewsbury Town 2-2 Lincoln City

Stevenage 2-2 Luton Town (Stevenage win 3-0 on pens)

Stoke City 2-1 Fleetwood Town

Walsall 0-0 Doncaster Rovers (Doncaster win 4-3 on pens)

 

 

Blackpool v Middlesbrough

Nottingham Forest v Bradford City

Burton Albion v Oxford United

Coventry City v Northampton Town

Leyton Orient v Queens Park Rangers

 

Odds: (Coral)

 

Man City 3-1f

Chelsea 13-2

Man Utd 7-1

Liverpool 8-1

Arsenal 12-1

Leicester City 12-1

Tottenham 12-1

Everton 16-1

West Ham 20-1

Aston Villa 25-1

Leeds United 25-1

Brighton 40-1

Southampton 40-1

Wolves 40-1

Crystal Palace 50-1

Newcastle 50-1

Brentford 66-1

Burnley 66-1

Bournemouth 80-1

Fulham 80-1

Norwich 80-1

Sheffield United 80-1

Stoke 80-1

Swansea 80-1

Watford 80-1

West Brom 80-1

Birmingham City 100-1

Cardiff 100-1

Nottingham Forest 100-1

QPR 100-1

Let me guess. Manchester City will win this cup again? :lol:

They probably will yet again, They'll be looking for their 5th League Cup in a row and they would overtake Liverpool as the club with the most League Cup titles.

Hope they don’t break our record as we won it 4 times in a row in the 80s!

Second Round Draw

 

 

Northern Section

 

Oldham Athletic v Accrington Stanley

Newcastle United v Burnley

Wigan Athletic v Bolton Wanderers

Huddersfield Town v Everton

Sheffield United v Derby County

Stoke City v Doncaster Rovers

Shrewsbury Town v Rochdale

Nottingham Forest v Wolves

Morecambe v Preston North End

Blackpool v Sunderland

Leeds United v Crewe Alexandra

Barrow v Aston Villa

 

Southern Section

 

Brentford v Forest Green Rovers

Millwall v Cambridge United

West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal

Norwich City v Bournemouth

Cardiff City v Brighton & Hove Albion

Birmingham City v Fulham

Gillingham v Cheltenham Town

Queens Park Rangers v Oxford United

Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle

Stevenage v Wycombe Wanderers

Newport County v Southampton

Northampton Town v AFC Wimbledon

Watford v Crystal Palace

Carlisle are out of this competition again. Went out to Sheffield United. :(

Liverpool vs Norwich and West Ham vs Manchester United live on sky this week in the third round.

 

Surely they could have thought of better ties to show live such as the lower league clubs like pretty sure Wycombe play Man City?

Liverpool vs Norwich and West Ham vs Manchester United live on sky this week in the third round.

 

Surely they could have thought of better ties to show live such as the lower league clubs like pretty sure Wycombe play Man City?

 

All about viewing figures, Liverpool and Man Utd always pull in the biggest crowds. I'm sure nobody wants to watch Wycome 0-8 Man City as it's all become a bit boring and silly.

1-1 in the city Wycombe game, equaliser by De Bruyne. Still could end up 1-8 Rooney 😜

1-1 in the city Wycombe game, equaliser by De Bruyne. Still could end up 1-8 Rooney 😜

 

Ya spoke way too soon, it's City in the Carabo Cup :lol:

😂 knew it would!

Only a few games in but Man Utd look to have totally broken Sancho already. He's lucky Ronaldo is there otherwise loads of people would be getting on his back.

 

Biggest surprise of the night for me is Man City getting a Premier League side in the draw!

I think it's too early to say that Sancho has been broken, he's had a slow start to his United career but I think he can definitely improve and most likely will improve. The game tonight was finished as soon as West Ham went 1-0 up, now West Ham have been rewarded with a match against Man City in the next round.

 

Aston Villa's goalkeeper moved too early a number of times during the penalty shootout against Chelsea which made it a lot easier for them to score but the kids of Villa did well to take it to penalties in the first place.

Aye he moved to the right for three of them well before the Chelsea player got near the kick!

 

Fair play to West Ham got some revenge for Sunday’!

 

Liverpool away to Preston in a Lanchasire Derby!

I think it's too early to say that Sancho has been broken, he's had a slow start to his United career but I think he can definitely improve and most likely will improve. The game tonight was finished as soon as West Ham went 1-0 up, now West Ham have been rewarded with a match against Man City in the next round.

 

Aston Villa's goalkeeper moved too early a number of times during the penalty shootout against Chelsea which made it a lot easier for them to score but the kids of Villa did well to take it to penalties in the first place.

 

He's a quality player and I'm sure he will, but when your price tag is £100m you've got to be performing sooner rather than later.

 

Anyway, I will totally agree sometimes with these games you can't read too much in to them as you have completely new teams, sometimes they gel and sometimes they don't. Feel sorry for Martial too (although I will also say his body language looks totally off), he's been set up as the scapegoat, but for me it comes down to the lack of coaching patterns and fluidity.

Shit result but never mind, a home tie against City would have been tasty. Just showed that no-one in our second team has a prayer of ousting anyone from the first team.

 

Sancho is one of those players who neds the team to be built around him. He needs to be the main man like at Dortmund (or one of them anyway, along with Haaland). I think he's gonna flop for us tbh. Martial is finished, 2019-20 was his best season but has the end product of a broken pencil these days.

 

Shouldn't be a big problem as long as Greenwood & Lingard keep performing, more than happy to keep playing them in the league (or Pogba on the left).

Your never too unhappy to go out of the league cup at this stage!

 

There’s no way Sancho won’t come good at some stage he’s too talented, but he should have stayed at Dortmund another year or two!

I still believe the league cup is a giant waste of time and shouldn’t be open to the Prem clubs, or at least the prem teams in Europe. Happy to avoid a few bits of fixture congestion

 

 

I can’t get The League Cup here but I knew we weren’t playing to win when I saw the line up

Your never too unhappy to go out of the league cup at this stage!

 

There’s no way Sancho won’t come good at some stage he’s too talented, but he should have stayed at Dortmund another year or two!

 

I think the only time the cup becomes a problem is if you win the Champions League (e.g. Chelsea) and the January two legged tie. It's a useful opportunity to win silverware and to play youth and the squad players. If you have a massive squad, then when you get injuries either they come in cold or they're not playing football. So I think it is useful from that perspective, especially at this stage of the season.