Carabao Cup Round of 16 draw
- Chelsea v Southampton
- Arsenal v Leeds United
- Stoke City v Brentford
- West Ham v Manchester City
- Leicester City v Brighton
- Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur
- QPR v Sunderland
- Preston North End v Liverpool
Match report: Manchester United 0-1 West Ham
West Ham won their first match at Old Trafford since 2007, gaining revenge for their Premier League defeat of two days ago. Jamie Jackson was at Old Trafford ...
Match report: Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa (Chelsea win 4-3 on pens)
Thomas Tuchel had to bring in the heavy artillery to finish all square at full time and it wasd his side who advanced on spot-kicks.
Match report: Millwall 0-2 Leicester City
“This was a slow-burn cup tie, and a performance from Brendan Rodgers’ team that was notable only for its efficiency, and the two isolated moments of Premier League quality that decided the game,” writes Barney Ronay.
Match report: Arsenal 3-0 AFC Wimbledon
A truly aduacious backheel from Eddie Nketiah was the pick of the goals as Arsenal put AFC Wimbledon to the sword. Nick Ames was at the Emirates.
Round of 16 draw ...
Harry Redknapp and Micah Richards are at Potton Bowls Club in Befordshire (a member won a competition, apparently) and ready to do the honours ...
Carabao Cup Round of 16 draw
- Chelsea v Southampton
- Arsenal v Leeds United
- Stoke City v Brentford
- West Ham v Manchester City
- Leicester City v Brighton
- Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur
- QPR v Sunderland
- Preston North End v Liverpool
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Tonight's Carabao Cup results
- Brighton 2-0 Swansea City
- Arsenal 3-0 AFC Wimbledon
- Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa (Chelsea win 4-3 on pens)
- Manchester United 0-1 West Ham
- Millwall 0-2 Leicester City
- Wolves 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs win 3-2 on pens)
- Stay tuned for the Round of 16 draw
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Chelsea and Spurs go through ...
Chelsea v Aston Villa: Ben Chilwell misses for Chelsea and Emi Buendia keeps Villa in contention. It’s down to Reece James, who wins the match for Chelsea with a confident spot-kick.
Wolves v Tottenham: Tottenham Hotspur go through on penalties after Conor Coady adds his name to Wolves’s list of shame.
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Chelsea v Aston Villa: Marvelous Nakamba fails to live up to his name, missing Villa’s third.
Wolves v Tottenham: Wolves have missed two spot-kicks against Tottenham. The guilty men: Ruben Neves and Leander Dendoncker.
Chelsea v Aston Villa: Possibly still fuming with the ref, Ashley Young misses Villa’s secopnd penalty, hitting the bar. Romelu Lukaku gives Chelsea the advantage.
Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa: We’ve had three coin-tosses at Stamford Bridge, where Villa skipper Ashley Young is furious with the referee over his apparent inability to toss a coin properly. To be fair, you’d think that would be an important pre-requisite for the job. How curious.
Full time: Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa We’ll have penalties at Stamford Bridge.
Full time: Wolves 2-2 Tottenham We’ll also have penalties at Molineux.
Full time: Arsenal 3-0 AFC Wimbledon
AFC Wimbledon go out with their heads held high but Arsenal’s class showed in the end. Alexandre Lacazette, Emile Smith-Rowe and Eddie Nketiah got the goals that send Arsenal into the next round.
Full time: Manchester United 0-1 West Ham
West Ham gain revenge of sorts for Sunday’s defeat at the hands of Manchester United by advancing at the expense of their hosts. It’s their first win at Old Trafford since 2007.
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Full time: Millwall 0-2 Leicester City
Leicester are through to the last 16 courtesy of goals from Ademola Lookman and Kelechi Iheanacho.
The Nigerian rattles the ball into the top corner to double our lead late on 👌
— Leicester City (@LCFC) September 22, 2021
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GOAL! Millwall 0-2 Leicester City (Iheanacho 88)
I won’t lie, I missed this one as I was glued to proceedings at Old Trafford, where the game between West Ham and Manchester United has turned into a real thriller.
Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: Oh no! Mark Noble blows his chance at redemption after that miss on Sunday, latching on to a pass from Jarrod Bowen as West Ham gallop upfield on the counter-attack. With only Dean Henderson to beat and the goal at his mercy, he fires straight at the goalkeeper. Moments previously, Yarmalenko had missed an even easier chance for West Ham, knocking the ball against the foot of the post with an empty goal to aim at from a tight angle.
Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: It’s backs to the wall time for West Ham, who are hanging in there against a Manchester United side that are laying siege to their goal. Mason Greenwood has been a constant thorn in their side since coming on and is hammering on the Hammers’ door, but the visitors remain in the lead.
GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 AFC Wimbledon (Nketiah 80)
My word! Eddie Nketiah scores with an audacious sweep of his heel, connecting with a cross from the right. That was Cruyff-esque in its execution.
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Full time: Brighton 2-0 Swansea City
For all their second half huffing and puffing, Swansea were unable to breach the Brighton rearguard and are out of the Carabao Cup. Aaron Connolly scored the first half goals that see Brighton into the last 16.
GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 AFC Wimbledon (Smith-Rowe 77)
On as substitutes, Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith-Rowe combine in the AFC Wimbledon penalty area with the young No10 drilling home from close range.
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Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa: Oof! Having been teed up by Timo Werner, Mason Mount performs a soft-shoe shuffle in the Villa penalty area and rolls a low diagonal effort wide of the far post when scoring looked a formality.
Wolves 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur: John Ruddy gets a strong hand to Harry Kane’s effort to maintain the status quo at Molineux.
Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa: Close but no cigar for Aston Villa. Anwar El Ghazi doesn’t hit the ball hard enough from an excellent position, making the save easy for Kepa.
Arsenal 1-0 AFC Wimbledon: It remains 1-0 to the Arsenal, as the chant goes, but Eddie Nketiah has missed an opportunity to put the game beyond their League One visitors by hitting the woodwork.
GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa (Archer 64)
Having missed two decent chances for Villa so far, Cameron Archer scores with a fantastic header, nodding home a wonderful crossfield ball from Matty Cash.
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Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: With no VAR avaialable, Nemaja Matic somehow gets away with kneeing Vladimir Coufal in the undercrackers moments after they had contested the ball. That was an outrageous bif of afters. Soon afterwards, Mason Greenwood replaces Juan Mata and misses a one-on-one after being played in behind by a Donny van de Beek ball over the top. Good save from Areola.
GOAL! Wolves 2-2 Tottenham (Podence 58)
Daniel Podence slots into the corner after being played in by Dendoncker moments after Tanguy Ndombele had been caught in possession in midfield. It’s all square at Molineux.
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Chelsea 1-0 Aston Villa: Oh Timo. Not long after scoring a rare goal, Werner snatches as a shot and prods wide of the upright when scoring looked easier.
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GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Aston Villa (Werner 54)
Timo Werner leaps highest at the far post to head Chelsea into the lead by getting on the end of a Hakim Ziyech inswinger from the right.
Wolves 1-2 Tottenham: Adama Traore is on as a half-time substitute for Wolves and is causing Tottenham all sorts of problems with his marauding runs down the right. It’s Tottenham who have had the most recent goalscoring opportunity, however, with Alphonse Areola getting down to save Harry Kane’s effort from a tight angle.
GOAL! Millwall 0-1 Leicester City (Lookman 50)
Ademola Lookman scores with Leicester’s second shot on target, firing home on the follow-up after Millwall goalkeeper George Long could only parry their first – Kelechi Iheanacho’s long range effort – into his path.
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Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: Jadon Sancho runs in behind the West Ham to volley a Juan Mata dink over the top high and wide.
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa: In a reverse-substitution of the one that made such a big difference in Chelsea’s win against Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend, Mason Mount is on in the second half, with N’Golo Kante making way.
The Guardian’s chief sportswriter and resident Millwall fan tweets ...
James Maddison definitely had doing the rondo at half time at the Den in an orange bib on his career future highlight list
— Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) September 22, 2021
Brighton 2-0 Swansea City: The second half is under way at the Amex Stadium, where Swansea City look much improved after the break. The cross-bar and Brighton goalkeeper Jason Steele have come to the home side’s rescue, as Swansea City pile on the pressure in the early stages of the second half. Korey Smith and Morgan Whittaker were the men who went close.
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Carabao Cup third round half-times
- Brighton 2-0 Swansea City
- Arsenal 1-0 AFC Wimbledon
- Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa
- Manchester United 0-1 West Ham
- Millwall 0-0 Leicester City
- Wolves 1-2 Totenham Hotspur
Millwall 0-0 Leicester: A chance of sorts for Millwall at The Den, where Ben Thompson sends a looping header over the bar to leave the ball nestling on the roof of the Leicester City net.
Chelsea 0-0 Aston: Kepa saves smartly from Aston Villa striker Cameron Archer, who was through on goal and should have scored. The ball breaks to Anwar El Ghazi, whose low drive fizzes narrowly wide.
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Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa: Villa midfielder Morgan Sanson is forced off with injury and replaced by the 17 year old Carney Chukwuemeka, whose big brother Caleb, 19, is also on the bench for the home side.
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Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: Craig Dawson leaves a nasty one in on Jadon Sancho, raking his studs down the winger’s achilles as the two of them contested the ball. It’s nasty but goes unpunished.
GOAL! Wolves 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Dendoncker 38)
Leander Dendoncker takes advantage of some slapstick Ndombele defending to power home a header from at least 12 yards out. That’s a thumping effort into the top right-hand corner, but what was Ndombele doing?
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Millwall 0-0 Leicester City: Just to confirm, this match is taking place.
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa: There’s nothing of note to report from Stamford Bridge, beyond the fact that regal Aston Villa fan Prince William is in attendance for what has been an uneventful game against Chelsea so far.
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Half-time: Brighton 2-0 Swansea City
Seeking a first-half hat-trick, Aaron Connolly shoots narrowly wide of the right upright from 15 yards out moments before the interval. Swansea City have it all to do in the second half.
GOAL! Brighton 2-0 Swansea City (Connolly 38)
Connolly scores his second of the night, receiving a pass on the inside left, running at the backpedaling Rhy Williams and slotting the ball low into the bottom right-hand corner.
GOAL! Wolves 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Kane 23)
Harry Kane runs on to a wonderful Dele Alli pass from deep, controls the ball with a terrific first touch and fires past John Ruddy. That’ll do the confidence of both Spurs players no end of good.
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GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Swansea City (Connolly 33)
It’s a rare goal for Aaron Connolly and he needed assistance to score it. His shot took a deflection on its way past Swansea goalkeeper Steven Benda.
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Ndombele chases down the Wolves defence to win the ball back. He composes himself and slots the ball into the back of the net.
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 22, 2021
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Manchester United 0-1 West Ham: Manchester United have sparked into life in the wake of that West Ham goal and should have a penalty when Mark Noble grabbed a handful of Jesse Lingard’s shirt and hauled him to the ground. Juan Mata has also hit the woodwork for United, while Anthony Martial prodded wide when he should at the very least have hit the target.
GOAL! Wolves 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Ndombele 14)
Tanguy Ndombele ends a long goal drought to put Tottenham one up at Molineux.
GOAL: Arsenal 1-0 AFC Wimbledon (Lacazette 11pen)
Gabriel Martinelli is taken down in the AFC Wimbledon penalty area and Lacazette fires home from 12 yards.
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Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Awful news for Yerson Mosquera at Molineux, where the 20-year-old has been stretchered off in tears just 10 minutes into his debut.
GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 West Ham (Lanzini 9)
West Ham lead and it’s no more than they deserve. It’s another pull-back from the byline, this time from Ryan Fredericks. Lanzini sweeps the ball into the bottom left-hand corner.
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Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Still looking for their first home goal of the season, Wolves have begun brightly against Spurs. Leander Dendoncker tries his luck but fails to open their account.
Our 7.45pm kick-offs are under way. And at Old Trafford, Jarrod Bowen has just taken the first shot in anger for West Ham. He was teed up by Andriy Yarmalenko but pulled a fairly tame effort wide of the wide upright.
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Manchester United v West Ham: The lesser-spotted Phil Jones is on the bench for Manchester United, the defender having been, by his own account, “to hell and back” in recent years with injury. Jones last played for Manchester United in January 2020 before succumbing to a knee injury, the latest in a long catalogue of misfortune to befall the 29-year-old.
“Thankfully, I see the light at the end of the tunnel now, and I’ve been back training, played a few behind-closed-doors games and I’m feeling really good at the minute,” he told Manchester United’s website.
“It’s so good to be back out training with the lads and enjoying being a footballer again because for the last 15 months, it’s been all ‘daddy day care’ and not much football.
“I kept myself in great shape over lockdown and came back. But I remember just training out here [Carrington] and going into the doc and saying ‘enough is enough’. Unfortunately, there was going to be time off the pitch, which I knew was going to be difficult for me, but it was something that I had to do.
“Obviously, I’ve been through hell and back over the last couple of years. I struggled with my knee a little bit and [there] came a point after lockdown where I thought enough was enough.”
Brighton v Swansea City: The Angry Birds Derby is underway at the Amex Stadium in Falmer, where the Seagulls are hosting the Swans. It’s kicked off 15 minutes earlier than the rest of this evening’s fixtures but there’s nothing of note to report so far.
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Wolves v Tottenham Hotspur line-ups
Wolverhampton: Ruddy, Kilman, Boly, Mosquera, Hoever, Dendoncker, Neves, Ait Nouri, Daniel Podence, Silva, Hwang.
Subs: Jimenez, Trincao, Coady, Nelson Semedo, Joao Moutinho, Traore, Moulden.
Tottenham Hotspur: Gollini, Sanchez, Tanganga, Romero, Davies, Ndombele, Skipp, Lo Celso, Gil Salvatierra, Alli, Kane.
Subs: Doherty, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Son, Rodon, Austin, Scarlett.
Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside)
Brighton v Swansea City line-ups
Brighton: Steele, Lamptey, Turns, Roberts, Burn, Alzate, Moder, Mwepu, Mac Allister, Connolly, Richards.
Subs: Gross, Scherpen, Locadia, Leonard, Furlong, Offiah, Sarmiento.
Swansea: Benda, Latibeaudiere, Cabango, Cooper, Rhys Williams, Bidwell, Fulton, Walsh, Smith, Tarrelle Whittaker, Cullen.
Subs: Manning, Downes, Piroe, Rushesha, Dhanda, Webb, Laird.
Referee: Michael Salisbury (Lancashire)
Chelsea v Aston Villa line-ups
Chelsea: Arrizabalaga, James, Chalobah, Sarr, Chilwell, Loftus-Cheek, Kante, Saul, Hudson-Odoi, Werner, Ziyech.
Subs: Thiago Silva, Lukaku, Bettinelli, Barkley, Mount, Havertz, Mbuyamba.
Aston Villa: Steer, Cash, Tuanzebe, Hause, Young, Nakamba, Sanson, Traore, Buendia, El Ghazi, Archer.
Subs: Konsa, Philogene-Bidace, Carney Chukwuemeka, Bogarde, Sinisalo, Aaron Ramsey, Caleb Chukwuemeka.
Referee: Graham Scott (Oxfordshire)
Ruben Loftus-Cheek makes his first start of the season as Chelsea make 10 changes. Kepa Arrizabalaga was the only player to keep his place from Sunday’s 3-0 Premier League win at Tottenham, with boss Thomas Tuchel rotating his resources almost to full extent. Cameron Archer starts up front for Villa, as Dean Smith made nine changes.
Millwall v Leicester City line-ups
Millwall: Long, Hutchinson, Murray Wallace, Cooper, Leonard, Pearce, Thompson, Mahoney, Mitchell, Evans, Bradshaw.
Subs: Smith, Malone, Saville, Bodvarsson, Afobe, Ballard, Bialkowski.
Leicester City: Ward, Amartey, Evans, Soyuncu, Thomas, Ndidi, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Lookman, Iheanacho, Albrighton.
Subs: Barnes, Maddison, Vestergaard, Castagne, Daka, Jakupovic, Soumare.
Referee: Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire)
Manchester United v West Ham line-ups
Man Utd: Henderson, Dalot, Lindelof, Bailly, Alex Telles, Mata, Matic, van de Beek, Sancho, Martial, Lingard.
Subs: Jones, Greenwood, Bruno Fernandes, Heaton, Wan Bissaka, Elanga, McTominay.
West Ham: Areola, Johnson, Dawson, Diop, Fredericks, Noble, Kral, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Masuaku, Bowen.
Subs: Zouma, Coufal, Fornals, Vlasic, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Randolph.
Referee: Jonathan Moss (County Durham)
Arsenal v AFC Wimbledon line-ups
Arsenal: Leno, Cedric, Holding, Pablo Mari, Tavares, Maitland-Niles, Thomas, Sambi Lokonga, Lacazette, Nketiah, Martinelli.
Subs: Saka, Smith-Rowe, Chambers, Elneny, Balogun, Kolasinac, Hein.
AFC Wimbledon: Tzanev, Guinness-Walker, Heneghan, Nightingale, Lawrence, Woodyard, Hartigan, Rudoni, Assal, McCormick, Palmer.
Subs: Csoka, Marsh, Alexander, Chislett, Mebude, Pressley, Oualah.
Referee: Jarred Gillett (Australia)
Brighton v Swansea City team news: Brighton manager Graham Potter makes 11 changes from the team that beat Leicester on Sunday. The Seagulls continued their impressive start to the season with a hard-fought win over Leicester, but the cup match also offered an opportunity for a first start for Tariq Lamptey since December. Swansea make nine changes from their recent 3-3 draw with Luton.
Wolves v Tottenham team news: Hwang Hee-chan makes his first Wolves start tonight. The striker is joined up front by Fabio Silva while Yerson Mosquera, the 20-year-old Colombian centre-back, makes his Wolves debut.
Pierluigi Gollini is named in goal for Spurs with skipper Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Bryan Gil also starting as Nuno Espirito Santo returns to his former club for the second time this season.
Wolves v Tottenham Hotspur: Nuno Espírito Santo says Tottenham have lost the “good feeling” from their better-than-expected start to the season as he lamented a raft of problems and questioned his team’s capacity to absorb setbacks. David Hytner reports.
Arsenal v AFC Wimbledon: Wimbledon are on the fringes of the League One play-off places after an impressive start but have this week shifted their focus to their visit to Arsenal in the Carabao Cup third round, writes Ben Fisher. If they score at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday there is a good chance it will stem from a set piece.
Last night’s results
- Brentford 7-0 Oldham
- Burnley 4-1 Rochdale
- Manchester City 6-1 Wycombe Wanderers
- Norwich City 0-3 Liverpool
- Preston 4-1 Cheltenham Town
- QPR 2-2 Everton (QPR win on pens)
- Sheffield United 2-2 Southampton (Southampton win on pens)
- Watford 1-3 Stoke City
- Wigan Athletic 0-2 Sunderland
- Fulham 0-0 Leeds United (Leeds win on pens)
Tonight's fixtures
- Brighton v Swansea City (7.30pm BST)
- Arsenal v AFC Wimbledon (7.45pm)
- Chelsea v Aston Villa (7.45pm)
- Manchester United v West Ham (7.45pm)
- Millwall v Leicester City (7.45pm)
- Wolves v Tottenham Hotspur (7.45pm)
Carabao Cup Round Three
Following last night’s Carabao Cup extravaganza, there are six remaining Round of 16 places in this season’s competition up for grabs. Nine of the 12 teams in action this evening are from the Premier League, while Swansea City, AFC Wimbledon and Millwall will be hoping to join their fellow EFL representatives Preston, QPR, Stoke and Sunderland in the last 16.
We’ll bring you team news, build-up, goal-flashes and word of any other major talking points as the evening’s action unfolds, so stay tuned ahead of the first of tonight’s matches between Brighton and Swansea City, which kicks off at 7.30pm (BST). We’ll also bring you news of the Round Four draw, which will be conducted after tonight’s matches by Harry Redknapp and Micah Richards at Potton Bowls Club in Sandy, Bedfordshire. How exotic!