OFFICIAL LEAGUE CUP SECOND ROUND THREAD

38 clubs battle it out tonight to decide 19 of the 25 that end up being drawn out of a hat in Beijing on Thursday at 4:15 in the morning. No, really.

The televised match could see imminent England representative Harry Maguire play at his first club Sheffield United with three time winners Leicester City. Elsewhere, 'arry Redknapp welcomes old club Bournemouth to St. Andrew's, there's a West London derby at Loftus Road with the Rs against the Bees, and the milk drinker's club of choice Accrington Stanley host hoofball's Tony Pulis.

All games kick off at 7:45pm unless stated.

>Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town (7:30pm)

>Accrington Stanley v West Bromwich Albion
>Aston Villa v Wigan Athletic
>Birmingham City v AFC Bournemouth
>Brighton & Hove Albion v Barnet
>Cardiff City v Burton Albion
>Carlisle United v Sunderland
>Doncaster Rovers v Hull City
>Fulham v Bristol Rovers
>Grimsby Town v Derby County (re-scheduled Round 1 fixture)
>Leeds United v Newport County
>Middlesbrough v Scunthorpe United
>Milton Keynes Dons v Swansea City
>Norwich City v Charlton Athletic
>Queens Park Rangers v Brentford
>Sheffield United v Leicester City (on Sky Sports Football)
>Watford v Bristol City

>Bolton Wanderers v Sheffield Wednesday (8:00pm)
>Reading v Millwall (8:00pm)

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>Hull playing actual children

Which match are you watching, Sup Forums?

only one match on tv lad

Going down the villa la

>when someone says they want Leicester to beat the Blades

>homophones or rapists

It's a tough choice desu.

I just hope both teams enjoy themselves

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What's gonna be the upset lads? I'm thinking Birmingham

Donny, surely.

Sheffield United, Birmingham or Ipswich

You think Birmingham might win?

Shit, I retardedly thought Hull were still a PL team.

Shoot me.

Scunthorpe United

Forgot bournememe were premier league

My lads against Brentford.

>my lads
Fuck off, Holloway.

Rude desu.

eddie howe plays absolutely dire teams in the cups, wouldn't be too surprised to see birmingham batter them

Christ, they haven't even considered many of the young lads pushed into the first team bench.

Last night we played 16 year old boys against a PL reserve team to fulfill the fixture, lost 6-0

>7 debuting players
>6 pro appearances across the whole squad
>average age is 20
>Brian Lenihan the experienced Captain of the side, with 1 appearance at 23 years old

Slutsky probably doesn't even know who half of them are.

Hope we get a massive fucking fine, EFL are feckless but they like that sort of thing.

Watford are a good shout, they never do that well in Cup competitions and Bristol City have been pretty strong so far.

Looks more like a line-up in the Checkatrade.

Only positive is it's experience for them. Except Weir of course because he was a bust on arrival. Won't be surprised if he doesn't feature in the league again.

>tfw we aren't starting at 1-0 up
We need UEFA rules in domestic matches about abandonments

>Bristol City have been pretty strong so far
they could be so much better with a competent manager in charge

Don't worry, Englands brave Keinan Davis will fuck Bristol up

Ipswich, good price too

Does anyone give a shit about this cup?

No.

Who /Donny/ here?

Donny Soldier?

BIG H RETURNS HOME:

Sheff Utd: Eastwood, Baldock, Wright, O'Connell, Freeman, Brooks, Carruthers, Lundstram, Lafferty, Lavery, Evans. Subs: Stevens, Basham, Thomas, Sharp, Coutts, Duffy, Blackman.

Leicester: Hamer, Amartey, Maguire, Fuchs, Chilwell, Musa, Ndidi, King, Gray, Ulloa, Slimani. Subs: Vardy, Albrighton, Jakupovic, Okazaki, Mendy, Mahrez, Knight.

Guide me to what will be the best match, bongs. I need to kill a few hours before bedtime. Will any be better than Napoli - Nice?

yep

Only one game is on TV.

>Lineker spends 5 minutes on MotD wanking off about how good Big Harry is, then another 5 minutes on how good Andy Robertson was for Liverpool
>"Makes you wonder how Hull managed to get relegated"

Like being stabbed in the heart

yes mike brown

>Milk Cup
>Littlewoods Cup
>Rumbelows Cup
>Coca Cola Cup
>Worthington Cup
>Carling Cup
>Capital One Cup
>Generic shit tasting energy drink #657 with something resembling a bull on the can Cup

Time to scrap this shit competition, it's overstayed its welcome for about 30 years.

It only got invented to make money to pay for floodlights anyway

They don't actually watch games, do they.

I only learned recently Carabao are a huge rock band in Thailand.

Are they named after the energy drink?

Bramall Lane packed to the rafters, should be a white hot atmosphere.

Both named after the animal

The energy drink is their product.

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So fucking annoyed at Grimsby

if it weren't for your shitty netto ground the reds would be playing tonight

It's only a bit of water for fuck sake you should be used to it by now considering most of what your town does is aquatic to some degree

>that

Your soon to be FOUR TIME League Cup Champions.

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No interest outside of their own ex-clubs whatsoever, other than a few piped lines of shitty analysis. Stealing a living.

>Sup Forums goes to their first football match

>there are people not listening to their match on their local radio

Phwoar, this is a blue board mate.

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Why aren't you at the game la. You could be experiencing the worst away end in football.

playing music during the game ffs tinpot

Aha, if only.

It's the anthem you plastic

Usually played before a ball is kicked

We aren't at Carlise

yes and they turned it on 10 secs into the game

>burnsy has gone full andrew neil on the club since

Tell me about sheffield, what is it like to live there?

5 bintangs

South west suburbs are really nice. Everywhere else is shit.

alot of council houses which all look exactley the same this nasty brown colour
centre is a concrete hellhole
big blue shopping mall
tram
pretty nice on the outskirts country side etc

how the shitting fuck is ahmed musa a professional footballer

Student city with a lot of chinese people about in the city centre

I've never been to Craven Cottage even close to sober, so whenever I see a picture of it I'm like, is that really what it looks like?

Blundell Park is genuinely even worse. You're in a corner, with about 20 pillars blocking your view and when the wind comes off the North Sea it's absurdly cold in there.

the same reason ade akinbiyi was

no fucker knows

Burnsy and his bin. Can't imagine the relief at being able to say what he wants now he's past the point of worrying.

Centre isn't too bad if you don't go beyond the bottom of fargate

In fiarness few away sections are good, why give your opponents a better place to sit than your own fans?

unless we get one of the top top teams in the cup im done with london away days

>Eddie Meme's Relegation Machine
JUST LOOK AT THAT DEFENDING

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING

fucking hell he's done the exact same thing again

At least it used to be, and still is at plenty of grounds, that you got one of the stands behind the goal.

Filling in the corners between stands was a mistake.

That Brooks kid looks decent

>Own goal
What the fug.

0-1
ffs should have gone

was out last night in sheffield

fucking horrible city

Leeds will forever be the superior Yorkshire city

Norwich are going down this season

Boycott this cup now!

Is there a single player for Leicester tonight who can actually control the ball

The Emptyside looking as packed as ever

>Leeds will forever be the superior Yorkshire city

get in villa x

yes but ahmed musa's complete inability to is probably distracting from it

They Musa had a lot in their minds

>LOSING TO FRANCHISE
>DUH SWUNZ

Leeds and Sheffield are both shite.

Should I apply for a master course or find a graduate job/scheme lads? Also I heard some master courses start at Jan is this true?

>Tfw I fell for the Engineering meme

Lester getting heemed

Well that didn't last long.

nobody hires student know it all cunts

If you can get in a decent masters program, that's an easy choice imo.

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Is this the Carabao Cup thread?

I-It's not over yet...

>OFFICIAL LEAGUE CUP SECOND ROUND THREAD

no

Small but comfy centre. The shopping is shit because Meadowhell was built and drained the life out of it in the 90s.

A couple of parts of the centre have been under reconstruction for over 10 years (right before the financial crash). Tories pulled money out on day 1 of Cameron's government. New buildings have only really appeared in the last year.

>council and police are corrupt as fuck.
>huge proportion of the city are students
>locals are very friendly and funny if a bit cynical.
>employment opportunities are absolute toss.
>South west of of the city is beautiful and incredibly rich, right next to the peak district
>South east is a lot of affordable suburbs
>North is a mass of council houses
>North east is where the pakis live and is incredibly depressing.