AFTER A DELAY of over 100 minutes – incidentally, enough time to have played at least normal time in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals – the eight remaining clubs discovered their opponents by way of a pre-recorded video uploaded by the competition’s Twitter account.
The remaining ‘big four’ managed to avoid each other in an inadvertent, behind-closed-doors draw, which will see Chelsea host Bournemouth, a London derby between Arsenal and West Ham, Claude Puel’s Leicester take on Manchester City, and Championship club Bristol entertain Manchester United.
Here’s the draw in full:
The #CarabaoCup Round Five Draw has finally taken place. Take a look at the pre-recorded video and see who your team got. pic.twitter.com/g6Tl9IxseK
— Carabao Cup (@Carabao_Cup) October 26, 2017
Originally scheduled for 4pm UK time, the draw was delayed due to a technical glitch at Twitter HQ, meaning it couldn’t be live-streamed as intended.
The draw was therefore pre-recorded in full, and uploaded to Twitter only on its completion.
This latest shambles follows the botched first-round draw, which was streamed live to Facebook with no sound, and crashed as soon as the first team was drawn. Charlton Athletic were later drawn twice – both away to Exeter and at home to Cheltenham.
The second-round draw was less farcical but more confusing, as the introductions of geographical divisions and seedings left a host of clubs bewildered by proceedings, which on this occasion took place in the Sky Sports studio.
#CPFC 🦅 will face Ipswich Town AT HOME in the second round of the #CarabaoCup! 🏆
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) August 10, 2017
At home, @JohnSalako... 😅 pic.twitter.com/pUl4QiW9JH
#itfc have been handed an away tie (I think) against Crystal Palace in the second round of the Carabao Cup 🏆⚽️ pic.twitter.com/8eH9gAqvbd
— Ipswich Town FC (@Official_ITFC) August 10, 2017
The draw for round three was held in Beijing at 4am UK time, which naturally presented its own issues.
Carabao is Thailand’s second-most popular energy drink, and was announced as the title sponsor to the English league cup back in November.
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Bayern are a seriously good outfit, no obvious weaknesses in any positions,, they will take some beating and on tonight’s performance they could easily be crowned champions this year. Chelsea have gone backwards over the last few months, some serious investment needed in every department of the squad, they are a million miles away from competing with the best in the premier league and Europe.
@devils avacado: absolutly. I’d have them favourites and hope Liverpool don’t have to face them in the next round should they get through
@devils avacado: Mount got behind a few times, defence was caught flat footed at times. I’d say it will be a weakness against better opposition
@Tommy C: liverpool would make mince meat of their defense they let in to many goals
@Seamus Donnelly: we haven’t made mince meat of a defense since last year. What Liverpool has done is amazing but come champions league yo have to up it.
Chelsea are brutal
@InOleWeTrust: ahead of ye though:)
@john murray: we’ll see by the end of the season
@InOleWeTrust: pot , kettle etc.
Don’t watch chelsea much but tonight I either thought they’d play unreal and win 1-0 or 2-1 or just get smacked up 0-3. Really like lampard though, has got balls