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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I think it’s hilarious all the hating on Robbie on this. People seem to forget he’s the only player we have who can nick a goal. Granted we have more technical strikers but it’s all about scoring and Robbie is the only source we have
Have a lot more time for Robbie than Roy, yet some people still slag Robbie and rubbish his achievements with Ireland while at the same time worshiping at the altar of Roy. Never in a million years will another Irishman ever score 66 goals for his country, and deep down we all know that.
Robbie never let us down.
To be honest I think we will be just fine without Robbie keane
If we don’t play Darren in goal, Sol won’t be happy!!
Good article but I’d have to disagree that spurs have used 4-4-2 effectively.
McGeady & McLean or Walters. Its the one position we have a few options
Walters is chronic
Forde
Coleman – Clark – O’Shea – Wilson
McCarthy – Reid – Meyler
McGeady – Long – McClean
Would be a good shout.
Randolph
O’Shea Dunne Wilson
Coleman Brady
Mccarthy Meyler
Reid
Long Keane
Brady will not play again this season so you’ll have to find someone else!
personally I think our best 11 is
Given
Coleman-Dunne-O’Shea-Brady
McCarthy-Gibson
McGeady-Hoolahan-Pilkington
Long
brady left back?! given back in nets?
randolph
coleman – oshea – wilson – delaney
mccarthy – meyler
mcgeady – hoolahan – brady
long
would be a good team for tomorrow night – our best team; im not sure what it is – but what its not
@Brendan, Brady has played left wing back for Hull for the past 2 and a bit seasons and it would be a good balance with Coleman at lb, after all Wilson is right footed so Brady would provide more delivery’s. And why not Given?hes shown in the past couple of months hes still well capable of producing great performance. Im all for Forde but his distribution can be rubbish at times
Delaney is back at his club!
… so is Brady!
I disagree that Hoolihan could only be accommodated in a 4-5-1. He could play in a 4-4-3 or a 4-2-3-1 which given the players currently available to Ireland might be the way forward. There are a few players out tomorrow with injuries but going forward my first choice Irish 11 would be
Forde
Coleman, Dunne, O’Shea, Wilson
Gibson, McCarthy
McGeady, Reid or Hoolihan, Brady
Long
I think that Pilkington could do a job on either side of the 3 as could Walters at a push.
That was meant to be 4-3-3* of course :) tho maybe we could sneak an extra player in, who knows
agreed, best looking line-up there, for the near future at least anyway.
As the article suggested, having McCarthy and Gibson sit in front of the back 4 would be great to utilize one of our best attacking options – right-back Coleman. McCarthy too has been excellent in that sitting position for Everton
Need to start playing Clark, as the only decent centre back we have under 30, the more international gametime he get the better.
Think we’d be better concentrating on the players actually available tomorrow rather than playing pie-in-the-sky selections for the future.
Hopefully it’s the last we see of Paul Green
Long up Front alone is just madness, where on earth are the goals going to come from.
Good player as part of a duo, but terrible goal scoring record at every level…..forget qualifying for anything with him up front alone.
Lewandovski is miles ahead of him.
Yeah and he plays for Poland so we ‘re fooked there boss!
I would like to see use play with wing backs with 3 in the centre of the park and 3 in the centre of defence. Has been utilised to good effect by the like of Hull and Villa recently, particularly when taking on the bigger teams giving you stability at the back and a chance to pack the midfield (both places we have struggled recently).