Carabao Cup

[Shaggy]

****ing standard draw for us

Lincoln City/Liverpool v Leicester City/Arsenal

[BigChief]

Ridiculous

[Mark79]

Best of luck to Barry Lewtas and the U23s

[Mr Pink]

Bring it on! Good exercise for Jones and co!

[Exiled_red]

Best of luck to Barry Lewtas and the U23s

But there's a place in the Europa Conference League up for grabs

[BigChief]

Just got excited by this again. Imagine the starting lineup against (likely) Arsenal:

Alisson
TAA Matip VvD Tsmikas
Wijnaldum Thiago Jones
Salah Minamino Jota

Wowsers!

[Mark79]

Just got excited by this again. Imagine the starting lineup against (likely) Arsenal:

Alisson
TAA Matip VvD Tsmikas
Wijnaldum Thiago Jones
Salah Minamino Jota

Wowsers!

Half of them will be playing Arsenal in the PL fixture on Monday night of the same week. They’ll not be playing in one this one too, with Villa on the Saturday.

[BigChief]

Half of them will be playing Arsenal in the PL fixture on Monday night of the same week. They’ll not be playing in one this one too, with Villa on the Saturday.

Just seen the fixtures, ridiculous. Still it hurts Arsenal more than us hopefully. Pretty much guarantees Auba will not be terrorising our right side so Neco can come in:

Alisson
Neco Matip Koumetia Tsimikas
Wijnaldum Thiago Jones
Origi Minamino Jota

[SB]

Just seen the fixtures, ridiculous. Still it hurts Arsenal more than us hopefully. Pretty much guarantees Auba will not be terrorising our right side so Neco can come in:

Alisson
Neco Matip Koumetia Tsimikas
Wijnaldum Thiago Jones
Origi Minamino Jota

That’s a risky looking back line that won’t have played together to put out against Arsenal. The rest looks solid though.

[BigChief]

That’s a risky looking back line that won’t have played together to put out against Arsenal. The rest looks solid though.

Yeah I'm not so confident with that myself and Arsenal annoyingly have a decent squad. They'll be playing the likes of Cedric, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Willock and maybe even Lacazette. VvD might need to hero it through these fixtures for us after all.

[S-RED]

Yeah I'm not so confident with that myself and Arsenal annoyingly have a decent squad. They'll be playing the likes of Cedric, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Willock and maybe even Lacazette. VvD might need to hero it through these fixtures for us after all.

Guendouzi, wont play
Lacazette may be sold by then
Cedric, Kolasinac are ****

think both teams will play kids TBH, no interest in this at all; to many games, too many completions in a short season. they will both want to bin this ASAP.

Arsenal desperately need Top 4 this season IMO

[SB]

Yeah I'm not so confident with that myself and Arsenal annoyingly have a decent squad. They'll be playing the likes of Cedric, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Willock and maybe even Lacazette. VvD might need to hero it through these fixtures for us after all.

An epic 5-4 win to our lads written all over it lol

[Exiled_red]

Yeah I'm not so confident with that myself and Arsenal annoyingly have a decent squad. They'll be playing the likes of Cedric, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Willock and maybe even Lacazette. VvD might need to hero it through these fixtures for us after all.

Play the squad players and kids, not fussed about this competition, with a condensed season going out of this early could be a blessing, but I would prefer it if none of the players who play the weekend before or after this game started.

[SB]

This competition & I suppose the FA Cup will be the only chance other than training for some of the fringe players to get a look in. So for that reason alone I hope we progress a few rounds at least.

[Mr Pink]

This competition & I suppose the FA Cup will be the only chance other than training for some of the fringe players to get a look in. So for that reason alone I hope we progress a few rounds at least.

For the likes of Jones etc, the cups could be perfect for their development this year. He might get a few 20 minute cameo appearances in the league/Champions league, but he can expect to start in the cups, so I’d like to see us go far in both.