carling cup football thread 22-23 *spoilers*

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Tues 22nd September

Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion
Bolton Wanderers v West ham United (8:00pm)
Barnsley v Burnley
Leeds United v Liverpool (LIVE ON SKY TV)
Sunderland v Birmingham City
Peterborough United v Newcastle United
Carlisle United v Portsmouth
Nottingham Forest v Blackburn Rovers
Stoke City v Blackpool
S****horpe United v Port Vale

Wed 23rd September

Chelsea v Queens Park Rangers
Hull City v Everton
Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers (LIVE ON SKY TV 8:00pm)
Manchester City v Fulham (8:00pm)
Preston North End v Tottenham Hotspur
Aston Villa v Cardiff City


Starting the thread really just to give myself an excuse to tell everyone I'm going to the emirates for the first time to watch the arsenal-west brom game and i'm really excited :D :D :D

Should be a good match as west brom look to be inform and apparently Vela is back for us.
 
Hopefully Leeds beat Pool tonight.

As for United, obvios reason's can see most player rested.

So most likely team line-up will be

----------- PIG --------

- Neville-- Evans -- Brown -- Fabio

- Nani -- Gibson -- Carrick -- Tosic

--------- Kiko ----- Owen ------


Wolves wont be arsed about this game. They too busy concentrating about relegation so a 3-1 win.
 
Nottingham Forest v Blackburn Rovers

Bit of a tricky one... Blackburn have lost 7 away games and Forest should have won at the weekend vs. Blackpool but just couldn't put the ball in the net.

Hopefully Billy gets his tactics right and we can get a result. Could do without a replay (if there is such an option?) as we've already got a packed schedule over the next 4 weeks.

I can't see us keeping a clean sheet so a 2-1 Forest win.
 
You're gonna upset Tummy posting this thread!

I've been getting lots of stick from my Wolves supporting mates about tomorrow, I even had 5 season tickets to go up until 8:30 this morning where I've been out-ranked by a Director :/

I love MU - Wolves games :D
 
Looking forward to the Man U v Wolves game. Hopefully we will give Zubar, Maierhofer and Milijas a run out. I am however, realistic, and dont really expect for us to get a decent result!

I would love to see Ebanks-Blake play and score though :D
 
I reckon Arsenal will start with something like

..................Szczesny.....................
Gilbert.....Silvestre......Senderos......Gibbs
........Ramsey.....Coquelin........Traore......
.....Wilshere............Watt..........Vela....

Hopefully be enough to see us past WBA
 
Wouldn't surprise me. Looks like Arsenal's will be more of a second-string side than a youth one this time. Senderos (hope he does well) and Silvestre (hope he spontaneously combusts) in defence, along with Vela and Ramsey, who are more bench-warmers than reserves/under-21s now.

Is Gilbert still with the club Furton? The last time I saw him was back when we had to fall back on using him in the league, and he ended up getting a couple of assists, to Henry! Figured he'd have long since been moved on.
 
Oh how it's changed, I remember Arsenal fans being in raptures over the signing of Silvestre, (getting one over on Fergie iirc) whilst MU were sitting there laughing their balls off.

:D
 
G|mp said:
There were plenty on here when they signed him.
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No, there wasn't, well we were all on here, bemoaning getting in a useless, barely plays, expensive waste of space instead of getting someone, you know decent.

Supposedly he's on around 40k a week aswell, if we'd given 40k extra a week to Flamini, he would have stayed, and been some use, aswell as not costing a transfer and signing fee :(

At the time I very much thought Fergie had got one over on Wenger, and that Wenger's dementia is clearly worsening.

Frankly with WBA playing so well at the moment, I'm not at all convinced we'll win, theres some real quality, but Vela's only just back from injury, Silvestre/Senderos haven't ever played together(AFAIK) and haven't got any match fitness.

Ramsey's the only player out of those whose first team quality and has played any minutes in the past month or two, which to me is very different to previous years of playing a mostly experienced(playing together) reserves side who play every week with 2-3 regulars added in for experience, like Gilberto/Toure/Denilson.

Its the weakest/strangest most disjointed side we've ever put out :(

Considering this and the FA cup are our only shot at silverware and a year where, well, we HAVE to win something to have any chance of Fabregas/Arshavin/Gallas/RVP etc etc actually wanting to stay rather than giving up, its madness to put out that kind of team.
 
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