The Carabao Cup third round draw takes place tonight (Image: GETTY)
The remaining matches of the Carabao Cup second round take place tonight with Manchester United, Arsenal and the Premier League’s other clubs competing in Europe keenly waiting to find out who they will face in their third-round fixtures.
The top-flight’s seven clubs in European competition were all given a bye to round three. Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa are all in the Champions League.
While Manchester United and Tottenham are competing in the Europa League, with Chelsea in the Europa Conference League. The Blues are in Switzerland for the second leg of their play-off match tomorrow to confirm their spot in the group stages.
But before then, Chelsea – and their rivals – will be looking out for who they are paired with in tonight’s draw. The four Champions League and two Europa League clubs will not be able to play each other.
These draw conditions have been brought in to avoid fixture headaches. The Champions League group stages take place the week commencing September 16 while the Europa League groups start the week commencing September 23.
Tuesday night’s action saw five Premier League clubs book their spot in round three with more hopeful of joining them tonight.
Express Sport provides live coverage of the Carabao Cup third round draw below…
The 32 teams in the third round draw
Here’s every team in the pot…
1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Barnsley
4 Barrow
5 Blackpool
6 Bolton Wanderers
8 Chelsea
9 Coventry City
10 Crystal Palace
11 Everton
12 Fleetwood Town
13 Fulham
14 Leicester City
15 Leyton Orient
16 Liverpool
17 Manchester City
18 Manchester United
19 Preston North End
20 Queens Park Rangers
21 Sheffield Wednesday
22 Stoke City
23 Tottenham Hotspur
24 Walsall
25 Watford
26 AFC Wimbledon
27 Southampton
28 Brentford
29 Newcastle United
30 Wycombe Wanderers
31 West Ham United
32 Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Third round draw coming up
Now that’s over, we’ll have the Carabao Cup third round draw shortly.
Stick around.
Newcastle win 4-3 on penalties
Nottingham Forest are OUT of the Carabao Cup, losing 4-3 on penalties.
Ibrahim Sangare and Taiwo Awoniyi both missed for the hosts.
Sean Longstaff nets the decisive penalty and Newcastle are through.
Forest and Newcastle headed to penalties
We’re also headed to penalties in the Sky Sports match!
There’s no winner in the 90 minutes between Forest and Newcastle, which ends 1-1 at the City Ground.
So we’re headed to spot-kicks to decide the victor.
That means we might have to wait a little longer than originally planned to find out the third-round draw!
Ipswich knocked out
Ipswich are out! They lose 4-2 on penalties to Wimbledon.
Goalkeeper Owen Goodman saves from both Jack Taylor and Omari Hutchinson.
And then Omar Bugiel fires Wimbledon through.
Carabao Cup second round results
Wolves 2-0 Burnley
Wimbledon 2-2 Ipswich (gone to penalties)
West Ham 1-0 Bournemouth
Colchester 0-1 Brentford
Cardiff 3-5 Southampton
Swansea 0-1 Wycombe
LIVE: Nottingham Forest 1-1 Newcastle
Draw conditions explained
The EFL have explained how tonight’s draw will work…
“The round three draw consists of 32 clubs – 25 winners from round two with the seven Premier League Clubs in UEFA competitions also entering in this round.
“The UEFA Conference League, a competition Chelsea could be participating in, is due to begin in October and therefore has no impact on the Carabao Cup round three draw.
“For the main draw, two separate bowls will be utilised:
Bowl 1 – consisting of the six UCL and UEL Clubs
Bowl 2 – consisting of the remaining 26 Clubs
“A pre-draw will take place prior to Nottingham Forest’s round two fixture against Newcastle United to determine the home/away positioning of the six clubs in Bowl 1 for the first six ties of the main draw.
“The main draw will be conducted following the conclusion of the game at the City Ground.
“The first six ties will be drawn by alternating between one club from Bowl 1 and one club from Bowl 2, with the home/away positioning of the club from Bowl 1 already pre-determined in the earlier draw.
“Once the six clubs from Bowl 1 have been drawn, the remaining ten ties will be drawn from Bowl 2 only. From this round of the competition, the draw is no longer split into northern and southern sections.”
Carabao Cup draw ball numbers
And here are the ball numbers for tonight’s draw…
1 Arsenal
2 Aston Villa
3 Barnsley
4 Barrow
5 Blackpool
6 Bolton Wanderers
7 Brighton & Hove Albion
8 Chelsea
9 Coventry City
10 Crystal Palace
11 Everton
12 Fleetwood Town
13 Fulham
14 Leicester City
15 Leyton Orient
16 Liverpool
17 Manchester City
18 Manchester United
19 Preston North End
20 Queens Park Rangers
21 Sheffield Wednesday
22 Stoke City
23 Tottenham Hotspur
24 Walsall
25 Watford
26 AFC Wimbledon or Ipswich Town
27 Cardiff City or Southampton
28 Colchester United or Brentford
29 Nottingham Forest or Newcastle United
30 Swansea City or Wycombe Wanderers
31 West Ham United or AFC Bournemouth
32 Wolverhampton Wanderers or Burnley
Carabao Cup second round results so far
In case you missed any of them, these were the results in last night’s matches.
There were no Premier League casualties.
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Carabao Cup second round live scores
As it stands elsewhere tonight…
Wolves 2-0 Burnley
Wimbledon 2-1 Ipswich
West Ham 0-0 Bournemouth
Colchester 0-1 Brentford
Cardiff 3-3 Southampton
Swansea 0-1 Wycombe
Good evening!
Hello and welcome to Express Sport’s coverage of the Carabao Cup draw!
The third-round draw will not get underway before Nottingham Forest and Newcastle’s second-round match at the City Ground has concluded.
It’s currently 1-0 to the Magpies courtesy of Joe Willock’s 19-second opening goal.
There are also another six matches currently being played…
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1941580/Carabao-Cup-draw-LIVE-Man-Utd-Arsenal-Liverpool