EFL Cup 2016/17

[Lineker]

Aston Villa have been drawn away against the League Two side Luton in the first round of the renamed EFL Cup.

Villa, relegated from the Premier League and under new manager Roberto Di Matteo, will travel to Kenilworth Road during the week commencing 8 August.

Newcastle and Norwich, also relegated from the top flight, have been handed byes into the second round as they were the highest-placed teams last season.

The EFL Cup, known as the Capital One Cup for the past four seasons, has been renamed as part of the English Football League’s rebranding, announced last November and which came into use at the end of last season.

Sheffield Wednesday, winners in 1991, will travel to League Two side Cambridge and 2013 finalists Bradford will play at Accrington. Fleetwood have a home tie against Leeds, relegated Doncaster will play four-times winners Nottingham Forest at the Keepmoat Stadium and Derby take on newly-promoted Grimsby at the iPro Stadium.

The two-times winners Wolves face Crawley at home and Jaap Stam’s Reading play Plymouth at the Madejski Stadium. Brighton face Colchester at the Amex Stadium, Swindon travel to Queen’s Park Rangers and Leyton Orient take on Fulham in a London derby at Brisbane Road.

Full draw:

Section One

Carlisle v Port Vale
Rotherham v Morecambe
Accrington v Bradford
Rochdale v Chesterfield
Mansfield v Blackburn
Barnsley v Northampton
Cambridge v Sheff Wed
Derby v Grimsby
Oldham v Wigan
Scunthorpe v Notts County
Doncaster v N Forest
Burton v Bury
Fleetwood v Leeds
Sheff Utd v Crewe
Shrewsbury v Huddersfield
Preston v Hartlepool
Blackpool v Bolton

Section Two

Peterborough v AFC Wimbledon
Bristol Rovers v Cardiff
Coventry v Portsmouth
Luton v Aston Villa
Brighton v Colchester
Cheltenham v Charlton
Birmingham v Oxford
Southend v Gillingham
Wolves v Crawley
Leyton Orient v Fulham
Ipswich v Stevenage
Wycombe v Bristol City
Walsall v Yeovil
Exeter v Brentford
QPR v Swindon
Barnet v Millwall
Reading v Plymouth
Newport v MK Dons

[GA!]

My brother lives in Derby so I'm very happy with this draw.

[METALMAN]

what on Earth is the EFL Cup?

[FestiveJack]

The competition formerly known as the Littlewoods Challenge Cup.

[Lineker]

what on Earth is the EFL Cup?

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The EFL Cup, known as the Capital One Cup for the past four seasons, has been renamed as part of the English Football League’s rebranding, announced last November and which came into use at the end of last season.

 

 

 

 

[METALMAN]

How vulgar. Still, no sponsor, so that's an improvement.

[DavidMarrio]

EFL sounds like some far right political group. 

[METALMAN]

English as a Foreign Language

WELL IT BLOODY IS NOW, ISN'T IT

[MDK]

Sorry Liam, you'll have to win it next year

[GA!]

If I #VoteLeave, does that mean Cardiff and Newport are booted out of the EFL?

[MDK]

Just now, GA! said:

If I #VoteLeave, does that mean Cardiff and Newport are booted out of the EFL?

Bloody foreigners coming over here and stealing our EFL places

[GA!]

#TightenEFLBorderControl

[Lineker]

Ben Kennedy scored the only goal as League Two Stevenage shocked the Championship side Ipswich with a 1-0 EFL Cup win at Portman Road. Kennedy was quickest to react after Dean Gerken could only parry a deflected shot from Charlie Lee eight minutes after the interval.

There was another victory for a League Two side over a Championship opponent thanks to Luke Berry’s extra-time goal for Cambridge United against Sheffield Wednesday. With the tie looking to be heading for penalties at 1-1, Berry popped up to fire home the winner in the 118th minute.

Jack Dunn scored a hat-trick for Morecambe as the Championship side Rotherham were sent packing in an extra-time 5-4 defeat.

Ryan Harley scored in the 100th minute to give Exeter a 1-0 win over Brentford and Kevin van Veen struck twice in extra time to give Scunthorpe a 2-0 victory against Notts County.

The substitute Ryan Lowe scored both Crewe goals as they came from behind to beat Sheffield United 2-1 and Matthew Dolan scored from inside his own half as Yeovil sprang another shock by beating Walsall 2-0.

Northampton needed a John-Joe O’Toole header in extra-time to beat Barnsley 2-1 and Liam Sercombe was Oxford’s hero when he grabbed the winner in the 1-0 victory over Birmingham.

Coventry beat Portsmouth 3-2, Blackpool overcame Bolton 4-2 and Accrington beat Bradford 11-10 on penalties after the game had finished 0-0.

Louis Dodds struck the winner 13 minutes from time to earn Shrewsbury a 2-1 victory over Huddersfield. Ajay Leitch-Smith had given the Shrews a flying start with a first-minute opener. Elias Kachunga hauled Huddersfield level six minutes before the break but Dodds latched on to Ivan Toney’s ball to win the game.

Josh Law popped up with an 83rd-minute winner to send through with a 2-1 win over Wigan and Anthony Stokes took his goal tally for the season to three with two for Blackburn in their 3-1 win at Mansfield.

Eoin Doyle’s last-minute goal gave Preston a 1-0 triumph over Hartlepool and Tammy Abraham’s second goal in two games earned Bristol City a 1-0 win at Wycombe.

Conor Coady helped Wolves to a 2-1 victory over Crawley and first-half goals from Joey van den Berg and Roy Beerens gave Reading a 2-0 win over Plymouth.

Cauley Woodrow scored twice to help Fulham to a 3-2 win at Leyton Orient and Jamie Murphy also scored twice as Brighton eased past Colchester 4-0.

Richard Keogh gave Derby a 1-0 victory over Grimsby, Millwall safely progressed to the second round after a 4-0 win at Barnet and Jamie Ward’s stoppage-time winner helped Nottingham Forest to a 2-1 triumph at Doncaster.

There were also wins for MK Dons, Peterborough, Gillingham, Rochdale, Carlisle and Cheltenham.

Luton vs. Aston Villa is the TV game tonight.

[DavidMarrio]

Super sub Jack Dunn!!! Can't wait for him to be released from us in two years time. 

Is the 2nd round draw on Saturday? I know our request for the game to be an away trip has been accepted so we have extra time to finish the main stand off. 

[Lineker]

I'd have thought that it will either be in tonight's programme after Luton/Villa, or during tomorrow's Bristol Rovers/Cardiff tie. Could be completely wrong though.

[Colly]

Another upset on the cards here.

[Jimmy]

5 minutes ago, Colly said:

Another cupset on the cards here.

 

[Colly]

Fuck right off.

[MDK]

18 minutes ago, Colly said:

Fuck right off.

Don't get cupset about it

[Colly]

What does that have to do with anything?

Draw is tonight on SSN, presumably after the last 3 games finish.