EFL CUP - Round One Thread

[JJ1532]

Well, who's ready for another fun round of League Cup action? Looking forward to your teams game, or just a distraction from the league? Expecting any changes from Saturday? I'd imagine anyone who won on Saturday will want to make it 2 out of 2 and anyone who didn't will want to try and get their first win.

Here are all the fixtures for the teams in League Two:

Tuesday 8th August
Accrington Stanley v Preston North End
Barnsley v Morecambe
Birmingham City v Crawley Town
Bristol Rovers v Cambridge United
Coventry City v Blackburn Rovers
Exeter City v Charlton Athletic
Fleetwood Town v Carlisle United
Forest Green Rovers v Milton Keynes Dons
Grimsby Town v Derby County
Luton Town v Ipswich Town
Mansfield Town v Rochdale
Millwall v Stevenage
Norwich City v Swindon Town
Oxford United v Cheltenham Town
Peterborough United v Barnet
Rotherham United v Lincoln City
Scunthorpe United v Notts County
Sheffield Wednesday v Chesterfield
Southend United v Newport County
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Yeovil Town
Wycombe Wanderers v Fulham

Wednesday 9th August
Colchester United v Aston Villa
Crewe Alexandra v Bolton Wanderers
Leeds United v Port Vale

 

[valefan16]

Leeds Away is about as good as we could get and is a free hit, I'd rest a few of the older players as Wycombe Saturday is more important realistically. If it was at Vale I'd always fancy an upset but can't see it away from home.

 

[oakroader]

Only a distraction until you win it....
90,000 people at Wembley
David beats Goliath
Got the tattoo,got the t shirt,
Been there done that ....

 

[Kenneth E End]

Supposedly Ipswich will change most if not their entire XI from yesterday. That's what Mick McCarthy tends to do apparently.

I think we'll make some changes too:

James Shea; Jack Stacey, Jack Senior, Johnny Mullins, Scott Cuthbert; Glen Rea, Pelly Ruddock, Luke Gambin, Jordan Cook; Isaac Vassell, Elliot Lee
Subs: Harry Isted, Alan Sheehan, Akin Famewo, Olly Lee, Tyreeq Bakinson, Andrew Shinnie, James Collins

 

[GTFCfish]

I was looking forward to Derby at home but I've switched onto nights now so can no longer do night games, which is shit.

 

[BeesKnees]

Will give Peterborough away a miss. Expect us to rest a few plus jack Taylor suspended. Would be nice if Weston and Brindley are fit enough to get some minutes before we face the mighty Luton next weekend

 

[PaulHaddock]

Shit tie for us, high chance we'll go out, not many fans from either side turning up. A rematch of last years fixture would've been better!

 

[oakroader]

Will give Peterborough away a miss. Expect us to rest a few plus jack Taylor suspended. Would be nice if Weston and Brindley are fit enough to get some minutes before we face the mighty Luton next weekend

Be afraid...be very afraid....

 

[Conker]

Rochdale at home, even though it's the start of the season I think I'll hold off till FGR at home in the league next Saturday.

 

[cufc17]

Tough game away to Fleetwood, can't see us progressing even though our recent record in cups is decent.

5 injuries already so it'll have to be a full strength team, let's hope we pull through with no new injuries.

 

[shoddycollins]

We don't need this game. Only a few days into the season and we're already down to 15 fit senior players, also I really don't like playing Fleetwood, though we've never played them in the league, we keep coming up against them in cup competitions.

 

[Luke Imp]

Obviously a toughie at Rotherham.

We might see one or two changes but I can't see us changing 5 or 6.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Fully expect Adam Armstrong and/or Gary Madine to rip our defence to shreds and there's no shame in that given the gulf in leagues. Bolton win.

 

[Indian Dan]

Away at Norwich. Should be a decent game, that. Valiant defeat beckons.

 

[Posh Harry]

Shit tie for us, high chance we'll go out, not many fans from either side turning up. A rematch of last years fixture would've been better!

The first competitive game of the season is at home to a big championship club and it's a shit tie? Jeez, have you forgotten about playing Hayes & Yeading, Guisley and Coalville already

 

[GTFCfish]

Shit tie for us, high chance we'll go out, not many fans from either side turning up. A rematch of last years fixture would've been better!

I think there'll be a decent gate for this after Saturdays result and it being our first at home, and Derby will still bring a decent amount even though they don't really give a shit about it.

 

[Si Robin]

Shit tie for us, high chance we'll go out, not many fans from either side turning up.

Same for us.

 

[North_Cheshire_Alex]

Depends on how many changes Bolton make, if they rotate players to keep them fresh for the next Championship match then I think we may just nick it, 2-1 to the Alex.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Seems like both us and Ipswich will make changes. Good thing as I remember us entering ourselves to beat Villa and then subsequently looking very tired in our following league fixture, same thing happened after the Leeds defeat in the next round too.

Be interesting to see the difference i quality from our first choice 11 to some of the bench players coming in, I know the score meant we probably weren't playing to our fullest but there was a very noticeable drop off in quality when McCormack went off and Rea played the holding role that impacted the rest of the midfield. Given McCormack will need careful management this season it will likely mean someone will need to get signifiacnt minutes there it will be interesting to see if Rea can step up and make that drop off in quality a bit smaller (assuming he plays there of course)

 

[Moomin]

Home to Charlton which is winnable especially if they make a number of changes.

Personally I'd like us to switch around a few players with a tough game at Swindon this Saturday. Perhaps bring in Holmes, Harley, Croll and rest Reid, Taylor and JMT.

 

[shoddycollins]

The first competitive game of the season is at home to a big championship club and it's a shit tie? Jeez, have you forgotten about playing Hayes & Yeading, Guisley and Coalville already

Have you forgotten about playing Chesterfield already?

 

[CFC91]

Sheffield Wednesday away for us. Nice and local and should be 2000 odd travelling but definitely not expecting anything. First game of the proper season for me, got afternoon so having a few beers up Sheffield. If we get through it'll be a suprise, much rather win at County on Saturday.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

Blackburn at home and I would definitely take a valiant loss.
Bit of extra spice is that it's against Tony Mowbray, the man who laid the foundation for the worst season in our history, his summer recruitment last year was scandalous, so some skybluers want to put one over him big time

 

[Like a Glove]

I dread to think what Wolves will do to us.

 

[Tom_CUFC]

Bristol Rovers away was the one tie I said I wouldn't bother with an lo and behold that's who we got, so I'll be giving this one a swerve. I'd hope we make a few changes but you could argue that on both sides of the ball we need to get some game time into whatever we think our first choice options are as they looked pretty disorganised/lacking in creativity on Saturday, so difficult one to call.

Expect us to lose but we've given a good fist of it against better opposition in this competition since we got promoted so you never know.

 

[Grecian O'Grecian]

Home to Charlton which is winnable especially if they make a number of changes.

Personally I'd like us to switch around a few players with a tough game at Swindon this Saturday. Perhaps bring in Holmes, Harley, Croll and rest Reid, Taylor and JMT.

Suspect we'll see a few changes. Maybe even a debut for out latest 16 year old wonderkid...

 

[The Jovial Forester]

MK Dons at home is almost winnable even though we won't. Quick scan of one of their forums suggests they're still not firing on all cylinders.

 

[mowgli]

One of the toughest draws getting Fulham even though we're at home,keep if they play their first team losingby 2 goals wouldn't be an embarrassment.

 

[shoddycollins]

Blackburn at home and I would definitely take a valiant loss.
Bit of extra spice is that it's against Tony Mowbray, the man who laid the foundation for the worst season in our history, his summer recruitment last year was scandalous, so some skybluers want to put one over him big time

I can definitely see you winning, assuming Rovers don't rate this competition too highly because they fancy themselves to run away with the League One title, if they approach it the same way they did our friendly against them the other week then you should win quite comfortably.

 

[Chris FGR]

MK Dons at home is almost winnable even though we won't. Quick scan of one of their forums suggests they're still not firing on all cylinders.

What with it being at home think we have a chance, especially if MK make changes.