Capital One Cup Thread

Quarter Final Draw

Derby County Vs Chelsea
Spurs Vs Newcastle
Bournemouth Vs Liverpool
Sheffield United Vs Southampton

Tough draw for us but home advantage will help. Stoke always play well here and can see this going to penalties.

Hopefully Rodgers will get the hang of cup competitions and with better squad depth give it a go, Middlesbrough should be beaten even if Rodgers plays a team like this:

4th round draw is in the OP

Tottenham away. Another ground to tick off the old list. Happy with that, but my wallet isn't impressed as we've got Bournemouth on the Friday night!

Why did you bother Paul Dummett

Aaronssssssssssssssss!

Shane Long finally scores for the Saints.

That's a penalty & red card. Stuart Atwell you f*****g tw**!

What a goal moussa. I'm dreaming boys, I'm dreaming

Pretty awful refereeing for that penalty decision, wasn't even a difficult one.

Pelligrini mightn't even last the season.

Well that's a stamp.

Wow, didn't see that one coming. Take a bow NUFC

Boring Spurs away for us

Draw in the OP.

I wouldn't complain John. Guaranteed a Semi Final spot

what's up with Newcastle winning matches all of a sudden?

Chelsea hot hot favourites now surely? Must say I thought Shrewsbury did a great job yesterday. Admittedly they had perfect conditions (very wet, slippery and an average pitch) and a referee who suited them (he had a perfectly good game, but a tendency to let things go), but they showed great pride, passion, were very well organised. The roar when they equalised was something else. Proper cup tie.

Derby away next up, I didn't watch any of Derby at Fulham, but any team who scores 5 in 20 minutes must be doing something right. Could be another very good game.

currently

Derby 0-2 Chelsea - Hazard & Felipe Luis Free Kick
Sheff Utd 1-0 Southampton

Derby 1-2 Chelsea

Buxton sent off for Derby. super harsh red card.

Hes a thug anyway

3-1 Schurrle.

my feeling on the red was that it's a foul. Initially it's six-of-one/half-a-dozen-of-the-other, but when Remy manages to nip in front Buxton pulls him back by putting an arm around his waist. However, by then the keeper had pretty much reached the ball, so don't think it's a red, maybe a yellow.

I liked the fact that Derby gave it a go and didn't just sit back and try to defend, they acquitted themselves well and scored a lovely goal, but Chelsea were too strong in the end. Hope injuries to Zouma and Drogba aren't too serious (Drogba seemed more of a precaution, but Zouma took a nasty bang).

season going t*ts up for southampton, embarrassing going out to Sheffied united

GSC wrote:Hes a thug anyway

Your just upset you lot never know how to deal with him

Shocking red card yesterday and the ref essentially killed the game off. Don't think it would have been the same if that would have been at the other end (Martin got dragged around by Terry at one point,)
Don't think it made too much difference though as Chelsea looked very good. Nice to see us give it a go and disagreed with Sky sports commentary.

Looking forward to the weekend now and back to the grind of the championship.

Well done to Sheff Utd, looks like Southampton's wheels have fallen off.

Good luck to the cherries tonight.

Sheff Utd, fair play to them. Semi final this season, semi final(think) of the fa cup last season.

Becoming a good old cup side.

Liverpool starting XI: Jones, Toure, Skrtel, Lovren, Henderson, Gerrard, Coutinho, Lallana, Lucas, Sterling, Markovic
Reds subs: Mignolet, Lambert, Sakho, Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Borini

Bournemouth starting XI: Boruc, Francis, Elphick, Cargill, Smith, Ritchie, O'Kane, Gosling, Stanislas, Kermorgant, Wilson
Cherries subs: Camp, Cook, Daniels, Arter, MacDonald, Fraser, Pitman

Scousers 2-0 Cherries - Sterling/Markovic
Spuds 1-0 Toon - Bentapleb

Gap in class pretty evident in the two TV matches, Premier league sides clinical, championship sides not

Markovic looking pretty decent now he's got a bit of confidence, glad the red card didn't affect him too much. Sakho is now back, wonder if he will help, my prediction is definitely not, liability at the back and not got a good passing range at all.

He can't be any worse than Lovren

I actually think he is. 

Sterling with some good finishing there.

Brad Jones is a joke

He is genuinely abysmal

I don't understand why pretty much every club in the Premier League has a better second choice goalkeeper than Brad Jones.

Riviere & Cabella are just embarrassing. Disappointing night, must bounce back vs Sunderland

Crimey wrote:I don't understand why pretty much every club in the Premier League has a better second choice goalkeeper than Brad Jones.

They all have a better first choice keeper than Mignolet too.

GSC wrote:

Crimey wrote:I don't understand why pretty much every club in the Premier League has a better second choice goalkeeper than Brad Jones.

They all have a better first choice keeper than Mignolet too.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Why the **** is Mike Williamson still at my club? Total embarrassment, that when he plays, we get absolutely annihilated. Alnwick is also a joke.

Semi final

Liverpool v Chelsea
Tottenham v Sheffield United

It was nice while it lasted...

Enjoyed that match, defensively still really vulnerable but was good to see the team playing with a bit of swagger going forward. No idea why Rodgers has dropped Mignolet now when Jones is his only back up, should have waited until January and then replaced him. Unfortunately I worry that this dropping of Mignolet is Rodgers' attempt at a cheap option instead of replacing him, just take him out of the firing line and put him back into the team later.

Because Mignolet had become so terrible that he had to see the bench just for credibility reasons

Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Gerrard, Moreno, Markovic, Coutinho, Sterling

Chelsea XI: Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Filipe Luis; Matic, Mikel; Willian, Fabregas, Hazard; Diego Costa

Pen to Chelsea

Scousers 0-1 Chelski - Hazard Pen

For goalkeepers that do homework, Hazard goes same way everytime yet all dive out the way...

Scousers 0-1 Chelski - HT

Scousers had a dubious ask of Handball it hit Costa on the floor.

it does hit Costa's arm, but given that he's lying on the floor from being unceremoniously bundled over by a Liverpool player I have limited sympathy.

Liverpool have done a very good job at stopping Chelsea from establishing their game. They've pressed hard and rushed Chelsea, but haven't really created enough themselves, and that very clumsy bit of defending from Cam means they have it all to do.

It's not a handball is it, is meant to stop having arms or something

Scousers 1-1 Chelski - Sterling

Mugged the lot off there...

Cahill has been a proper donkey this season

Gerrard off Lallana on

By Olly theory scousers should be better now...