Should we advance though, several Premier League clubs will be eliminated by the quarterfinals, thanks to that draw above, so that’s a positive.
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The footballing Gods were so enamoured by the first Manchester Derby with Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola at the helm, that they chose to add one more of this marquee clash to the calendar.
City, having won their first five league games under Guardiola to top the table, visit Swansea City for the second time in four days, after Guardiola’s side won 2-1 in a League Cup tie on Wednesday. We’ll be ready. See you soon, Canaries. MOT.
Meanwhile, Manchester United will make the trip to Sixfields Stadium on Wednesday to face Northampton Town in their EFL Cup 3rd round match.
United assistant Pep Clotet had hoped for a home tie after Tuesday’s win – and crossed his fingers for a clash with Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United. Before that they played in May this year and the game ended in a 1 – 1 draw. Then there’s Antonio Conte at Chelsea who is an unknown entity in the Premier League but has won the Serie A three times and the Supercoppa Italiana twice during his reign at Juventus.
The two sides’ last meeting in the League Cup came in 2008, when Rafa Benitez’s Reds lost 4-2 at White Hart Lane, with braces from Roman Pavlyuchenko and Fraizer Campbell consigning the Reds to defeat in the tournament’s fourth round. Although there were some great performances from Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Chambers, it’s never good to lose 3-4 at home on the opening day but we were short of defensive options as Chambers and Rob Holding (who also made his debut) were our centre-back pairing who had never played together before.
Hull, Everton and Stoke also went through after spot kicks at the expense of Leicester, Norwich and Chelsea respectively.
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“As a team we had control from the beginning”. Although, City’s new goalkeeper Claudio Bravo looks vulnerable in goal and has been criticised as such, any team who capitalises on that can beat City.
