The Carling Cup third-round draw

Brentford v Everton

Portsmouth v Leicester City

Stoke City v Fulham

Chelsea v Newcastle United

Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers

Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal

Milwall v Ipswich Town

Wolverhampton Wanderers v Notts County

Burnley v Bolton Wanderers

Birmingham City v MK Dons

Liverpool v Northampton Town

Sc**thorpe United v Manchester United

West Bromwich Albion v Manchester City

Sunderland v West ham United

Peterborough United v Swansea City

Wigan Athletic v Preston North End

Some got easy draws (ManU & Pool). We didn't, but should still win. Spurs against Arsenal will be a nice one.

Will be interesting match agaist Newcastle. We should win.

At least we got them at home, I'm sure from Ancellotti's perspective he would of like a lower side to play some of the younger players, but it is what it is.

At least we got them at home, I'm sure from Ancellotti's perspective he would of like a lower side to play some of the younger players, but it is what it is.

Hopefully he'll do so even though the oppositions tough. To play the regular starters is a complete waste of time and powers. Just field 3-4 youngsters plus a handful of back-up players.

Would have been nice to face an easier opponent so we could experiment with the starting 11. We should still field Kakuta, Bruma, Van Aanholt and boys in this game. If we lose, who cares. It's a mickeymouse cup anyways. We have lot of internationals, CL and FAcup on top of Prem so we should field a young team in this and look where it gets us.

This will probably (a few token regulars aside) be a battle of the youngsters between both teams. Hopefully our Under-19 European Champion can take the barcodes down.

I expect newcastle will put their strongest team out,they really dont have enough depth in their squad to change it to much and their youth are knowhere near as good as ours.

should win,although as its the carling cup i wont be loosing any sleep if we dont

Thankfully it's at home. Think the last time we played them at St James' Park in the winter back in 04-05, we lost!

3:0 for Chelsea.

Expecting to see some youngsters get a chance in this one. I don't rate Carling Cup but it's still a trophy that can be won.

Kakuta, Sturridge, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Ramires etc should get to start in this one a long with Bosingwa to get his match fitness back.

I would play like this. Optional being Zhrikov replacing Aanholt or Kakuta.

------------------Turnbull

--Bosingwa--Alex--Bruma--Van Aanholt

--------------------Mikel

-------Benayoun-------Ramires

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Would love to see that to be fair.

Expecting to see some youngsters get a chance in this one. I don't rate Carling Cup but it's still a trophy that can be won.

Kakuta, Sturridge, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Ramires etc should get to start in this one a long with Bosingwa to get his match fitness back.

I would play like this. Optional being Zhrikov replacing Aanholt or Kakuta.

------------------Turnbull

--Bosingwa--Alex--Bruma--Van Aanholt

--------------------Mikel

-------Benayoun-------Ramires

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Would love to see that to be fair.

I fully agree with this. Carlo, copy/paste this to your laptop and use it!

It would be very nice to see this squad! :D

bring this formation to carlo, great formation.

we're fine...hoping for a couple of broken legs in the Spuds/Arse match....hahhahahahha

Hope some of the young boys gan get a run- of all the tourneys this is the one to experiment with

C'mmmonnnn Chelseaaaaa

Wrayman

Expecting to see some youngsters get a chance in this one. I don't rate Carling Cup but it's still a trophy that can be won.

Kakuta, Sturridge, Van Aanholt, Bruma, Ramires etc should get to start in this one a long with Bosingwa to get his match fitness back.

I would play like this. Optional being Zhrikov replacing Aanholt or Kakuta.

------------------Turnbull

--Bosingwa--Alex--Bruma--Van Aanholt

--------------------Mikel

-------Benayoun-------Ramires

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Would love to see that to be fair.

great line up only change maybe

------------------Turnbull

--Bosingwa--Alex--Bruma--Van Aanholt

--------------------Ramires

-------Benayoun-------Zhirkov

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Looking forward to the game

great line up only change maybe

------------------Turnbull

--Bosingwa--Alex--Bruma--Van Aanholt

--------------------Ramires

-------Benayoun-------Zhirkov

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Looking forward to the game

I'd love to see that team but i'm not sure there will be so many wholesale changes...

This was the line-up Carlo used against Blackburn last season:

Hilario, Belletti, Ivanovic, Paulo Ferreira, Zhirkov, Mikel, Ballack, Deco, Joe Cole, Kalou, Malouda.

Thats a really experienced line-up with the likes of Bruma, Kakuta, Matic etc on the bench. I'm hoping that was because of the pressure of winning a trophy in his first season, but i have a feeling that " We win every competition we enter" is the general philosophy with Carlo

Is this gonna be on Sky?

Is this gonna be on Sky?

No, on the ground at the Bridge. :D

--------------- Hilario -----------------

----Ferriera- -- Bruma Ivanovic ---- Zhirkov

--------------------Ramires

-------McEachran-------Benayoun

----Kalou---------------------Kakuta

----------------Sturridge

Lampard, Essien, Anelka etc on the bench

No, on the ground at the Bridge. :D

:D

No, on the ground at the Bridge. :D

ha ha I walked right into that one :D

Is this game being televised? A mate I play five a side with is a Geordie and we are planning on going to the pub to watch it if it is on.

Is this game being televised? A mate I play five a side with is a Geordie and we are planning on going to the pub to watch it if it is on.

No, not on telly at all unfortunately.

Come on Carlo play the kids, you know you want to!