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League Cup 3rd Round: As It Happened

• League Cup 3rd Round: As It Happened

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 20:42

  And here are the half-times. Watford looking most likely to pull off a giant-killing at this stage.
  
  Plenty of goals though.
  
  Aston Villa 0-1 Tottenham
  Burnley 1-1 Nottm Forest
  Hull 0-0 Huddersfield
  Leicester 0-1 Derby
  Man City 1-0 Wigan
  Southampton 1-0 Bristol City
  Sunderland 1-0 Peterborough
  Swindon 0-2 Chelsea
  Watford 1-0 Norwich
  West Ham 2-1 Cardiff
  Fulham 0-1 Everton
  

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:01

  Back underway, with John Terry on for Chelsea and Yaya Toure replacing Fernandinho for City. Depth.

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  carl1984 > 24/09/2013, 21:01

  I live in Norwich and there is a lot of talk of Hughton going in the very near future but the hope is that he is retained in the club as a first team coach and someone brought in to manage the team as he is a great coach but management is not his strong suit. Not surprised to see them losing tonight, Watford are a good team who are getting back to form and Norwich struggle to creat enough chances in my opinion
  

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  2-0 Spurs now and 2-0 Watford, looks like Lamberts current and old club are going out tonight, doubt either will be too fussed, survival is there number 1 aim, perhaps more than that in Villa's case but there is little to suggest they are more than a one man team tonight,

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:06

  Depends how they dress it up i think. They could probably get away with bringing in a director of football but a new manager with Hughton as a coach probably isn't workable.
  
  With the signings they made over the summer I was expecting them to do well, but their form in all of 2013 has been pretty awful really.

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  carl1984 > 24/09/2013, 21:10

  Yeah it depends on Hughton's ego, he's a nice guy really and wants what is best for Norwich, I felt they would do better than they have, perhaps unlucky that Hooper was injured pre-season and hasn't got 100% fitness yet, he is their best goal threat on paper but they still lack creativity at times

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:16

  Stevan Jovetic has opened his City account and doubled their lead over Wigan in the process.
  
  And Hull are ahead against Huddersfield thanks to Nick Proschwitz.

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:18

  (24/09/2013, 21:10)carl1984 Wrote: Yeah it depends on Hughton's ego, he's a nice guy really and wants what is best for Norwich, I felt they would do better than they have, perhaps unlucky that Hooper was injured pre-season and hasn't got 100% fitness yet, he is their best goal threat on paper but they still lack creativity at times

  
  I'd have thought van Wolfswinkel would have done more too. Fer and Redmond should be able to provide a bit of creativity too. Still early days though, hopefully they'll give him a bit of time to turn things round.

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:19

  Martin Jol's been under a fair bit of pressure too.
  
  But Dimitar Berbatov has just eased it a bit with the equaliser against Everton.

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  carl1984 > 24/09/2013, 21:32

  I like Martin Jol, if only for his interviews where he names half of a dozen of his team with little else in between, but yeah is under pressure if things don't pick up. Fair play to Cardiff too, back to 2-1

• RE: League Cup 3rd Round: Tues 24th September

  StrumSolo > 24/09/2013, 21:32

  Impressive fightback from Cardiff, Peter Odemwingie makes it 2-2.
  
  Valentin Roberge (me neither) has put Sunderland 2-0 up and Norwich have pulled one back through Josh Murphy to make it 2-1 against Watford.
  
  3-0 to Man City thanks to Yaya Toure.
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