Carabao Cup draw live: Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle and Palace learn quarter-final opponents
Manchester City, Brentford, Fulham and Cardiff City are also in the quarter-final draw, but Premier League champions Liverpool were knocked out at Anfield tonight
Premier League leaders Arsenal will play Crystal Palace in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup after Oliver Glasner’s side knocked out Liverpool in the fourth round.
Palace thumped the league champions 3-0 as Arne Slot’s heavily rotated side found themselves outplayed at Anfield, in what was Liverpool’s sixth defeat in seven games.
League One Cardiff City, the only side left in the competition from outside the Premier League, will host Chelsea, Manchester City will entertain Brentford, while Newcastle United will take on Fulham at St James’ Park.
The quarter-final fixtures are set to take place during the week commencing Monday 15 December with most matches kicking off on the evening of Tuesday 16 December or Wednesday 17 December.
Carabao Cup draw in full
So here is the quarter-final line-up:
Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Cardiff City v Chelsea
Man City v Brentford
Newcastle United v Fulham
Arne Slot stands by team selection
So, another disappointing night for Liverpool but Arne Slot stood by his team selection after the game.
The Reds boss made 10 changes and left star players out of the squad, leading to a sixth defeat in seven matches as Palace won 3-0 but does not regret his choice to prioritise the upcoming run of fixtures.
“It’s always a blow to lose a game of football, especially if it leads to going out of a competition,” explained Slot. “But it’s the same selection I did tonight as I did last season in rounds like this.
“There are many reasons maybe why we’ve lost six out of seven. None of them are good enough to accept losing so many.
“I can come up with arguments or reasons but none of them will be enough to go to that standard because at Liverpool losing five out of six, six out of seven is always too much.
“In two days we play Villa. The last time I played a player that we thought was ready for that programme, it turned out maybe that he wasn’t. It was Alexander Isak when he went out with an injury.”
Slot’s gamble fails miserably as Palace do three-peat over Liverpool
Another humbling evening for Liverpool as they were blitzed by Crystal Palace and Richard Jolly was at Anfield to watch it all unfold.
Here’s the full report:
Arne Slot’s gamble fails miserably as Crystal Palace do the three-peat over Liverpool
Arteta: 'Nwaneri took his chance'
Mikel Arteta was pleased to see Ethan Nwaneri on the scoresheet: "Really good and he came on the other day as well and he's going to have those chances and when he has, he needs to make the most out of it. I think he took the goal really well."
Frank blames referee for boot incident
Tottenham fell behind at Newcastle with 24 minutes gone when Fabian Schar met Sandro Tonali's corner – which was delayed by Djed Spence tying his bootlaces – with a firm downward header, prompting ultimately futile protests from the visitors that the defender had not been allowed to get back into position.
"Always disappointing to lose, always disappointing to go out of the tournament that we would love to progress in,” the Spurs manager said.
"Small margins decided the game tonight - it was a very even game with chances and situations in both boxes. The two goals were also small margins where there was two mistakes.
"One [mistake] unfortunately from [referee] Chris Kavanagh, in terms of things you need to give. Djed Spence had his boot off - he needs time to tie his boot and he didn't. His marker, Schar, scored. I have spoken to Chris about it, and we will keep that between Chris and I."
Maresca fumes with Delap over red card
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca accused Liam Delap of being selfish after receiving a "stupid" and "embarrassing" red card in the Carabao Cup victory over Wolves.
Delap was dismissed in the 4-3 success at Molineux after picking up two yellow cards in seven minutes after coming on as a substitute for his first appearance since August.
The first booking was for wrestling Yerson Mosquera to the ground and his second came after a reckless aerial challenge with Emmanuel Agbadou.
It was Chelsea's sixth red card in nine games this season and the Italian was unhappy with his striker, who will now miss the weekend clash with Tottenham.
"For today we have a very a stupid red card, that was completely unnecessary, absolute it was a stupid foul, we can avoid that," Maresca said.
"I completely support and understand the red card like against Brighton and Manchester United that is difficult, but the red card against Nottingham and a red card today we can avoid that and we have to avoid that.
"It's embarrassing when it is a red card like today. It's embarrassing, two yellow cards in seven minutes. Both I think we can avoid.
"After the first yellow card I told him to four or five times 'keep calm', but he's a player when he is inside the pitch, probably he is playing the game for himself and he struggled to realise and to listen around him."
Arsenal keep another clean sheet
Arsenal’s defence has been breached just three times in 14 matches across all competitions so far.
Arteta said: "We were struggling in the first half. I expected that when you make 10 changes and you have players that have never played before and some of them haven't played much this season.
"You have to gamble. But I was ready to take that risk and in the second half, we needed to start in a different way and we certainly did that and the game shifted momentum."
Arteta hails debutant Dowman
Mikel Arteta lauded Max Dowman's "special" performance as the 15-year-old rewrote history by becoming Arsenal's youngest-ever starter in his side's Carabao Cup victory against Brighton.
Ethan Nwaneri and Bukayo Saka - who replaced Dowman with 20 minutes remaining - struck in the second half as Arsenal secured a 2-0 win at the Emirates to book their place in the fifth round and a home tie against Crystal Palace.
But it was Dowman, still two months and two days shy of his 16th birthday, who stole the show and was afforded a standing ovation as he departed the pitch.
"A tiny smile, that's what you get with him," said Arteta when asked how Dowman reacted when he told him he was starting.
"For him everything is natural, for him everything is OK. It's the way he plays and that's the secret, that he doesn't make a big fuss of it.
"He just does what he does best, which is to play football. To play football with a lot of courage and determination and today again, he has shown some incredible skill, some capacity to run past players at that level in the Premier League at 15. It's definitely something special."
City come through close encounter
Manchester City overcame a Carabao Cup scare to book their quarter-final place with a 3-1 win at Swansea.
Goncalo Franco had fired the Championship outfit ahead with the game's first goal attempt after 12 minutes but City equalised before half-time as Jeremy Doku's effort took a wicked deflection.
Swansea had to soak up intense pressure but, without the absent Erling Haaland, City largely fired blanks until Omar Marmoush blasted them ahead after 77 minutes.
Rayan Cherki confirmed victory in stoppage time by rolling the ball inside Andy Fisher's far post, finally ending Swansea hopes of repeating their third-round victory over Nottingham Forest.
Carabao Cup draw
Cardiff have been handed a dream home Carabao Cup quarter-final tie against Chelsea.
The League One club are the lowest ranked team left in the competition, having won 2-1 at Welsh rivals Wrexham on Tuesday night.
Chelsea came through 4-3 against Wolves at Molinuex, holding off a second-half fightback from the home side to secure their place in the last eight.
Elsewhere in the draw, holders Newcastle will be at home to Fulham.
Eddie Howe's side saw off Tottenham 2-0 at St James' Park on Wednesday night, while Fulham had edged past League One Wycombe on penalties on Tuesday evening.
Crystal Palace - who beat Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield - will head to Premier League leaders Arsenal.
The Gunners beat Brighton 2-0 on Wednesday night - and had battled to a 1-0 win over the Eagles on Sunday to keep themselves top of the table.
Manchester City, who came from behind to win 3-1 at Swansea, will be at home against Brentford.
The Bees coasted to a 5-0 victory at Grimsby on Tuesday night.
The quarter-final ties will take place in the week commencing December 15.
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