Charlton at home is a handy draw. We should ease into the semi finals of this one, which ought to give us a real shot at reaching the final. Added bonus of likely being able to rest a few key players in this game, or have them available from the bench.
Carabao Cup 2022/23
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I mean we still drew Villa and Everton in the earliest possible rounds in both domestic cups plus Barcelona in the Europa so it's not like our luck has totally changed.
But yeah getting Burnley and then Charlton is the sort of luck we haven't had in the cups for a long time.
True. Win = great success. Lose = Alcoholic Micky Mouse Cup.
Of course they will, this is their cup final.
Burnley was a potential banana skin which, I thought, we coped with pretty well, so not really luck. Some of the draws we had in the last 20 years have been really tough.
Finally getting the luck of the draw again. Its been a while. Would love ETH to win a trophy in season 1.
Shame that Pep (which i respect btw) wants ALL bloody trophies and don't play League cup with kids
Liverpool fans
True, let's lose them all so the guys can rest and clutch the 4th place. Trophies are for the ego anyway.
Liverpool fans
My girlfriend's dad and little brother went and got pelted. I'm more annoyed at the organisation... what did they think was going to happen putting the away fans there?!
We beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs, and should have demolished Chelsea in the first half alone. There is an argument to be made that Barcelona currently aren’t better than any of these teams (they’re definitely not better than Arsenal and Liverpool). Yes City are better than all the aforementioned sides, but it’s not like they’re unbeatable either. Haaland did us from a corner when Varane was off the pitch to make it 2-0 and Varane went off immediately afterwards - that caused the collapse.
Longstaff is such an annoying player.
Newcastle could be 3 up here, Sean longstaff got to score first minute, hopefully score early goal otherwise Leicester could grow in confidence and go up the park and score themselves.
Is the semis 2 legs still?
15-1 in attempts for the Arabs. How shite are Leicester?
City to get Newcastle next round and us to get forest/wolves.
How is Brendan Rodgers still there?
Bruno just wiped the ref out 
Maguire
Comfortable for United, credit to Charlton they were game but huge gulf in class.
Newcastle appear to have won the trophy tonight
3-0 United
Rashford with two goals in the 90th minute
Boy can’t miss at the moment
Rashford with two goals in the 90th minute
Boy can’t miss at the moment
Not gonna lie he has me kinda worried for the derby. Lewis is too young to deal with him, Walker half fit and Cancelo woefully out of form. Given Dias is off the boil this season too, I'm super worried about him running the channel between rb and rcb. When his confidence is up he usually doesn't miss either.
Its an interesting couple of weeks, if Spurs beat Arsenal and you win both the derby and Arsenal game or even take 4 points from both I'd say you guys have fought your way into the race. If you could get someone to share the goal burden with Rashford it'd be super interesting to see.
Semi-final draw tomorrow after games? It'll be so difficult for anyone to beat City over 2 legs.
We aren’t ready for this yet. Very early days. Ten Hag has had one window and we are very thin.
Less than 12 months ago we were dire and the majority of these players are still here and involved in the squad. EtH is also still learning what his squad can do and shaping it moving forward.
I really like what he’s getting out of Shaw, Dalot and Rashford though and he’s really integrated Garnacho beautifully. If we could snatch a cup this season and get CL football it would be a great start to his era.
If we had a top CF…
Very very shite. Can only think Leicester can’t afford to sack Rodgers at this point.
I'd agree with that, I think you struggle to put teams away a little but are super solid now. Adding Casemiro and Varane being over his injury issues seems to help. That said momentum can go along way and its hard to know if Arsenals nerve will hold. I'd still make us faves of course but we're really struggling to finish teams off too funny enough. (Chelsea yesterday aside).
We've been outta form since the Liverpool game and have only won in the league by more than 1 goal once in our last 6 matches. Not finishing teams off means results like the Everton one where they got a draw with an xg of 0.06 or losing at home to Brentford are more common than they should be. I can well see City finishing in the low to mid 80's for points.
Looks like united are gonna win their first major trophy in ages. Rashford is on fire.
Nice jinx attempt.
Still need to get passed either or both City and Newcastle.
It’s not going to be an easy trophy to win but fingers crossed for an easy draw tomorrow
It’s not going to be an easy trophy to win but fingers crossed for an easy draw tomorrow
We have to get it through De Bruyne and Rodri to even reach that area of the pitch
Will be interesting, I expect us to dominate the ball but if Bruno is on it, you guys can really exploit our high line. I think it'll be a closer game than many expect.
Southampton are going to be massacred this evening. No chance at all in this match
Nobody dominates the ball against us anymore. Our counter press is too good
May as well put their name in semi finals now
Poor little Southampton getting steam rolled.
We'll have at least 60%. Not that I think it will have a huge influence on the result.