{"id":598955,"date":"2021-08-11T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598955"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:22:14","slug":"carabao-cup-second-round-draw-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/11\/carabao-cup-second-round-draw-in-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup Second Round Draw in Full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early stages of the Carabao Cup often sees a number of clubs form the start of potential underdog stories. So far, the competition has seen exits for Northampton, Middlesbrough, Bradford City, Burton Albion, Sutton United and Charlton Athletic among others.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the likes of Cardiff City, Derby County, Wigan Athletic and Stoke City have gone through. The Second Round sees teams such as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/08\/five-managers-with-a-lot-to-prove-this-season-in-the-premier-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/31\/arsenal-everton-leicester-lewis-leigh\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/09\/newcastle-united-agree-joe-willock-fee\/\" target=\"_self\">Newcastle United<\/a> and Leeds United join the competition alongside Arsenal and other Premier League sides.<\/p>\n<p>The big question is, will we see Manchester City eventually take the crown once again? Or will another side impress? It would be perfect to see an underdog emerge from the pack and take the City crown. With Manchester City\u2019s squad, it will be difficult, but anything can happen in football. Let\u2019s face it, stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, however, sides must conquer the Second Round of the Carabao Cup, where there will be chance for upsets aplenty. Could this be the beginning of a great story?<\/p>\n<h2>Carabao Cup Second Round Draw in Full<\/h2>\n<h3>Northern Section<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>Oldham Athletic v Accrington Stanley<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle United v Burnley<\/p>\n<p>Wigan Athletic v Bolton Wanderers<\/p>\n<p>Huddersfield Town v Everton<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United v Derby County<\/p>\n<p>Stoke City v Doncaster Rovers<\/p>\n<p>Shrewsbury Town v Rochdale<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest v Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/p>\n<p>Morecambe v Preston North End<\/p>\n<p>Blackpool v Sunderland<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United v Crew Alexandra<\/p>\n<p>Barrow v Aston Villa<\/p>\n<h3>Southern Section<\/h3>\n<p>Brentford v Forest Green Rovers<\/p>\n<p>Millwall v Cambridge United<\/p>\n<p>West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal<\/p>\n<p>Norwich City v Bournemouth<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff City v Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham v Fulham<\/p>\n<p>Gillingham v Cheltenham Town<\/p>\n<p>Queens Park Rangers v Oxford United<\/p>\n<p>Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle<\/p>\n<p>Stevenage v Wycombe Wanderers<\/p>\n<p>Newport County v Southampton<\/p>\n<p>Northampton Town v AFC Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>Watford v Crystal Palace<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"tgjJM3syRnROkyX0uEeg1w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1232526358\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'tgjJM3syRnROkyX0uEeg1w',sig:'Rw3aDrkdOgZRF9X_TbHdCBHdF5rAPpk8bJsfbLqj34A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232526358',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early stages of the Carabao Cup often sees a number of clubs form the start of potential underdog stories. So far, the competition has seen exits for Northampton, Middlesbrough, Bradford City, Burton Albion, Sutton United and Charlton Athletic among others. Meanwhile, the likes of Cardiff City, Derby County, Wigan Athletic and Stoke City have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":598956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-news","category-premier-league"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}