{"id":599996,"date":"2021-08-25T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=599996"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:26:10","slug":"carabao-cup-third-round-draw-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/25\/carabao-cup-third-round-draw-in-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup Third Round Draw in Full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what was a much needed victory, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/23\/willian-corinthians-arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> eased past <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/06\/west-bromwich-albion-sam-johnstone\/\" target=\"_self\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> to reach the next round of the Carabao Cup in style. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will take most of the credit for the thumping 6-0 victory, having netted a fine hat-trick to round off an excellent return to action. Mikel Arteta will be breathing a sigh of relief after seeing his side pick up their first win and score their first goals of the season.<\/p>\n<p>West Bromwich Albion presented somewhat of a banana skin for a vulnerable Arsenal side, but, instead of slipping, the Gunners charged onwards and through to the next round. The manner of the defeat comes as no real shock when considering the team that\u00a0Val\u00e9rien Isma\u00ebl put out. The Baggies manager made 11 changes in total, clearly focusing on pursuing Championship promotion rather than an underdog cup run.<\/p>\n<p>Now through to the Third Round, Arsenal will join the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/24\/andy-robertson-signs-new-liverpool-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/25\/ike-ugbo-completes-genk-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/24\/southampton-thierry-small-everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a> and current holders <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/25\/ac-milan-interested-in-bernardo-silva\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a>, who are looking to make it five successful cup triumphs in a row this season to add to their wins in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.<\/p>\n<h2>Carabao Cup Third Round Draw<\/h2>\n<h3>EFL Cup Third Round Draw in Full<\/h3>\n<p>Queens Park Rangers v Everton<\/p>\n<p>Preston North End v Cheltenham<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United v West Ham United<\/p>\n<p>Fulham v Leeds United<\/p>\n<p>Brentford v Oldham Athletic<\/p>\n<p>Watford v Stoke City<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea v Aston Villa<\/p>\n<p>Wigan Athletic v Sunderland<\/p>\n<p>Norwich v Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>Burnley v Rochdale<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal v AFC Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United v Southampton<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City v Wycombe Wanderers<\/p>\n<p>Millwall v Leicester City<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur<\/p>\n<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion v Swansea City<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"08mINj09TERy-fz7lgz1bQ\" 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\/696672122\" 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:'08mINj09TERy-fz7lgz1bQ',sig:'WwGCtMdoPGEfmFSUCNSD6m82XRFFQtvzSMEQKqzRhp4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'696672122',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>In what was a much needed victory, Arsenal eased past West Bromwich Albion to reach the next round of the Carabao Cup in style. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will take most of the credit for the thumping 6-0 victory, having netted a fine hat-trick to round off an excellent return to action. Mikel Arteta will be breathing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":599999,"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":[32,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-premier-league","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599996","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=599996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}