Topic: ⚽ EFL Carabao Cup 2024/25 Season - page 7. (Read 2962 times)

Less than one week to go for the semifinal games of EFL Carabao Cup between Arsenal and Newcastle United and a day after between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
At the first glance I think that the final match will be held between gunners and Liverpool. Liverpool is way better than the other teams and Tottenham isn't ok at all this period.
Arsenal and Newcastle match is a little bit more complicated thought since Newcastle could show some good performances and gunners have their weak moments.
Overall both games are interesting and worth to be followed

I've been curious to ask this question, Ange Postecoglou knows confidently how to handle Manchester this season. He dealt with Pep Guardiola and Ruben Amorim this season, beating the Citizens and the Red Devils twice, he deserved some accolades already, taking Spurs to be twice stumbling nightmare for Manchester clubs. There are more errors following the 4-3 defeats of Ruben Amorim side to Postecoglou. They conceded early and late goals thereby leading to the demotivation of the players, but they will bounce back more stronger next season, that I know for sure.

Spurs eliminated Manchester United from the Carabao Cup and you expects Manchester United fans to wear on smiling faces? Amorim and the players will try to work things out because this was never the intended motion for the new manager, he expected to brings things back to the way they was, more like in the era of Sir Alex Ferguson where he triggered big winnings for the club, lifting major trophies with the club but there's no such scene today for the Red Devils. Other than blank hopes that will always end up not happening in reality. Fate becomes the second mid-name for Manchester United.

It would be a shame to miss it, the Arsenal vs Palace match in the Premier League will start soon, just a few minutes away. And maybe tonight I will stay up late so I can watch it from start to finish. and the place has been able to perform quite well lately, and even in their last five matches in the Premier League, they have not experienced defeat.



The EPL Cup match schedule is still a long way off, so both teams still have a long time to prepare for the match. However, if you are curious enough about the performance of both teams, maybe you can watch their match in the Premier League, where the two teams will meet tomorrow.

Well it not the first time, but maybe it because you are a Manchester United fan that why you feel pained. VAR are to be used in semi finals and final. It was the same thing last season and even 2 seasons ago, but even if VAR was available I don’t think that will be a foul, that exactly how arsenal have been scoring so far from corner this season, they practically block the keeper from having access to the ball. Everyone have a different opinion about the goal, so as for me it not a foul. Manchester United should have done better by protecting their keeper.



What the essence of FA investing the issues of it won’t change the outcome of the result. I still believe even after the investigation they would conclude that it was no foul because whatever they conclude can’t change the fact the Tottenham are into the semi finals. We have see issue like this where you will leave you goal Keeper unprotected and the opponent will take advantage of it especially in set pieces. Gunners have scored more goals from it and that goals always stand.

It was quite difficult for Man United to turn things around in this match, they were already three goals behind Spurs after the match entered the 46th minute. They had previously done it when facing Man City, but the three-goal gap was quite far. Man United did manage to catch up and reduce the goal difference, but the goal scored by Son in the 88th minute was the deciding factor in who would emerge as the winner in the match.

And regarding the goal scored by Son, this was a very beautiful goal, go; created from a corner kick and we saw how the ball flew far past several players, and curved towards the second goal post. This is a very rare goal, a fantastic goal.

Yes Manchester United tried hard until the final whistle was blown and managed to score a 3rd goal in extra time but it was too late because Tottenham had already led 4 goals first so Man United had no chance to equalize to at least fight in a penalty shootout.
Of course Liverpool will be the favorite but in this competition we don't know the possibilities because Arsenal, Newcastle and Tottenham still have an open chance to win this competition if they are lucky enough to eliminate Liverpool.

There was no VAR in the Tottenham vs Manchester United game because according to the policy in effect since the 2019/20 season, the use of VAR will be implemented in the semifinals. The FA will investigate the incidents that occurred in the match, Man United players were furious when the controversial goals and incidents were shown on the big screen, maybe if VAR was used in the game, the result would have been different. Whatever happens during the match, Tottenham are already confirmed to have qualified for the semifinals and will face Liverpool in a 2-leg tie.

Tottenham are on a good run and Manchester United stood no chance unfortunately, but they deserve the credit for pushing their luck!

And you are right, the Amorim football was interesting to watch but I think a few bad seeds that don't want to put in the work need to be flashed out and replaced by others ready to work with him.

The only time we get to appreciate VAR is when illegitimate goals get to be counted and VAR is not present to help out, but it's part of football to keep fans debating and all that... anyway we wait to see if Spurs can keep their run going this weekend.

It cannot be considered as revenge because the competitions are different (EFL and EPL) even though both are taking place in the Premier League and on the one hand Crystal Palace also does not have the strength that exceeds Arsenal this season so it will be difficult to win even though Crystal Palace will play at home in today's match. In addition, Arsenal themselves also need full points in every match so as not to be left far behind Chelsea and also from Liverpool because if Arsenal loses in today's match their position will be threatened by Nottingham Forest if the team can win in today's away match.

Nothing should be taken for granted, except for Spurs being spursy.

It seems like every other week they win by 5-0 and then lose by 0-4 the next week.

You saw how in that ManU game they almost tied the score (before that olympico). Agneball style of play is very entertaining to watch as a neutral but devastating  for holding the lead.

We even play them this gameweek, and their first choice back line is injured.

No doubt that Liverpool can bring the Carabao cup to Anfield due to their outstanding performance in all competitions but i feel that Liverpool has more important trophies to target than the EFL cup. Their interest this season may be centered at the premier league title and the Champions League trophy which might make them not to pay much attention to other competitions, but it does not mean that the EFL cup is not important to them. If Liverpool meet against Arsenal, they can lose because Arsenal will put more energy in the EFL cup since they know that their fate in the EPL title race is still hanging. Besides if you watch the game Arsenal played against Crystal Palace during the midweek games, they put in so many efforts before they could win Crystal Palace, that is to show they have the EFL cup at heart.


And finally, they have been eliminated by Tottenham, and it is what it is. Manchester United was so reluctant against Tottenham and they conceded three straight goals, when they tried to come back, Tottenham overpowered them. If they had put in great energy in the first half as they did in the second half, they could have probably ended in a draw but they overlapped, and Tottenham took advantage and eliminated them.

Manchester United had made it 3-2, but Son made things difficult for them. They continued to fight to catch up, but there was not enough time to level the score again. This defeat leaves a little scar for Manchester United, but Tottenham were not as lucky as expected, even though they managed to qualify for the semifinals, they will face Liverpool who have performed optimally in various competitions. I'm not sure Tottenham can handle the challenge of an Arne Slot led squad, beating them is almost impossible, although in football anything is possible.

If he's going to rotate players like when he played against Southampton while Spurs come with a full team it will be difficult. Some youngsters do show promises but it's hard for them to grow quickly if they have no minutes and consistency. That being said, Arne already said they plan to defend the title since Klopp won it last season. I think players like Endo, Gomez, and Chiesa will definitely have their minutes in this competition so they will definitely play. Kelleher is probably going to start too. Spurs definitely have a chance to win since Liverpool will likely play an attacking football with some weakness in transition. CMIIW.

The first half went well for crystal palace and in fact they were able to keep up with arsenal game, but as I said above, the quality of the players and also the mentality was the difference in the match, the inclusion of Saka has had a positive impact on arsenal  attacking line, because in fact his penetration into the opponent defence has destroyed the concentration of the palace defence, and this allowed gabriel jesus  to score a hat trick with easy, tomorrow match will be an opportunity for the crystal palace squad to avenge their defeat, so I think  now they has learned from the defeat in the EFL and focus on winning the match against arsenal in the EPL later.

The semifinals is a two leg matches therefore each team would play at home and away, Arsenal would play Newcastle at the Emirate Stadium and play the second leg at St James' Park thus it's going to be a very competitive match because each of those club wanted to win Carabao trophy especially those whose chances of winning premier league trophy is very Slim,  it's been long Arteta had last won a trophy for Arsenal, while Tottenham had never won a trophy they would put in every effort to defeat Liverpool so as to play at the finals,  Liverpool new manager would also aim for his first trophy for his club I think all the four clubs has equal chances of winning the trophy.

I think we can manage against them, and I think that Arteta, our coach, should not take this competition for granted because it is his chance to win a trophy, at least in his long run as our coach. I am looking forward to the players we will bring into our team in January. I hope they will be players to strengthen our team better in places that we are lacking, especially in attack.

In that game also, we may potentially see Gabriel Jesus play against Arsenal for Newcastle because there are talks that Newcastle has significant interest in him, and the deal may happen in January.

Drawing for semifinal matches has been finish few hours ago and according to the schedules the semifinal matches will be helded at January 6 for the first leg and February 3 for second leg

Arsenal vs Newcastle
Tottenham vs Liverpool

Arsenal will faced hard opponent for semifinal because Newcastle cannot be underestimate and in the last 5 meeting Newcastle can beat Arsenal twice at their home so Newcastle potentially can make Arsenal gets in trouble because Newcastle will be hard to beat especially at home and for Liverpool vs Tottenham certainly Liverpool is the favourite but their performance a bit decline recently but i think they still can beat Tottenham as long as there is no important players who got injured

From the Lineup I just knew Manchester United was going to lose to Tottenham Hotspur because Tottenham came prepared and only made a few changes to their first team despite it being the Carabao Cup, but Manchester United on the other hand made lots of changes to their squad and it affected them in the first half of the game and before they could settle down they were already 3 goals down and it was difficult to equalize despite scoring 2 goals back. Everyone thought they would comeback but then Son scored a beautiful goal from corner to win the game for Tottenham.

They have improved in their game play under Amorim and they seem to play with purpose compared to when Ten Hag was in charge but they are still not there yet and Amorim still needs time to properly improve the team to compete and I think we might see the best of him next season.

In fact, what happened during the 90 minutes of the match, Manchester United dominated more in terms of ball possession and attack, there were at least twenty shots launched by Man United players, but unfortunately only a few shots were on target and became goals. And this did not escape because in that match, Tottenham's defense was quite solid, and more organized, so there was little space for MU players to shoot directly towards the goal. On the other hand, Spurs actually utilized counterattacks effectively, which allowed them to score first. If MU could be more clinical in finishing, maybe the results would be different.

Lastly, on the other hand I also agree with your opinion that what happened to Man United when facing Spurs, this also did not escape Amorin's mistake in setting up a playing strategy.


Trailing by 3 goals from Spurs, it might be quite difficult and a little impossible for Man United to turn things around. However, Man United managed to break that impossibility when facing Man City in the Premier League, they were able to turn things around and the match became a victory for Man United. and in this match Man United almost repeated that, but what they faced this time was Spurs, and Spurs had a pretty strong defense, so Man United failed to make a comeback.

Arsenal vs Liverpool is a regular and interesting final if it happens.
Tottenham who managed to qualify for the semifinals because they beat Manchester United. Before the Spurs vs United match took place, I had said that Manchester United would have a hard time against Tottenham even though some thought Manchester United's game was very good when they beat their rivals in Manchester.

Tottenham's progress to the Carabao (EFL Cup) semifinals is indeed deserved. Against Liverpool later it will be a fairly tight semifinal match.