Tottenham 2-1 Man City LIVE RESULT: Spurs STUN Pep’s City in Carabao Cup, Liverpool beat Brighton, Palace shock Villa

Tottenham trophy prediction

Tottenham legend Gus Poyet told SunSport last month that Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou can win the Carabao Cup and end the club’s miserable trophyless run since 2008.

Yes, I think it is the first time in many, many years that we’ve seen a coach saying, ‘I’m gonna win something’. Before that it was always qualifying for the Champions League. So why not?

I mean, about the performances or about how the team plays, it’s difficult to make an opinion. You know, the coaches, we’re looking for a different thing but at the end of the day you have to win football games.

Your identity is very important because that way you have consistency. But in cup games, you need to win. I mean, I don’t remember anyone saying, ‘Yeah, we won the cup but we really played bad’.

So nobody will remember how they played at Coventry if they win the Carabao Cup. So it’s a matter of getting through and winning the final. I don’t remember anyone complaining about winning in a final playing badly.

Gus Poyet

Carabao Cup draw

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Post-match thoughts

So a big win for Spurs… but at what cost, for both teams, in this battle of the walking wounded?

Ange Postecoglou’s victors lost both Timo Werner and Micky van de Ven to suspected hamstring injuries.

While Pep Guardiola saw Savinho come off on a stretcher and had Manuel Akanji pull out in the warm-up.

It left him with just ELEVEN fit outfit first-team players. No wonder Erling Haaland was left on the bench.

Guardiola said he did not want to waste energy on this competition, now he does not have to after going out of it early on again, three years on from winning it four times in a row.

Spurs’ dream of a first trophy since 2008 is still alive.

View from Tottenham

Pep Guardiola really is down to the bare bones, as Harry Redknapp would put it, after suffering more blows in this lost battle of the walking wounded.

Savinho became the latest casualty as the Brazilian was forced off on a stretcher, leaving Guardiola with just ELEVEN fit outfield first-team players.

Manuel Akanji also picked up a problem in the warm-up, joining Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker, Jeremy Doku, Oscar Bobb and Ballon D’Or winner Rodri on the treatment table.

No wonder Guardiola, who had asked for a “good performance, but no more injuries please” ahead of the game, did not want to waste energy on this competition.

Now he will not have to as Tottenham earned a statement win thanks to Timo Werner ending his 12-game goal drought this term and a Pape Matar Sarr stunner.

But it came at a cost for Ange Postecoglou’s men as they lost both Werner and Micky van de Ven to hamstring injuries, either side of a Matheus Nunes strike.

FT: Tottenham 2-1 Man City

Peep!

Tottenham have eliminated Man City from the Carabao Cup!!!

View from St James’ Park

So it’s revenge for Newcastle following Sunday’s Premier League defeat at Stamford Bridge.

And Eddie Howe’s side have also avenged last season’s Carabao Cup KO at the hands of Chelsea.

They’re through to the last eight and a kind draw will evoke memories of two seasons ago when they reached the Wembley final only to lose 2-0 to Manchester United.

Chelsea huffed and puffed in the second half but never looked like overturning the Toon’s 2-0 interval lead.

View from St James’ Park

Newcastle took a trip down memory lane to ignite their season and dump last season’s beaten finalists Chelsea out of the Carabao Cup.

Having been out of sorts for much of the campaign so far, the Toon players rediscovered the energy, flair and goalscoring threat of recent years to lift spirits among a fanbase which was starting to doubt them.

This was the Newcastle who destroyed Chelsea 12 months ago and the previous season too, the red-hot hosts who had previously turned St James’ Park into a foreboding fortress, not the anaemic, goal-shy side of late.

Chelsea have been more pedigree than pantomine in recent weeks but this was a night they resorted to southern softies mode against opponents with the bit between their teeth.

To be fair to the visitors, they had carried the greater attacking threat in the opening 20 minutes but once they gifted Newcastle the lead, there was an inevitability about the outcome.

The two goals which separated the sides, scored in the 23rd and 26th minutes, were both messy, not that the celebrating Toon Army cared a hoot about that.

View from Manchester

If Erik ten Hag was watching in Amsterdam he must have been wondering if this was indeed the same Manchester United team. Why does this always happen?

The old boss goes, his assistant takes over and the team transforms overnight. It makes you wonder what Ruud van Nistelrooy was doing on the training ground in the first place.

Much of this victory that put the Red Devils into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup was down to the strength of the opposition. Leicester City fielded a team with nine changes and was similar in strength to that which drew 0-0 with Walsall in the last round before winning on penalties.

United by contrast were strong, Van Nistelrooy wasn’t going to pass this chance up to be a winner from the Old Traford dug out. Mind you to be fair to him whoever pulls on a United shirt nowadays nothing can be guaranteed.

So credit Van Nistelrooy for getting a tune out of this lot just two days after Ten Hag was dismissed. The regular boos heard here became cheers and smiles replaced frowns and shaking heads.

It was reminiscent of..well when they played Barnsley in the last round and won 7-0 but not much else in recent memory.

View from Villa Park

This playing out from the back is all very impressive when it comes off…but how many times does it land teams in the you-know-what.

It did just that for Aston Villa, when Diego Carlos slid the ball to Daichi Kamada and the Palace substitute drilled in the winner.

The old down-towner might not be so pleasant on the eye, but you don’t concede from it!

View from Tottenham

Pep Guardiola’s injury problems continue to pile up as Savinho has been forced off on a stretcher with what looks like a right ankle issue.

The Brazilian, who was impressing, appeared to suffer it in an innocuous challenge with Destiny Udogie by the touchline.

But he ended up going down and had to be carried off, looking in considerable pain, being replaced by rookie Jacob Wright.

Guardiola is already without Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Jeremy Doku, Kyle Walker and Rodri due to injury.

View from Preston

Gabriel Jesus scored his first goal in 274 days to put Arsenal on course for the quarter-finals.

But the Brazilian was upstaged by teen sensation Ethan Nwaneri who is becoming the stand out star of the Carabao Cup for the Gunners.

After grabbing two against Bolton in round three, the 17-year-old underlined his potential AGAIN here by curling home a first-half beauty.

He came agonisingly close to adding a couple more too before leaving the pitch to a standing ovation from the visiting fans just before the end.

While this competition may not be the priority for Mikel Arteta, fans will be hoping they can go all the way so they can see more of Nwaneri.

The only downside to a highly-satisfactory night for the Emirates chief was that his team did not score more.

Preston had won just three of their last 12 matches but they have been hard to beat since Paul Heckingbottom took over early in the season.

They have also done well in this competition – knocking out Championship high-fliers Sunderland and then claiming a Prem scalp by sending Fulham out in an epic penalty shoot-out.

But they were no match for Arteta’s side which showed eight changes from the team which drew with Liverpool on Sunday.

FT: Man Utd 5-2 Leicester

Peep!

Man Utd make it to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals in the post-Erik ten Hag era!

FT: Aston Vila 1-2 Crystal Palace

Peep!

Crystal Palace pick up a massive win and knock Aston Villa out!

FT: Newcastle 2-0 Chelsea

Peep!

Newcastle have eliminated Chelsea from the Carabao Cup!

FT: Preston 0-3 Arsenal

Peep!

Arsenal are in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup!

View from the Amex

One of the best things about coming to Brighton is that they never know when a game is over.

If it weren’t for Tariq Lamptey’s mistakes in fluffing his first chance and losing the ball for Liverpool’s second it could have ended up being quite the night for him and Brighton.

As it is we can all look forwards to another feisty encounter at Anfield on Sunday while the Seagulls must wait at least another year to try and reach the quarter-finals.

View from Tottenham

Lightning came oh so near to striking twice as Timo Werner was inches away from scoring again.

The German, who belted home a super finish in the first half for his first goal of the season, was sent haring down away by Dominic Solanke into the Manchester City half.

His pace meant he was never going to be caught and he did everything right, but his left-footed effort just shaded the wrong side of the post.

Ange Postecoglou has decided to protect Cristian Romero ahead of the weekend by taking him off, given he is likely to be without his other first-choice centre-back Micky van de Ven who came off with a hamstring injury in the first half.

View from Brighton

Cody Gakpo continued his Carabao Cup love affair with a brilliant brace at Brighton. The Dutchman’s double set Liverpool up to cruise into the quarters.

But a late flurry of goals, with Simon Adingra and Tariq Lamptey scoring either side of Luis Diaz, left Arne Slot looking flustered.

Whether 2-0 up or down Brighton can always produce a comeback or collapse, but Slot’s lot should have been far more comfortable having been put clear.

Gakpo bagged four goals on the way to last season’s final and already has four in two appearances this term. Slot needed another forward to step up after injuries and some rotation – eight changes a piece made here.

He has so little faith in blooper-reel regular Darwin Nunez that he opted to start two central midfielders, Dominik Szboszlai and Curtis Jones, as false nines. It left the Reds with an effective front four at most times, though they struggled for clear cut chances.

FT: Brighton 2-3 Liverpool

Peep!

Liverpool are through to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals!

View from Tottenham

Half-time at Spurs and there is a sense of nervousness around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, as fans know how precarious their 2-1 lead is.

They were so desperate to make it to the break two goals to the good after fantastic finishes from Timo Werner (of all people) and Pape Matar Sarr.

But Manchester City’s pressure told and deep into injury-time, livewire Savinho teed up the equally-impressive Matheus Nunes to reduce the deficit.

Ange Postecoglou was left shaking his head but his side had been asking for it by dropping deeper and deeper throughout the half.

And without the injured Micky van de Ven, his side are in for a huge 45 minutes as they look to pull off a statement win and dump Pep Guardiola’s men out the cup.

Brighton 2-3 Liverpool

Goal!

Brighton score with Tariq Lamptey on 90 minutes!

Now on stoppage time!

Brighton 1-3 Liverpool

Goal!

Liverpool may have clinched it with Luis Diaz’s strike five minutes before full-time!

Aston Villa 1-2 Crystal Palace

Goal!

Crystal Palace regain the lead with Daichi Kamada on 64 minutes!

Brighton 1-2 Liverpool

Goal!

Brighton hit back with Simon Adingra just nine minutes before full-time!

Will we have another stunning comeback from the Seagulls?