West Ham will host holders Manchester City in the Carabao Cup fourth round in one of five matches featuring two Premier League clubs.
City have dominated the Carabao Cup in recent years, winning each of the last four finals and can move ahead of Liverpool as the most successful club in the competition’s history on nine wins if they claim the trophy again this season.
West Ham are sure to provide a tougher test against Pep Guardiola’s side than their third round opponents Wycombe Wanderers. The Hammers beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford, just three days on from losing against them in the Premier League.
Chelsea’s reward for edging past Aston Villa on penalties is a home tie with Southampton, while Spurs will travel to Turf Moor to play Burnley after their victory against Wolves by the same method. Arsenal will host Leeds at the Emirates, while Leicester entertain Brighton at the King Power.
Carabao Cup 4th round fixtures – in full
- Chelsea vs Southampton
- Arsenal vs Leeds
- Stoke vs Brentford
- West Ham vs Man City
- Leicester vs Brighton
- Burnley vs Tottenham
- QPR vs Sunderland
- Preston vs Liverpool
Of the remaining 16 teams in the competition, only four are competing outside of the Premier League with three of them based in the Championship.
Stoke and Preston will both host top-flight clubs in Brentford and Liverpool respectively, while QPR are at home against League One Sunderland, who beat their title challengers Wigan Athletic in the previous round.
The fourth round fixtures will be played on the week commencing Monday 25 October and televised games will be announced by the competition’s broadcaster Sky Sports in due course.
Lanzini gives Moyes one of his sweetest moments
By Ian Whittell at Old Trafford
David Moyes finally put one over on his old employers at Old Trafford and, with that, destroyed another route for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to win his first trophy as Manchester United manager.
The West Ham manager had never won as a visiting boss at Old Trafford and not won against his old employers anywhere, in eight attempts, since leaving United following his brief, unhappy spell there.
But in front of 72,468, the biggest Carabao Cup crowd in five years, this was a good time to end that run.
United have reached the semi-finals of this competition three times in the last five years, the last two under Solskjaer, and the cup represents their last domestic trophy, won under Jose Mourinho, in 2017.
The two sides combined for 21 changes from their league meeting the previous Sunday – West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen the only survivor – but the football served up was every bit as entertaining as in that 2-1 United victory. It was the visitors who struck first, deservedly so, after they opened in fiery fashion, with United left-back Alex Telles particularly unsettled by their aggressive approach.
It took only eight minutes before Ryan Fredericks tortured Telles one more time, reaching the byline and pulling back for Manuel Lanzini to convert coolly from 12 yards.
Fredericks was injured in the process, tumbling down the steep camber that surrounds the pitch, and United were soon adding to West Ham’s concerns.
Juan Mata thundered a brilliant volley against the crossbar and Jadon Sancho saw a dangerous shot deflected wide as he cut in from the left.
Nemanja Matic cleverly set up Anthony Martial, although the Frenchman could only roll his shot beyond the far post, indicative of form that has brought him just two goals in his last 23 league and cup games for United.
The game had settled into a rhythm that continued after the restart when Mata’s chip into the area was met by Sancho, who volleyed wide at the first attempt. Right-back Diogo Dalot also threatened, shooting just wide after a Donny van de Beek effort was blocked. By the hour, Solskjaer had seen enough and thrown Mason Greenwood into the fray.
It was almost an inspired move, Van de Beek playing through the youngster whose first touch was a volley that Areola did well to keep out with his legs.
United were certainly in the ascendancy and the introduction of Bruno Fernandes added to that impression, with the Portuguese soon pulling a shot just wide of the goal and the crowd responding accordingly.
But West Ham began to increasingly exploit space on the break and Andriy Yarmolenko wasted a glorious chance to wrap up the tie, rounding the keeper but hitting the post after 86 minutes.
Mark Noble and Bowen were also denied by Dean Henderson in the frantic finale. But Moyes was not.
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