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GOAL! Everton 2-0 Watford (Richarlison, 90 2 mins)

Watfordpush forwards in search of an equaliser, and end up conceding a second. Richarlison is played through a ragged rearguard, and finishes in style!

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Colchester are in the quarter-finals!

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Manchester City are in the quarter-finals!

The final whistle goes at the Etihad, where City have beatenSouthamptonslightly less comfortably than it appeared they would a little earlier in the evening.

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Sunderland’s Luke O’Nienhas just been tripped in the box, but somehow the referee doesn’t give a potentially decisive penalty! Meanwhile at the Pirelli Stadium Demarai Gray is played through, takes the ball round the outrushing keeper, but his left-foot, side-footed shot is feeble and a defender clears.

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GOAL! Burton 1-3 Leicester (Maddison, 89 mins)

Gray has a hand in another goal, and Leicester wrap up the tie! The winger bursts down the right, gets to the byline and pulls back to Maddison, only recently off the bench, whose first-time shot goes in at the far post.

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Burton have a chance to equalize,but Sarkic appears to panic as the goalkeeper hares out towards him, and blasts over the bar.

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GOAL! Crawley 1-3 Colchester (Gambin, 79 mins!

A cross from the right, and Luke Gambin controls brilliantly, turns and slams the ball into the roof of the net!

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GOAL! Oxford 1-1 Sunderland (McNulty, 78 mins)

An equaliser for Sunderland! It’s a bit messy: a corner is flicked on, bounces off a defender’s back and finds McNulty, who converts from close range!

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Leicester have a goal disallowed,Barnes converting Gray’s low center but being ruled narrowly offside.

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GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 Southampton (Stephens, 75 mins!

They’ve only gone and scored! It’s a corner on the right which is deliciously flighted to the far post, where Jack Stephens thumps in a header!

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GOAL! Everton 1-0 Watford (Holgate, (mins)!

Evertonhit the back of the net! Walcott gets the ball on the left of the area and crosses to Holgate, who is completely unmarked five yards out and can hardly miss!

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Southampton have hada shot on target! And three shots in total! A massive turnaround in their fortunes at the Etihad.

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Everton hit the woodwork again!This time it’s Lucas Digne, with a 25 – yard free-kick that clips the top of the wall, and then the top of the bar on its way over. How long canWatfordsurvive this onslaught?

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NowEvertonhit the woodwork!The ball falls to Iwobi just inside the area, and he lashes it against the meat of the bar!

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Something happensEvertonhave a free-kick on the left, which is sent arrowing onto Michael Keane’s forehead, but he nods the ball straight at Gomes! ************

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Burton nearly equalize!From a corner, the ball is headed towards the far corner, and it was looping in until a defender got in the way, and then it wasn’t. At the other end, Albrighton’s low shot is well saved!

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GOAL! Man City 3-0 Southampton (Aguero, 56 mins

Mahrez’s 30 – yarder hits a defender, loops up and drops onto Aguero’s foot six yards out! He hardly makes any contact, but then he doesn’t really need to, especially with theSouthamptondefense dozing.

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GOAL! Burton 1-2 Leicester (Boyce, 52 mins

Game on! Boyce spears a low shot goalwards from the edge of the area, and Ward in the Leicester goal is so surprised at this turn of events that he haplessly helps it in!

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GOAL! Crawley 1-2 Colchester (Luyambula own goal, 53 mins!

A nice free-kick from Cohen Bramall hits the bar, bounces into the goalkeeper’s back and goes in!

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Our five matchesare back under way. On Sky, they are suggesting that only losing toManchester Cityby two or three goals might serve to “build confidence”. City come close to scoring a third, but Bernardo Silva doesn’t anticipate Mahrez’s through-ball, which was really quite excellent.

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Manchester City have had 10 shots,seven on target, and won four corners.Southamptonhave had no shots and won no corners.

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Two injuries to report at Goodison Park:Watford have been forced to take off Domingos Quina and bring on Evertonn’s summer target Abdoulaye Doucoure, andEvertonhave been forced to take off Yerry Mina and bring on Michael Keane.

GOAL! Man City 2-0 Southampton (Aguero, 38 mins)

A fine cross from Kyle Walker on the right, and a tap-in for Aguero in the center!

Sunderlandhit the post and Oxford break at speed and in numbers. It looks to have come to nothing when Fosu-Henry’s pass inside manages to evade both of his nearby team-mates but Hall arrives late to smash it into the corner of the net from the edge of the area!

Finally City get a reward for their domination! A corner is played short, Bernardo Silva chips in a cross from the corner of the area and Otamendi heads in from five yards! City have let it slip a bit of late, with latest statistics having them down at 83% possession.

Burton give the ball away in midfield, and again Gray’s pass releases a player on the wing – Praet this time, on the right – whose low center is converted by Tielemans!

We have our first goal! A lovely pass from Gray to Tielemans shreds Burton’s defense, and his low center is turned in by Iheanacho!

Southampton have not had to wait longfor a reminder of last Friday’s miseries:

The clocks have gone back,the nights are drawing in and we’re heading into snood-and-hat territory.

Finally, here are the teams from Oxfordwhere both teams make five changes:

Oxford Utd :Eastwood, Long, Dickie, Moore , Ruffels, Henry, Gorrin, Baptiste, Hall, Taylor, Fosu.Subs: (Stevens, Forde, Mousinho, Sykes, Mackie, Agyei, Jones)Sunderland:Jon McLaughlin, Lynch, Willis, Flanagan, Conor McLaughlin, Dobson, Leadbitter, Power, Hume, McGeady, McNulty.Subs:McGeouch, O’Nien, Grigg, Mbunga-Kimpioka, Taylor, Connelly , Patterson.
Referee:Stephen Martin.

Colchester are the only unchanged side tonight.How many unchanged teams have been named in the entire tournament? Not many, I’d wager.

Crawley Town :Luyambula, Sesay, Tunnicliffe, Dallison , Doherty, Bulman, Allarakhia, Ferguson, Beryly Lubala, Grego-Cox, Enigbokan-Bloomfield.Subs:Morris, Young, Palmer, Nadesan, Nathaniel-George, Sendles-White , Camara.
Colchester:) Gerken, Jackson, Eastman, Prosser, Bramall, Stevenson, Comley, Senior, Adubofour-Poku, Nouble, Norris.Subs:Lapslie, Sowunmi, Jevani Brown, Harriott, Clampin, Gambin, Ross.
Referee:Tony Harrington.

Teams from the Pirelli Stadium, where Burton make two changes and Leicester make nine:

Burton Albion :O’Hara, Brayford, O ‘Toole, Wallace, Hutchinson, Edwards, Quinn, Fraser, Sarkic, Boyce, Broadhead.Subs: (Daniel, Buxton, Templeton, Sbarra, Anderson, Dyer, Garratt.)Leicester:Ward, Justin, Morgan, Evans, Fuchs, Choudhury, Albrighton, Praet, Tielemans, Gray, Iheanacho.Subs:Schmeichel, Soyuncu, Vardy, Maddison, Barnes, Ricardo Pereira, Ndidi.
Referee:Darren England.

Here are the teams from the Etihad,where 18 – year-old Tommy Doyle makes his senior debut in what will from Southampton’s perspective look like a disappointingly strongManchester Cityside. Still, Pep Guardiola makes nine changes; Southampton make six.

Man City :Bravo, Walker, Otamendi, Garcia , Jose Angelino, Bernardo Silva, Doyle, Foden, Mahrez, Aguero, Gabriel Jesus.Subs:Stones, De Bruyne, Silva, Joao Cancelo, Carson, Bernabe, Poveda -Ocampo.
Southampton:McCarthy, Valery, Stephens, Bednarek, Danso, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Armstrong, Long, Boufal.Subs: (Yoshida, Vestergaard, Ings, Adams, Redmond, Gunn, Vokins.)Referee:Jonathan Moss.

Team news is rolling in.Here, to get the ball rolling, is news from Goodison Park, where Everton make five changes andWatfordeight. Given Watford’s current dearth of strikers it is interesting to see the 19 – year-old Sam Dalby, who has been prolific so far this season for the Under – 23 side (and stood out when I saw him in pre-season, albeit against non-league opposition), on the bench.

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So the Carabao Cup’s fourth round dawns, with five fixtures being played tonight and a further three tomorrow. On a purely numerical basis, this is the week’s big night of cup action, even if tomorrow’s three games (Liverpool v Arsenal, Chelsea v Manchester United and Aston Villa v Wolverhampton, since you ask) all have just a little bit more stardust twinkling upon them than any of tonight’s five. Still, we must all play the hands we are dealt, and these are our aces this evening (all 7. 45 PM BMT kick-offs:

Burton Albion v Leicester City
Burton’s Nigel Clough thinks / hopes that this competition might not be Leicester’s toppermost priority. “It is a competition that they could win, but they are challenging for the top four as well so there will be different thoughts going through his head,” he said of his opposite number, Brendan Rodgers. Leicester’s Danny Ward is expecting a tough old night. “It will be another tough game, they will be right at it,” he says. “I’ve played there before, it’s a small, intimidating ground and they will make it difficult for us, but we know what job we’ve got to go there and do and hopefully we’ll produce another good performance.”

Crawley Town v Colchester UnitedCrawley have not won a game since they last played Colchester on 12 October. “I think we will react, I believe in the squad and in what we are doing,” the manager, Gabriele Cioffi, says. “Sometimes a fall is healthy and I think it happened in the right moment.” Meanwhile theColchestermidfieler Ben Stevenson is feeling optimistic. “We are hoping that we can put on a show,” he says. “We are all really looking forward to it for the traveling fans and looking to get through.”

Everton v Watford
Everton have to cope with the knock-on effects of the weekend defeat at Brighton, in which they sustained damage to their morale and Bernard sustained a knee ligament injury. “The next game is a different competition and if we have a goal, an ambition to go until the end, to the final, we have to win,” says Marco Silva. Meanwhile Quique Sanchez Flores says success in the cup will not impact on Watford’s miserable league form. “What we want is a win,” he says. “To win is always important, but what we realize is when we won in Swansea, it didn’t affect what happened in the league because we didn’t win the next one. It’s different competitions, different line-ups, different goals. So to win tomorrow is important again but it’s nothing concerned about what is happening in the league. It is a completely different scenario. ”

Manchester City v Southampton
Pep Guardiola insists thatSouthamptonare not completely rubbish despite their 0-9 home thrashing by Leicester last Friday. “They are incredible professionals,” said the Spaniard. “The manager will be sad for a moment, for one night, but after that they have to move forward. They will try to do their best. ”Indeed Ilkay Gundogan says tonight’s game“ is not going to be easy, especially for their last result ”. Meanwhile Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg insist the Saints are determined to improve. “We never want to be in this position again or anywhere near it. We have to get back up and make sure this never happens again, ”he says. “We can put quotes out, apologise and say something, but the only thing that’s the real deal now is actions. Actions that are nowhere near what they were against Leicester. We can never show our faces like this again. ”

Oxford United v SunderlandOxford must do without the full-back Chris Cadden and midfielder Cameron Brannagan, who both picked up injuries during Saturday’s 3-0 League One win over Rochdale.Sunderlandalso lost at the weekend, 1-0 at Shrewsbury. “This is a different challenge against an in-form team, who are scoring goals,” says their assistant manager, Steve Parkin. “This is a great opportunity for our lads to progress in a fantastic competition.”

So, that’s what’s on our menu. Let’s do this!