Tottenham crash out of Carabao Cup to Colchester on penalties – as it happened

Colchester dumped Spurs out of the Carabao Cup after some shootout drama, while Crawley saw off Stoke and Southampton eviscerated arch-rivals Portsmouth

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Anyway, that’s your lot, as an evening of high drama comes to an end. Thanks for reading Clockwatch!

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Nick Ames was at the Emirates to see Gabriel Martinelli introduce himself in style.

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Everton eased past Sheffield Wednesday, to keep their dream of a first trophy since 1995 alive. Liz Byrnes was on hand to witness a good evening for Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

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More on that south-coast derby, courtesy of Ben Fisher at Fratton Park.

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Paul Wilson was at Deepdale to see Raheem Sterling run riot.

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9.59pm BST

A word on the south-coast derby from Danny Ings (who supported Southampton as a kid) and James Ward-Prowse (a Portsmouth fan as a lad). “It’s a derby that I have always wanted to play in,” says Ings. “I’ve been very fortunate to play in other derbies but this one tops it off for me. Obviously a great night, great for the fans and a fantastic win.” Ward-Prowse adds: “It was a special occasion, great for the area. I think both sets of fans have been looking forward to this. These are the games as players you want to play in. We knew what we had to do and we did a fantastic job. We came here to do a job and we are in the hat for the next round, that’s what we will be celebrating on the way home.”

9.57pm BST

All the full-time scores.

Arsenal 5-0 Nottingham Forest
Colchester United 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur (Colchester win 4-3 on pens)
Crawley Town 1-1 Stoke City (Crawley win 5-3 on pens)
Luton Town 0-4 Leicester City
Portsmouth 0-4 Southampton
Preston North End 0-3 Manchester City
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Everton
Watford 2-1 Swansea City

9.54pm BST

Quite a contrast in emotions in north London tonight.

9.53pm BST

For the second successive round, Crawley have seen off a Championship side! Stoke follow Leeds, and it’s officially crisis time in the Potteries.

9.52pm BST

Martinelli has announced himself tonight. He’s already got one. Now he’s curled a vicious shot into the top right from 25 yards. This is now a rout.

9.50pm BST

We could have another shock on our hands! Sam Vokes has missed Stoke’s first penalty in the shootout with Crawley. After a couple of spot-kicks each, it’s 2-1 to the League Two club ... and the pressure is on struggling Stoke City!

9.48pm BST

As if Tottenham’s night wasn’t bad enough.

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Lapslie slams home ... and the 2008 winners are out! The Champions League finalists have been knocked out by a side from League Two! Fans flood onto the pitch in celebration! Spurs have gone the same way as Crystal Palace, who were defeated on penalties in the second round. It’s Mauricio Pochettino’s first defeat as Spurs boss to a club from the lower leagues!

9.45pm BST

And now it’s 3-3 after four spot kicks each. Lucas Moura, the hero of the Champions League semi final against Ajax, stutters his run-up and clips Tottenham’s fifth penalty off the top of the crossbar. Tom Lapslie will have a penalty to win it for Colchester!

9.44pm BST

... it’s level between Spurs and Colchester after three penalties each. It’s 2-2. Christian Eriksen missed the first one for Spurs. Then Jevani Brown tried a Panenka. It was such a weak effort, Paulo Gazzaniga, having dived, was able to spring back up and punch the ball away, livid at his opponent’s cheek! What drama!

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A second match is going to penalties. Speaking of which ...

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Southampton’s first win in a south-coast derby since 2005. And it’s a big one.

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The perfect way to bounce back from an eight-goal defeat.

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Much relief for Marco Silva. Wednesday can’t avenge defeat in the 1966 FA Cup final.

9.39pm BST

The three-time winners breeze through, and Leicester’s fine start to the season continues apace.

9.38pm BST

Joe Willock makes it certain for the Gunners. Another corner, a bit of pinball, and Willock slots it home from eight yards.

9.37pm BST

Another memorable performance from Raheem Sterling, and the holders are into the fourth round.

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The League Two side have taken last year’s Champions League finalists to penalties!

9.34pm BST

Kelechi Iheanacho is sent clear down the left and chips the keeper. A delightful - and rare - goal for the Foxes striker.

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Corner. A simple header from close range for Rob Holding. The four-time winners Forest are heading out.

9.31pm BST

Pompey gave as good as they got in the first half, but they’ve eventually been outclassed. And Nathan Redmond has scored the goal of the game, whizzing down the left, drifting inside, and launching a sweet shot into the bottom left. A night to forget for Pompey ... though of course Saints fans will remind them of this scoreline at every possible opportunity.

9.27pm BST

Gerard Deulofeu scampers down the left, draws a few Swansea defenders, then slips a ball across the face of goal, allowing Roberto Pereyra to clip home from close range.

9.25pm BST

It’s all over at Kenilworth Road as well. Kelechi Iheanacho should score upon barging clear, but stumbles as he tries to round the keeper. No matter! He at least keeps the move going, and the ball’s looped to the left for Youri Tielemans, who races into the box and whistles a volley home.

9.21pm BST

Cedric has won the derby for Saints. Well, he’s the scorer, though it’s Danny Ings who has really done the business. Ings has already scored two; now he’s scampered down the left and reached the byline, the ball breaking back for Cedric, who slams home. This will be Southampton’s first win over the old enemy since 2005.

9.19pm BST

Goals please. Please. Aw come on. A reminder that any games drawn after 90 minutes go straight to penalties. With this in mind, Spurs - no trophy since winning this competition in 2008, remember - throw on Erik Lamela as well. Not so long to grind out the win against League Two Colchester.

9.14pm BST

The irrepressible Raheem Sterling nearly sets up another goal for Manchester City at Deepdale. He skates down the middle of the park and flicks the ball to Phil Foden on his right. Foden bashes a shot off the crossbar. But still no second-half goal in any of these third-round games. Sterling, though. What a star.

9.11pm BST

Collins comes sliding straight through the back of AN Opponent at high speed. It’s comically reckless, utterly needless, and struggling Stoke are up against it now. Dear me. What pointless hoodlummery.

9.07pm BST

Tottenham are still looking to crack the Colchester code. Last season’s Champions League runners-up are frustrated enough against the League Two side to have just brought on Christian Eriksen and Son Heung-min.

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Goals, please. Please.

9.03pm BST

Preston hit the post against champions Manchester City! Josh Harrop sashays in from the right, leans back, and whips a low shot off the bottom of the right-hand post. On another night, the former Manchester United player could have had a couple of goals for the hosts. The slim margins between a thriller and a thrashing.

9.01pm BST

Some more close misses. Sam Surridge fails to bundle a high ball across the line for Swansea at Watford; it’s quite astonishing that he didn’t connect. Meanwhile Kyle Walker-Peters nearly opens the scoring for Spurs at Colchester, lashing in a cross from the right that evades everyone and comes off the left-hand upright! But no second-half goals to report yet.

8.58pm BST

It’s end to end at Crawley. Ollie Palmer should have given the hosts the lead over Stoke, sent clear by a poor defensive backflick. But he didn’t have the pace to reach the area, then went over too easily looking for a penalty. He didn’t get it. Then Stoke went up the other end, Jordan Cousins slamming home from close range ... but from an offside position.

8.50pm BST

We’re into the second half in seven League Cup matches around the country. Meanwhile it’s just gone half-time at the Emirates, where Arsenal go in 1-0 ahead of Forest.

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Half-time entertainment.

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8.38pm BST

Colchester 0-0 Tottenham
Crawley 1-1 Stoke
Luton 0-2 Leicester
Portsmouth 0-2 Southampton
Preston 0-3 Manchester City
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Everton
Watford 1-1 Swansea

They’re still playing at the Emirates, where the game kicked off at 8pm. It’s currently 1-0 to the Gunners against Forest.

8.36pm BST

This is a peach of a goal, a PlayStation special. Reiss Nelson sprays a pass wide right to Calum Chambers, who volleys a first-time cross towards Martinelli at the near post. Martinelli twists in mid air to slam home.

8.34pm BST

Portsmouth were pressing again. And again they’re caught on the break. Danny Ings is sent scampering clear down the middle and he dinks a gorgeous chip over the keeper and into the net. Saints in control at the break.

8.32pm BST

James Justin scores against his old club, gliding in from the right to meet a dropping diagonal pass and slamming home elegantly. He doesn’t celebrate, and his old fans sportingly applaud their former player.

8.30pm BST

Sterling just can’t stop it. Now he’s barrelling down the left, slipping a perfectly weighted pass into the box for David Silva, whose shot from a tight angle on the left is deflected past the keeper by Ryan Ledson. “The Man City kit looks like a few Barça away kits have run together in the wash,” opines Gerard Nugent. Pep’s influence runs deep.

8.27pm BST

Misery descends on Stoke again. Nathan Ferguson fails to connect with a cute backheel, a low ball flying into the Stoke box from the right. But no matter! The ball sits up for him anyway, and he’s able to whip it home.

8.26pm BST

This is hardly breaking news, but Raheem Sterling is such a fine player. Now he’s setting them up, slipping in Gabriel Jesus after causing all manner of hassle down the inside-left channel. Sterling is simply unplayable in this mood.

8.24pm BST

Watford’s respite didn’t last long. Sam Surridge, on loan from Bournemouth, levels it up at Vicarage Road, sliding in to meet Nathan Dyer’s right-wing cross. It’s his fourth goal of the season.

8.20pm BST

A cute corner from Marc Albrighton, clipped to the near post and flicked back to Demarai Gray, who bundles a shot into the bottom left. Luton were caught snoozing. One straight out of Brendan Rodgers playbook. The manager will be well chuffed with that.

8.16pm BST

On the subject of much needed respite, here’s some for injury-plagued Danny Welbeck and recently-shellacked Watford. The striker plants a header home at a corner, and it’s his first goal since last October.

8.14pm BST

Bagatelle at a corner, and Sam Vokes slams home from close range. Some much needed respite for under-pressure Supremes earworm Nathan Jones.

8.11pm BST

Against the run of play, Saints have taken the lead at Fratton. Danny Ings shoots from the edge of the box, and the Premier League club take the lead. He very nearly makes it 2-0 a few seconds after, but can’t quite chip MacGillivray in the Pompey goal.

8.09pm BST

Sweet baby Moses, have you seen what Manchester City are wearing this evening? They’re decked out like a packet of sweets from the 1970s. Hey, does anybody remember sweets that wouldn’t pass EU regulations these days, etc. A proper envelope-pushing comedian could get a whole bit out of that. Anyway, their psychedelic gear has got Preston spinning, because Raheem Sterling has just run at them with great pace and skill, swerving this way and that before banging a shot home from just inside the box. What a run that is!

8.02pm BST

League One Portsmouth are giving a good account of themselves against Premier League Southampton. John Marquis has just barged his way down the right and thumped a long-range effort off the outside of the right-hand post. Not at all sure Alex McCarthy would have got to that, had it been on target. McCarthy does get his fingers to Brett Pittman’s rising screamer a few minutes later, though. Great save. Pompey on top.

7.58pm BST

What a start for under-fire Marco Silva ... and for Dominic Calvert-Lewin. He’s just poked in Alex Iwobi’s left-wing cross. Wednesday will take heart that they were 2-0 up in the 1966 FA Cup final against Everton, only to end up losing 3-2. Er, sort of. Spectacular cup turnarounds between these two sides have historical precedent, is all we’re saying.

7.55pm BST

This is a fine goal, and it’s come against the early run of play. Wednesday had been on the front foot, but Dominic Calvert-Lewin was picked out down the inside-left channel, he romped into the area, and thumped an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net!

7.53pm BST

No early goals. Though there was very nearly a shock start at Deepdale, where Josh Harrop - formerly of Manchester United - couldn’t quite get a close-range header on target for Preston. Now that would have put the cat among the treble-winning pigeons.

7.48pm BST

All the matches, save the one at the Emirates, have just kicked off. Here’s the weather at Fratton Park, incidentally. Summer’s gone. Autumn’s here!

7.35pm BST

Arsenal versus Nottingham Forest has been delayed by 15 minutes due to the entire country’s transport infrastructure being totally jiggered. Re-nationalise the railways! Vote Labour! We paraphrase of course. The official club line is “travel issues for supporters”. However you spin it, that match will now kick off at 8pm.

7.29pm BST

Crawley Town: Luyambula, Sesay, Tunnicliffe, Dallison, Doherty, Bulman, Grego-Cox, Camara, Ferguson, Beryly Lubala, Palmer.
Subs: Morris, Young, Payne, Nathaniel-George, Enigbokan-Bloomfield, Allarakhia, Sendles-White.
Stoke City: Federici, Collins, Batth, Lindsay, Smith, Cousins, Woods, Ward, Hogan, Vokes, Campbell.
Subs: Etebo, Carter-Vickers, Davies, Powell, Duffy, Sorensen, McJannaett.

7.27pm BST

Preston North End: Ripley, Fisher, Storey, Davies, Rafferty, Ledson, Browne, Potts, Johnson, Harrop, Barkhuizen.
Subs: Rudd, Bayliss, Ginnelly, Green, Stockley, Huntington, Nugent.
Manchester City: Bravo, Joao Cancelo, Garcia, Harwood-Bellis, Jose Angelino, Foden, Gundogan, Silva, Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Sterling.
Subs: Rodri, Mendy, Mahrez, Otamendi, Carson, Bernabe, Dionkou.

The defending champions Manchester City try out an all-new teenage centre-back pairing of Eric Garcia and Taylor Harwood-Bellis. Claudio Bravo, Joao Cancelo and Angelino complete a totally refurbished defence. Phil Foden also comes into midfield. Preston, third in the Championship, made six changes from the side that won at Birmingham last weekend.

7.24pm BST

Colchester United: Gerken, Jackson, Eastman, Prosser, Bramall, Lapslie, Comley, Senior, Stevenson, Gambin, Nouble.
Subs: Sowunmi, Norris, Jevani Brown, Cowan-Hall, Clampin, Chilvers, Ross.
Tottenham Hotspur: Gazzaniga, Tanganga, Dier, Sanchez, Walker-Peters, Wanyama, Skipp, Davies, Lucas Moura, Alli, Parrott.
Subs: Lloris, Vertonghen, Son, Lamela, Sissoko, Foyth, Eriksen.

Tottenham give debuts to 17-year-old striker Troy Parrott and centre-back Japhet Tanganga. Eric Dier returns and is awarded the captain’s armband; Dele Alli is also back. Colchester hand starts to returning duo Tom Lapslie and Luke Gambin.

7.21pm BST

Watford: Gomes, Janmaat, Prodl, Kabasele, Masina, Doucoure, Chalobah, Pereyra, Quina, Welbeck, Gray.
Subs: Dawson, Deulofeu, Cleverley, Sarr, Dele-Bashiru, Bachmann, Foulquier.
Swansea City: Nordfeldt, Roberts, van der Hoorn, Cabango, John, Byers, Grimes, Dyer, Dhanda, Peterson, Surridge.
Subs: McKay, Borja Baston, Carroll, Routledge, Mulder, Cooper, Garrick.

Quique Sanchez Flores reacts to Watford’s latest humiliation at the hands of Manchester City by making ten changes. Abdoulaye Doucoure is the only man still standing. Danny Welbeck leads the attack alongside Andre Gray. Meanwhile Swansea make just the eight changes to their starting XI, with on-loan Bournemouth striker Sam Surridge getting his opportunity.

7.16pm BST

Sheffield Wednesday: Dawson, Odubajo, Iorfa, Thorniley, Fox, Murphy, Pelupessy, Luongo, Reach, Winnall, Nuhiu.
Subs: Palmer, Lee, Rhodes, Harris, Fletcher, Bannan, Jones.
Everton: Pickford, Sidibe, Holgate, Mina, Digne, Davies, Delph, Richarlison, Iwobi, Bernard, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Keane, Sigurdsson, Walcott, Schneiderlin, Coleman, Kean, Lossl.

Everton make five changes to the side that lost at home to Sheffield United. Mason Holgate, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Alex Iwobi, Djibril Sidibe and Tom Davies get their chance. Wednesday make eight changes. Atdhe Nuhiu, who rescued a point late on against Fulham at the weekend, is rewarded with a start.

7.08pm BST

Luton Town: Shea, Bolton, Sheehan, Jones, Potts, Berry, Mpanzu, Moncur, Butterfield, McManaman, Lee.
Subs: Tunnicliffe, Pearson, Sluga, Cornick, Brown, LuaLua, Bree.
Leicester City: Ward, Justin, Morgan, Evans, Fuchs, Ndidi, Gray, Tielemans, Praet, Albrighton, Perez.
Subs: Schmeichel, Vardy, Iheanacho, Barnes, Amartey, Choudhury, Ricardo Pereira.

Leicester make seven changes, with only Jonny Evans, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans and Ayoze Perez keeping their places from the 2-1 win over Tottenham. Full-back James Justin debuts against the club he left in the close season. The hosts also ring the changes. Ten of them! Only Luke Bolton retains his shirt from the side which went down 3-0 at home to Hull on Saturday.

7.05pm BST

Portsmouth: MacGillivray, Bolton, Hawkins, Burgess, Haunstrup, Naylor, Close, Williams, Brett Pitman, Curtis, Marquis.
Subs: Walkes, Downing, Cannon, McCrorie, Evans, Maloney, Bass.
Southampton: McCarthy, Cedric, Bednarek, Yoshida, Bertrand, Hojbjerg, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Ings, Obafemi, Adams.
Subs: Stephens, Long, Armstrong, Boufal, Redmond, Gunn, Valery.

Ryan Bertrand returns at left-back for Southampton, while boyhood Pompey supporter James Ward-Prowse also starts. For the home side, Tom Naylor has passed a fitness test.

7.01pm BST

Arsenal: Martinez, Chambers, Mustafi, Holding, Tierney, Torreira, Willock, Nelson, Ozil, Smith Rowe, Martinelli.
Subs: Macey, Bellerin, Ceballos, Balogun, Bola, Burton, Saka.
Nottingham Forest: Muric, Cash, Figueiredo, Robinson, Chema, Ribeiro, Silva, Carvalho, Johnson, Lolley, Adomah.
Subs: Smith, Milosevic, Grabban, Ameobi, Sow, Gabriel, Mighten

Former Celtic full-back Kieran Tierney and 18-year-old Brazilian striker Martinelli make their Arsenal debuts. Spanish defender Chema Rodriquez pulls on a Forest shirt for the first time.

5.18pm BST

Welcome to our Carabao Cup Clockwatch. Or for purists, our League Cup Clockwatch. English football’s secondary knockout competition has reached the third round, the last 32, when all the big clubs playing European competition rock up. The fixture list has been split in two, with eight matches being played tonight, and the remaining eight tomorrow. Here’s what’ll be happening this eve:

Arsenal v Nottingham Forest
Colchester United v Tottenham Hotspur
Crawley Town v Stoke City
Luton Town v Leicester City
Portsmouth v Southampton
Preston North End v Manchester City
Sheffield Wednesday v Everton
Watford v Swansea City

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