And with that news, I’m off. It’s been, in its way, actually quite exciting. Bye!
A remarkable night of Carabao Cup action saw several people whose name is or sounds like Sako play football at the same time
Tue 19 Sep 2017 17.34 EDT
First published on Tue 19 Sep 2017 13.45 EDTLive feed
Final score in the shoot-out: Burnley 3-5 Leeds United! Dallas shoots to his left, Pope dives to his left, and Leeds United are through!
Burnley 3-4 Leeds United! Alioski’s penalty is an absolute cracker, flying right into the top corner!
MISS! Burnley 3-3 Leeds United! Tarkowski’s shot is low, his shot is hard, and his shot hits Lonergan and bounces clear! We have our first miss!
Burnley 3-3 Leeds United! The keeper goes the right way, but Brady’s penalty is too good!
Burnley 2-3 Leeds United! Klich’s penalty is ice-cool, casually passed to his right as the keeper goes left!
Burnley 2-2 Leeds United! Hernández, who scored Leeds’s penalty in normal time, sends his effort just inside the right-hand post!
Burnley 2-1 Leeds United! Barnes sidefoots to his right, with Pope diving the wrong way.
Wood scores from the spot! Burnley 1-1 Leeds United Chris Wood slams the ball straight down the middle, and into the roof of the net!
It’s in! Burnley 0-1 Leeds United Smashed hard into the left corner. Pope goes the right way but gets nowhere near.
Penalties are about to get under way, and Lasogga is going to take the first for Leeds.
There’s some unhappiness among the Leeds ranks at Burnley, where the police appear to have requested that the shoot-out take place at the home end.
Final score: Burnley 2-2 Leeds United
So this tie will be decided by penalty kicks.
Final score: Wolves 1-0 Bristol Rovers
Bright Enobakhare wins the game, and the best-first-name-of-the-night award.
Final score: Bournemouth 1-0 Brighton
It’s all over at the Vitality, and Bournemouth are through.
David Hytner has spent his evening at Wembley:
And Wolves still lead Bristol Rovers 1-0, where the visitors’ Tom Lockyer has been sent off for a professional foul.
In Bournemouth they’re into added time at the end of extra time, and the Cherries remain a goal to the good.
Another update from Burnley-focused JR: “A possible source of controversy at Burnley would be referee Darren Bond pulling six added minutes out of his pants (it should not have been more than four) and then Brady equalising in the 96th minute,” he writes. “But what a free kick that was. Love Brady. Anyway, if nuclear armageddon arrives before I contact you again at least we had Sako/Sakho/Sacko day.”
Tonight has been unusually Sakful. There are, it seems, only two top-level footballing Sakhos in world football, and just one Sako (though Yuya Osako plays for Köln, Abdoulaye Sissako for Auxerre and Vajebah Sakor for Gothenburg). There’s only one renowned Sacko, unless you count Falaye Sacko of Vitória Guimarães. In short, every single noteworthy Sacko/Sakho/Sako in world football has been in Carabao Cup action tonight.
The three extra-time matches continue, and are all in the second half. Wolves and Bournemouth lead 1-0, while Burnley and Leeds remain tied at 2-2, and are presumably saving themselves for a ludicrously manic last two minutes.
Finally (for now), Jacob Steinberg witnessed West Ham’s comfortable romp against Bolton:
While Stuart James saw Leicester’s logic-busting victory over Liverpool. According to our occasionally-reliable match stats, Leicester had eight shots in total of which five were on target, while Liverpool had 21 shots in total of which three were on target. That is some commitment to profligacy:
Some match reports for you. First, Dominic Fifield watched Crystal Palace beat Huddersfield:
Final score: Tottenham 1-0 Barnsley
It’s all over at Wembley, and Tottenham are still in the hat! Could they be on their way to Wembley (again)?
Jon Fanning has got an issue with JR’s Burnley v Leeds report, and specifically the suggestion that Jeff Hendrick has been “literally invisible”. “If he is literally invisible at Turf Moor, I suspect it is more likely he isn’t there at all and they are just pretending he is,” he writes, not unreasonably.
After battling through 90 goalless minutes, and some goalless stoppage time, within moments of extra time getting under way it’s …
GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Bristol Rovers (Enobakhare, 98 mins)
and also
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Brighton (King, 99 mins)
I meant I didn’t see what it was doing there stylistically, though I hadn’t thought of this obvious potential excuse.
It has finished 2-2 at Burnley, so they, like the goalless pair, Bournemouth v Brighton and Wolves v Bristol Rovers, head into stoppage time.
I certainly don’t see anything very admirable in it. Is it the green stripe that gets your juices flowing? Because I’ve got no idea what it’s doing there.
GOAL! Reading 0-2 Swansea (Ayew, 83 mins)
I don’t know much about this goal, except that it was “superb”.
GOAL! Burnley 2-2 Leeds (Brady, 90+6 mins)
A totally ludicrous final few minutes at Burnley, and after Robbie Brady curls in a lovely 30-yard free kick it once again looks like extra time is inevitable there.
GOALS! Brentford 1-3 Borwich (Clarke, 90 mins)
West Ham 3-0 Bolton (Masuaku, 90 mins)
I’ve only seen the latter, which was a beautiful left-footed strike into the far top corner from 30 yards.
Final score: Bristol City 2-0 Stoke City
Another Premier League scalp is, um, scalped in Bristol, where Stoke played poorly and were punished for it.
Final score: Leicester 2-0 Liverpool
Anyone who turned off at half-time will be absolutely astonished by this scoreline.
GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Leeds (Hernandez pen, 90+4 mins)
It’s not a great penalty, low, slow and nowhere near the corner, but happily the goalkeeper goes the wrong way, so it doesn’t much matter!
Penalty to Leeds! Tarkowski pulls Roofe’s shirt, and in the middle of six minutes of stoppage time Leeds have a chance to retake the lead!
Bad news for text-based live-update service providers everywhere: there will be extra time in at least one game, the final whistle having gone at Bournemouth.
Oh yes. How quickly we forget.
GOAL! Burley 1-1 Leeds (Wood pen, 89 mins)
And Wood sends the goalkeeper the wrong way to haul Burnley level at the last! He celebrates with a demure fist-pump.