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A remarkable night of Carabao Cup action saw several people whose name is or sounds like Sako play football at the same time

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Tue 19 Sep 2017 17.34 EDTFirst published on Tue 19 Sep 2017 13.45 EDT
Luke Ayling (left) and Ezgjan Alioski applaud supporters after Leeds defeated Burnley on penalties at Turf Moor.
Luke Ayling (left) and Ezgjan Alioski applaud supporters after Leeds defeated Burnley on penalties at Turf Moor. Photograph: Richard Sellers/PA
Luke Ayling (left) and Ezgjan Alioski applaud supporters after Leeds defeated Burnley on penalties at Turf Moor. Photograph: Richard Sellers/PA

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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!

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 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!

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.

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.

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.”

@Simon_Burnton so there's Sacko, Sakho for Palace, Sakho for West Ham as well as Sako!! Is this the new Smith (or Smythe)?

— Daffy Kyle (@daffykyle) September 19, 2017

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.

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.

Josh King celebrates scoring the opener at the Vitality. Photograph: Steven Paston/PA
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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)

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.

@Simon_Burnton Seeing Alfie Mawson celebrating his goal and wondering if I'm alone in my deep respect for Swansea's away kit this season?

— Neil McGwyre (@neilmcgwyre) September 19, 2017

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.

Swansea City’s Alfie Mawson after scoring against Reading. Photograph: Athena Pictures/Getty Images
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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!

Pablo Hernandez celebrates after scoring from the spot. Photograph: Richard Sellers/PA
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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.

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.

Burnley’s Chris Wood sends the Burnley keeper Pope the wrong way to level. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters
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