As a result of last week's Champions League ties and games this week in the Europa League, the third round of the Carabao Cup has been split over two weeks.

Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Bradford City, Sunderland, Newcastle United and Chelsea all won their third-round ties last week.

The draw for the fourth round will take place on Wednesday night, after the Manchester United v Brighton match.

A reminder that there are five League Cup matches tonight with four more tomorrow and one on Thursday.

Peterborough host Barnsley at 19:30 BST while Fulham travel to West Ham for a London derby at 19:45 BST.

The final three matches - Ipswich Town v Arsenal, Liverpool v Tottenham and Reading v Brentford - get under way at 20:00 BST.

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town boss Gary O’Neil wants his side to harness the energy of the Portman Road support under the lights as they look to topple Arsenal in the Carabao Cup third round.

“Arsenal are tough to beat, even if you do everything right,” said O’Neil, according to the Ipswich Star.

“I’ll make some changes to my team, I’m sure Mikel will make changes to his team, but it’s a game we want to win. I want to get as far in the cups as we can.

“We’re going to give it our best go at home under the lights. I think we missed the opportunity against Liverpool. We played well, but it was already 2-0. We missed the opportunity to use the energy of Portman Road under the lights against a big side.

“So we can correct that. We can start the game well. We can take the fans with us on an attempt to beat one of the best sides around.”

This was a Premier League fixture last season but West Ham are now in the Championship following their relegation from the top flight.

The Hammers have made a strong start to life in the second tier and sit top of the table after seven games.

"They have a Premier League level squad, so they aren't Championship opposition in my opinion," Fulham boss Alvaro Arbeloa said.

"If we want to beat them, we will have to perform well."

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Liverpool have made an unbeaten start to the season under Andoni Iraola but they have drawn three and won two games.

Performances have been mixed, with an excellent display against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League followed by a drab goalless draw against Fulham in the Premier League.

"We have to accept there are going to be ups and downs in this process," said Iraola.

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The early rounds of the League Cup is often seem by many managers as a chance to rotate their squad and give fringe players some gametime.

It is an understandable tactic with lots of fixtures to consider, but Brentford boss Keith Andrews believes the Bees owe it to their fans to make sure they take this competition as seriously as possible.

"We've got 5000 fans going to the game. That for me says it all - the belief the fans have that we are taking it very seriously," he said.

"We did it last year. We pushed as hard as we could. We didn't get to where we wanted to but that's the plan this year."

Arsenal, who lost in the final of the EFL Cup last season to Manchester City at Wembley, have won every game they have played so far this season.

"It's the next game ahead and the next competition," says Mikel Arteta.

"We will look at the players' eyes, they will say they want to play, they want to win the game, they want to improve and they want to review the [Sunderland] game and they will be willing for me, because I know the boys."

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Arsenal teenager Max Dowman gets his chance to impress tonight with a start for the Gunners.

The 16-year-old attacker made13 appearances in all competitions last season and scored against Everton to become the youngest scorer in Premier League history.

"You know the talent that we have, the players that we have there, we need to help him and find a way to make sure he continues to develop," Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said before tonight's game.

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Ipswich Town hand a start to striker Zian Flemming, who scored a late winner in the 3-2 victory at Crystal Palace at the weekend.

Goalkeeper Christian Walton played a key role in helping Town win promotion from the Championship last season and he is in goal for the hosts.

It is 10 changes from Gary O'Neil from the side that began the Palace game, with defender Jacob Greaves the only one to stay in.

Ipswich Town XI: Walton, Furlong, Kipre, Greaves, Ouattara, Florentino, Nunez, McAteer, Mehmeti, Philogene, Flemming.

Subs: Palmer, O'Shea, Davis, Lukic, Walle Egeli, Clarke, Maeda, Enciso, Akpom.

Defender Marli Salmon, 17, makes his first appearance for Arsenal this season, as does 16-year-old midfielder Max Dowman.

Apart from those two, the Arsenal side is packed full of experience, with Gabriel, Bruno Guimaraes, Noni Madueke, Eberechi Eze and Viktor Gyokeres among the starters, while Ezri Konsa, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz are on a strong bench.

Mikel Arteta has made nine changes from the side that won 1-0 at Sunderland on Saturday evening, with Gabriel and Myles Lewis-Skelly the two to remain.

Arsenal XI: Arrizabalaga, Salmon, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Zubimendi, Guimaraes, Merino, Dowman, Madueke, Eze, Gyokeres.

Subs: Meslier, Konsa, Calafiori, Ibrahim, Julienne, Tzolis, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz.

Reading starting XI: Pereira, Roberts, Masterson, O'Connor, Ahmed, Savage, Fraser, Kyerewaa, Stokes, Williams, Reid.

Subs: Godwin-Malife, Dorsett, Wing, Earthy, Brown, Lisbie, Stevens, Lane, Beacroft.

Brentford starting XI: Balcombe, Henry, Diouf, Ajer, Kayode, Lewis-Potter, Sangare, Carvalho, Damsgaard, Ouattara, Wilson.

Subs: Kelleher, Hickey, Yarmoliuk, Schade, Thiago, Anthony, Janelt, Schuster, Fredrick.

Aadam Patel
Liverpool Reporter

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You get the feeling that the schedule and length of turnaround between fixtures will be a common topic of conversation with Andoni Iraola.

Liverpool were brilliant against Atletico Madrid last Wednesday but followed that up with a poor display against Fulham less than 72 hours later.

Iraola pointed out the lack of freshness on Saturday as a factor and now, just over 72 hours after that game, Liverpool will play at Anfield for the third time in less than a week when Tottenham are the visitors in the Carabao Cup third round.

Iraola insists he is "very happy" with his squad and a cup game against Premier League opposition will provide a strong indication about how reliable his options really are.

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Football Reporter at Anfield

Andoni Iraola makes 10 changes for Liverpool with only Ronald Araujo retaining his place. Otherwise it's much-changed line-up from the 0-0 draw against Fulham.

Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Araujo, Gomez, Kerkez; McConnell, Nyoni; Gakpo, Mac Allister, Ngumoha; Koumas.

Substitutes: Alisson, Endo, Jacquet, Szoboszlai, Isak, Munoz, Barcola, Gravenberch. Chambers

Tottenham’s only win this season has come in this competition and Roberto De Zerbi makes eight changes from their draw against Everton on the weekend. Andy Robertson is on the bench for his return to Anfield.

Tottenham: Dubravka; Gray, Tosin, Senesi, Udogie; Bentancur, Bergvall, Gallagher; Kudus, Marmoush, Tel.

Substitutes: Kinsky, Robertson, Van Hecke, Maddison, Savio, Fernandes, Solanke, Davies, Van de Ven.

West Ham boss Nuno Espírito Santo has made six changes from the side that beat Wrexham 6-0 in the Championship on Friday.

Fin Herrick, right-back Kyle Walker-Peters, midfielders Lewis Orford and Mohamadou Kanté and forwards Josh Ajala and Pablo all come into the side.

Jarrod Bowen, who scored against both Portsmouth and Southampton in the previous rounds, makes the bench.

West Ham United XI: Herrick, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Morato, Engels, Kante, Orford, Mukasa, Pablo, Ajala.

Subs: Hermansen, Piroe, Taty, Solomon, Bowen, Magassa, Scarles, Golambeckis, Mayers.

Alvaro Arbeloa makes nine changes for Fulham from their 0-0 draw against Liverpool on Saturday.

A first start for Hugo Larsson and Cuenca makes the starting lineup for the first time since the opening game of the Premier League season.

Kenny Tete and Alex Iwobi are not involved.

Fulham XI: Lecomte, Castagne, Andersen, Cuenca, Robinson, Reed, Larsson, Smith Rowe, Kevin, Muniz, Palacios.

Subs: Leno, Affengruber, Bassey, Berge, Charles, Manuel Angel, King, Bobb, Gonzalo Garcia.

Team news is starting to drop so let's see how many changes teams have made.

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