Look away Bradford fans, it's all Peterborough. Macaulay Gillesphey gets a fifth-minute yellow for a tactical foul.

Nice start here from unfancied Peterborough as Harry Ashfield tries a curler with his right peg but it's blocked behind for a corner.

And from the set-piece it drops to Brandon Khela who hammers a fizzer just wide.

Robbie Savage is already on the edge of his technical area after Bradford's Bobby Pointon is late on Posh's Harley Mills. Peterborough win a free-kick.

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And we're off at Valley Parade!

Andy Reid
Former Republic of Ireland midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Yeah, there is a fair bit of quality [in Arsenal's starting 11], but on the flip side to that, if I was looking at it from a Fleetwood perspective, I would be thinking to myself that we could have a little bit of a go here.

From a Fleetwood perspective, what a night! The conditions, hopefully, for Fleetwood will be some sort of leveller and you just want them to go out and have a right go. And give a really good account of themselves, if they can make it difficult in the early stages, don't give a goal early and stay in the game as long as you can.

See if you can put Arsenal under a bit of pressure and use the weather to your advantage.

Joe C the Arsenal fan there, presumably wanting Fleetwood to win tonight.

Almost there. The two teams have walked out in the earlier game.

Arsenal come into this game off the back of a comfortable win over Everton and a 2-2 draw away at Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

Fleetwood have lost their past two - away at Exeter and Cheltenham.

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It's a proper David vs Goliath game this. The champions of England against 18th in League Two.

"Give me a headache" "A big chance".

Yep, this really is one of those games for introducing yourself. Go on kid, make some headlines. But obviously for like a good thing like scoring, not for say a comical own goal or missing a penalty.

Alex Howell
BBC Sport Arsenal reporter

It's a big opportunity for 18-year-old Caedach O'Neill. The forward who can play across the frontline joined Arsenal in the summer of 2024 from Northern Irish side, Linfield.

He featured in the 3-3 draw with Bayern Munich last week in the Uefa Youth League and has trained regularly with the Gunners first team.

He's previously been in first team squads but now he has his chance to impress from the start as he makes his debut.

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Mikel Arteta on his Arsenal XI to face Fleetwood and a big night for the academy: "It's great to have Marli [Salmon], Max [Dowman] and Ceadach [O'Neill] with us. We always said everybody is going to be important, they need to feel like it and the only way to do that is play minutes.

"The best way to express yourself when you have to play. Give me a headache, give me a problem and give me a reason to play more and so far the boys have done that really well."

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Compared to other cup competitions such as the FA Cup and Champions League, the EFL Cup uses a different payment structure when it comes to prize money for teams.

While most competitions have a structured round-by-round monetary prize, including in its qualifying rounds, the EFL Cup only has specific round prize money from the semi-finals onward.

The EFL Cup winners get £100,000 in prize money. For comparison, this season's FA Cup winners will earn just over £2.1m in prize money.

Instead of a large prize pot, clubs earn revenue in a number of different ways, with the English Football League seeing those as effectively the competition's prize money.

In the EFL Cup, clubs are offered an equal split of gate receipts regardless of the two teams in the fixture. This can benefit lower league clubs if they are drawn away to a big Premier League side that has a larger stadium than they do.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Arsenal will want this to be as ordinary and forgetful a performance as they can possible make it.

Mikel Arteta has been in this position before. He has respected the competition and Fleetwood Town with his team selection. I think he has rotated, but he has left a lot of quality within the team.

He's bringing in Max Dowman, who has had a lot of talk around him. If he should have more game time, should he be playing in the Premier League and the Champions League, well we are going to get a chance to see him tonight and see what he can do.

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Fleetwood boss Matt Lawlor, speaking to Sky Sports on his team selection: "We made two changes, one enforced through suspension. We had to make changes because we have a packed schedule and we have the champions coming to town and there's a way we want to go and play."

On what challenge Arsenal present: "The steepest from winning the league last year. It will be a very difficult challenge we have to come up against. They have paid a lot of respect to the competition and us by naming such a strong team. We understand it's a difficult challenge."

League Two Fleetwood have finished 15th and 14th since being relegated in 2024.

But they're currently on their best-ever run in the Carabao Cup, so, for tonight at least, things are looking rosy.

Can they cause an almighty upset and book their spot in the quarter-finals?

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Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

As neutral fans we always get excited about the possibility of seeing a giant killer in these situations, and with the mentality of this Fleetwood team, they will see it as a real opportunity to make history.

To put down one of those results that will always be remembered.