Easy Carabao Cup 3rd round draws for Bristol City and Bristol Rovers
Posted on: 24 Aug 2017In the early hours of Thursday morning UK time the 3rd round draw of the Carabao Cup was made over in Beijing, China and thanks to the heroics of Tuesday evening, both Bristol City and Bristol Rovers were in the pot. Despite an attempt at the World Record for longest time to make a cup draw things got underway after a mere 22 minutes we're thrilled to say that they've both our teams have landed pretty straightforward fixtures.
Bristol City are ready to knock out Stoke, another Premier League scalp to add to that of Watford who were slaughtered 3-2 on Tuesday thanks to goals from Freddie Hinds, Bobby "he's on fire" Reid and Niclas Ellison. The tie will be played at Ashton Gate.
Bristol Rovers will have to travel up North to Wolverhampton Wanderers from the Championship having already battered Fulham from the same division 1-0 earlier this week, the goal scored by Welsh wizard Ellis Harrison.
Fixtures will be played in the week commencing 18th September - more details of exact dates and times to follow. The full list of games is shown below:
Carabao Cup third round draw
Arsenal v Doncaster
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough
Bournemouth v Brighton
Brentford v Norwich
Bristol City v Stoke
Burnley v Leeds
Chelsea v Nottingham Forest
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield
Everton v Sunderland
Leicester v Liverpool
Manchester United v Burton
Reading v Swansea
Tottenham v Barnsley or Derby
West Brom v Manchester City
West Ham v Bolton
Wolves v Bristol Rovers
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