Carabao Cup third-round draw: Liverpool drawn at home to Chelsea
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Eight-time winners Liverpool have been drawn at home to Chelsea in the third round of the Carabao Cup.
Holders Manchester City face a trip to League One Oxford United, while Manchester United are at home to Frank Lampard's Derby County.
Arsenal, runners-up last season, take on London rivals Brentford and Tottenham will host Watford.
League Two Macclesfield, the lowest ranked side left in the competition, are away at Premier League West Ham.
Tottenham's tie with Watford could be played almost 50 miles away from Wembley at MK Dons' Stadium MK.
The national stadium, where Spurs are playing home games while their new ground is built, is unavailable during third round week.
"As a result of both our new stadium and Wembley being unavailable during this week, we have applied to the EFL board for special dispensation to play this tie at Stadium MK," said a Spurs statement.
"We appreciate that Stadium MK may not be an ideal destination for every fan to get to on a weekday evening, however the club felt it would not be beneficial to request a reverse of the fixture as it would have resulted in no more than a 10% allocation of tickets for our supporters at the venue of our opponents."
Burnley, who are also entering the competition at the third round stage, are away to League One Burton Albion.
There are four all-Premier League ties in total, with Everton at home to Southampton.
Third round draw
West Brom v Crystal Palace
Arsenal v Brentford
Burton Albion v Burnley
Wycombe v Norwich
Oxford United v Man City
West Ham v Macclesfield
Millwall v Fulham
Liverpool v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Blackburn
Preston v Middlesbrough
Wolves v Leicester
Tottenham v Watford
Blackpool v QPR
Everton v Southampton
Man Utd v Derby
Nottingham Forest v Stoke
Ties to be played in week commencing 24 September.
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- Everton vs Southampton
- Liverpool vs Chelsea
- Tottenham vs Watford
- Wolves vs Leicester
Bit like it is Steven Gerrard Glasow Rangers FC now.
'As a Liverpool fan blah blah blah'
I'll translate.
As a teenager who believes football was invented in 1992, I'll snipe at supporters of other clubs that do wish to progress in the competition and will ignore the fact that the game is rigged in favour of mine and a handful of other clubs.
I suppose the journos have to build him up so they knock him hard if he fails to win promotion or silverware this season
It is fans and I use the word loosely like you that make Liverpool such a hated club muppet
As a huge club exactly how many premierships have pool won?
the rules were you can't use 2 different home grounds in one season, now this could go to 3??
if they can't hold it at white heart lane or Wembley then Watford should be given a 3-0 win and a bye through to the next round, same with every game they can't host
"Will there be any room in the scouse trophy cabinet for this?"
They can shuffle those 5 European Cups along a bit. I'm sure they can squeeze another in.