Last night the Carling Cup 3rd round took off. This is the round were the big boys get envolved. There were 3 all premier legue ties so that meant we would lose 3 big contenders. The pick of these ties was Tottenham v Arsenal. And what a game it was. Arsenal took the lead through Henri Lansbury after dominating the first half. Tottenham were quick out of the blocks at the start of the second half and equalised through Robbie Keane. Both teams really started to go for it but no one could find a winner. Extra time it was then and Arsenal cleverly got in behind the Tottenham back line and were awarded a penalty when Nasri was pushed over. Nasri dusted himself of and sent Arsenal back infront. Minutes later Arsenal opened up Tottenham again with Chamakh through on goal this time. A clumsy challenge by Naughton sent Chamakh to the ground and Arsenal had the chance to probably put it beyond Spurs. Nasri stepped up again and put it in the opposite side than the first. Tottenham had one cleared off the line, Nasri showing he can perform at both ends of the pitch. Just when Arsenal fans thought it couldn't get any better Arshavin sent a thunderbolt into the Spurs goal putting the icing on the cake for the Gunners.
In other games West Ham beat Sunderland 1-2 giving them a much needed first win of the season. And Stoke
beat Fulham 2-0 . Wolves were really tested at Notts County. They went behind in the first half but managed to pull it back to
3-1. Then Notts County scored again making it a last few tense minutues before Doyle scored in the 119th minute to seal it for the premier league side.
In the games involving lower teams Millwall's good start to the season has gone up in flames. The weekend before this they were hammered by Watford losing their perfect clean sheet record. They faced Ipswich at home and were defeated 2-1. Mabye all the hipe about Milwall going to the premier league at the first attempt will stop now. Swansea beat Peterborough 3-1 and Being a Portsmouth fan just keeps on getting harder as they lost 2-1 to Leicester.
The big shock of the 3rd round was Everton got Knocked out by Brentford. It was 1-1 afer extra time and Brentford went through 4-3 on penalties. What a result fo Brentford. As for Everton they just can't find their feet this season.
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