Reply With QuoteActually TLG it is astounding. How ca that be?Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
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Eight EFL Cup fourth round ties this week - five tonight and three tomorrow night.
Amazingly, there isn't a single Championship club left in the competition.
11 Premier League sides, 3 League One teams, 2 League Two sides.
Very unusual.
Actually TLG it is astounding. How ca that be?
I imagine they have all been knocked out
I guess the PL teams have bigger squads and the championship teams use 2nd string whereas League 1 & 2 perhaps field normal squads.
Even so you'd have thought at least one would have hung about.
Almost certainly
.... reckon?
Don't jump to any hasty decisions here.
I'm not surprised we are not in it.......again.
We may be representing division one next season😱
You call that a detailed analysis? I was expecting far more! Your standards are slipping! (only joking btw)
15 of the 24 lost to sides from the Championship or Premier League. Of the remaining 9 that lost to teams in divisions below, 5 lost on penalties.
In the first round there were 3 all Championship ties, eliminating, erm, 3. 9 went through against lower division teams, 6 lost to lower division sides, half on penalties. 9 gone.
In the second round there were 4 all Championship ties, eliminating, by some surprise, 4. 2 lost to Premier League sides. 2 lost to League 1 sides, one on penalties. Another 8 gone, 17 in total. 7 left.
In the third round, 6 Championship sides faced Premier League teams and all lost. The remaining side, Stoke, lost to League 2 Crawley on penalties. 7 gone, 24 in total. 0 left.
Very unusual to see no Championship sides in the tournament after the third round, but 15 were beaten by sides in the top 2 divisions and more than half of the rest lost on penalties. A pretty rare turn of events I reckon.
Strange for a cup competition.
Judging by tonight's results there won't be any in the next round either.
That's a very astute comment. Nobody else saw this coming.
I like a man who does his research well.
What does that tell us? Oh yes, you have too much time on your hands and your stats are irrelevant. It needed no further detail.You call that a detailed analysis? I was expecting far more! Your standards are slipping! (only joking btw
15 of the 24 lost to sides from the Championship or Premier League. Of the remaining 9 that lost to teams in divisions below, 5 lost on penalties.
In the first round there were 3 all Championship ties, eliminating, erm, 3. 9 went through against lower division teams, 6 lost to lower division sides, half on penalties. 9 gone.
In the second round there were 4 all Championship ties, eliminating, by some surprise, 4. 2 lost to Premier League sides. 2 lost to League 1 sides, one on penalties. Another 8 gone, 17 in total. 7 left.
In the third round, 6 Championship sides faced Premier League teams and all lost. The remaining side, Stoke, lost to League 2 Crawley on penalties. 7 gone, 24 in total. 0 left.
Very unusual to see no Championship sides in the tournament after the third round, but 15 were beaten by sides in the top 2 divisions and more than half of the rest lost on penalties. A pretty rare turn of events I reckon.
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