Football betting tips: Carabao Cup<\/p>\n
0.5pt Cardiff to win in 90 minutes at 12\/1 (BetVictor, Betfred)<\/p>\n
1pt Draw in 90 minutes at 11\/2 (BetVictor)<\/p>\n
Sky Bet odds<\/a> | Paddy Power<\/a> | Betfair<\/a><\/p>\n Kick-off: 20:00 GMT, TuesdayTV: Sky Sports Main Event<\/p>\n It has come earlier than last season but just as Chelsea<\/a> were being mentioned as potential Premier League<\/a> title challengers a blip arrived.<\/p>\n They broke a four-match winless run in all competitions by beating Everton on Saturday<\/a>, leading to some frankly bizarre post-match comments from Enzo Maresca.<\/p>\n “Since I joined the club, the last 48 hours have been the worst because many people didn’t support us,” said the Blues boss.<\/p>\n Rather than the focus being on his players’ performances, the fallout has been centred on what kind of cryptic message Maresca was sending to Chelsea’s owners. At a club not exactly famed for its long-term support of coaches, and now run by a collection of egoistic billionaire hedgefund managers, this may not have been the smartest move. <\/p>\n Chelsea, who have battled injuries all campaign, now face an eighth match in just 24 days. By January 7 it will be 14 in 49.<\/p>\n While in the midst of some struggling away form (W1 D2 L2) they head into a Carabao Cup quarter-final at League One<\/a> leaders CARDIFF<\/a> who are fresh off a 99th-minute winner over Doncaster that stretched their run of successive third-tier victories to five.<\/p>\n It was their 10th win from 12 home matches in the league and Carabao Cup this season. <\/p>\n Brian Barry-Murphy’s side look a big price to cause a shock at 12\/1 TO WIN IN 90 MINUTES.<\/p>\n For context, in the previous round three EFL clubs had home ties against Premier League opposition. League Two Grimsby (15\/2) hosted Brentford, League One Wycombe played Fulham (5\/1) and Championship Swansea (12\/1) took on Manchester City.<\/p>\n Wycombe took Fulham to penalties before losing the shootout, Swansea led City before two late goals got Pep Guardiola’s men over the line 3-1 and although Grimsby were thrashed 5-0, the Mariners of course knocked Manchester United out in round one. They were only 10\/1 that night. <\/p>\n Splitting our stake accordingly and also backing THE DRAW at 11\/2 is also advised. <\/p>\n Barry-Murphy’s young, developing side have a wonderful opportunity to test themselves against some of the best players in the country while backed by a sold out home crowd. Now six points clear of third place with a game in hand, the Bluebirds need not worry about this match being any kind of distraction.<\/p>\n As for Maresca and Chelsea, stuttering Champions League performances<\/a> means they have much work to do in their final two group games.<\/p>\n This is far from a priority.<\/p>\n Odds correct at 09:45 GMT (15\/12\/25)<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football betting tips: Carabao Cup 0.5pt Cardiff to win in 90 minutes at 12\/1 (BetVictor, Betfred) 1pt Draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-194774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}