{"id":589305,"date":"2026-08-10T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589305\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:12:08","slug":"chelsea-drawn-at-home-to-luton-in-carabao-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589305\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea drawn at home to Luton in Carabao Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time winners Chelsea have been handed a home draw against League One Luton in the second round of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p>New manager Xabi Alonso will begin the club&#8217;s bid to win the competition for the first time since 2015 later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Premier League side Tottenham have also benefited from a home draw, against Championship opponents Charlton.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham host League One AFC Wimbledon, Brentford have a potentially tricky away day at second-tier Birmingham while Ipswich host Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the southern section West Ham, who beat Portsmouth in Saturday\u2019s first round, travel to Championship side Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>In the northern section, the headline fixture sees last season\u2019s Europa League semi-finalists Nottingham Forest host fellow top-flight opposition in Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>New Newcastle head coach Matthias Jaissle has been given a home draw against West Brom while Everton boss David Moyes will return to Preston, where he was a player and manager.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League newcomers Hull travel to Stoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-time winners Chelsea have been handed a home draw against League One Luton in the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589305","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=589305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}