{"id":666891,"date":"2026-10-27T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666891\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:40:10","slug":"carabao-cup-build-up-live-team-news-latest-news-conferences-before-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666891\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup build-up LIVE: Team news &#038; latest news conferences before last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alonso has new headaches at Chelsea in big weekpublished at 13:33 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:33 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Liverpool v Chelsea (Wed, 20:00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ac19b0fc-d8e9-4783-9881-4b00877f7064.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nizaar Kinsella<br \/>BBC Sport Chelsea reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso is heading into a difficult week of matches, and defeat at home to Tottenham has raised the stakes ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s trip to Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defeat was notable for a mistake by 21-year-old goalkeeper Mike Penders, which swung the game in Spurs&#8217; favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Cole Palmer was sent off and is suspended for Wednesday night&#8217;s Carabao Cup tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was also the surprise absence of star striker Joao Pedro, with his fitness likely to be another topic at today&#8217;s news conference (13:30 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the trip to Anfield, struggling Manchester United travel to Stamford Bridge for Saturday&#8217;s early kick-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a challenging week for Alonso, who may face tougher questions today after Chelsea&#8217;s two-game winning run since the international break had appeared to put them back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alonso has new headaches at Chelsea in big weekpublished at 13:33 GMT 13:33 GMT Liverpool v Chelsea (Wed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-666891","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\/666891","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=666891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}