{"id":750078,"date":"2026-08-26T07:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750078\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:26:23","slug":"efl-cup-live-build-up-team-news-live-text-score-updates-as-it-happens-from-across-the-efl-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750078\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Cup LIVE: Build-up, team news, live text &#038; score updates as it happens from across the EFL Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ability in the squad is unbelievable&#8217;published at 22:07 BST 25 August<\/p>\n<p>22:07 BST 25 August<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Nottingham Forest 0-2 Leeds<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds defender Joe Rodon, speaking to ITV Sport: &#8220;In the first half, there were a lot of good chances. We know that it&#8217;s a difficult place to come, overall I&#8217;m happy to come back and win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Daniel James: &#8220;Injuries are a part of the game, we know what he&#8217;s capable of, he showed his quality and had a great finish. We need everyone, it&#8217;s a long season, the ability in the squad is unbelievable, we need everyone together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want to change the mentality, grow again as a group and win as many games as we can. The signs have been top, we want to continue with this momentum into next weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ability in the squad is unbelievable&#8217;published at 22:07 BST 25 August 22:07 BST 25 August FT: Nottingham Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}