{"id":772917,"date":"2026-09-16T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772917\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:32:12","slug":"efl-cup-live-text-commentary-from-four-games-in-the-third-round-score-team-news-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772917\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Cup LIVE: Text commentary from four games in the third round &#8211; score, team news &#038; match stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Terrible week for Man Utd&#8217;published at 22:11 BST<\/p>\n<p>22:11 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Man Utd 2-3 Brighton<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8a96f4d5-3a6f-4904-90b3-9a61fc8ae62e.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Clinton Morrison<br \/>Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 Live at Old Trafford<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terrible week for Man Utd. Nowhere near good enough. It&#8217;s been a bad start for Man Utd all season. When Man City went down to 10 men on the weekend it wasn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can strengthen in midfield and attacking areas, defensively, you have to start strengthening. You&#8217;re conceding way too many goals. For a club like Man Utd to be 2-0 up and lose 3-2, it&#8217;s nowhere near good enough. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youri Tielemans of Manchester United looks dejected\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cce50ff8-bcb9-4861-bf9f-441d1614f3fd.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terrible week for Man Utd&#8217;published at 22:11 BST 22:11 BST FT: Man Utd 2-3 Brighton Clinton MorrisonFormer Crystal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772917","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\/772917","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=772917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}