I can\u2019t believe it, but we\u2019re already talking about the Carabao Cup. It feels early, doesn\u2019t it feel early? That\u2019s probably because Tottenham are actually in the 2nd round since they finished outside of Europe. The draw just completed, and Spurs drew a peach \u2014 home to Charlton Athletic.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a good draw. You\u2019d like to avoid Championship and Premier League clubs in the early rounds of the League Cup, but Charlton finished 19th out of 24 teams in the table last season. They weren\u2019t very good \u2014 their leading scorer, midfielder Sonny Carey, had just eight goals last season, and they\u2019ll be going up against a Spurs team with something to prove at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Can\u2019t ask for much more than that \u2014 Spurs get a low-finishing second division team at home and avoid clubs like Chelsea, West Ham, or any number of tiny giant-killers in waiting at their minuscule home grounds. It\u2019s good.<\/p>\n
This is the first time Tottenham has played Charlton since a 3-0 win for Spurs in the FA Cup back in 2011.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the whole draw for the 2nd round of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n
All told there aren\u2019t too many tasty matchups in this draw. The closest might be Nottingham Forest vs. Leeds United in the Northern division \u2014 unless I missed something that\u2019s the only match up between two Premier League clubs in this round. We\u2019ll likely get more of that in Round 3 when the rest of the Premier League joins the fray.<\/p>\n
The 2nd round matchups will take place the week of August 24; exact dates have not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t believe it, but we\u2019re already talking about the Carabao Cup. It feels early, doesn\u2019t it feel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99,7021],"class_list":["post-809369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}