The League Cup Miseries

Roy Hodgson wonders what's wrong with his team.

League Cup was in action on the last two days and quite a lot of Premier League teams were left out on their first game. Pretty unusual for me. Here are some of the big ones:

• Chelsea got knocked out by the old time giant Newcastle. The Blue Lions were forced to play with 10 men in the last 20 minutes because of Benayoun's injury and there were no more substitutions available. Pretty sarcastic though, as Drogba had just released the statement of aiming quadruple a day before.
• What's worse than got sliced by a team three leagues below of you? Northampton finished off Liverpool in penalty shootout. This is such a humiliation when there were half of the first team playing. Disgrace.
• Accompanying Liverpool on the exit is their Merseyside counterpart Everton. The defeat leaves Moyes on big pressure, as his best result so far were only two draws.
• Manchester City is another who got kicked out of the Mickey Mouse tournament. Interestingly they have only three fit defenders currently to face Chelsea this week.
• On a different fate with them is Manchester United. Despite Ferguson's absence, their side was able to win comfortably against Scunthorpe. Joining them are the Gunners who had swept Tottenham with the same three goals margin.