London’s midweek Carabao Cup results were as bang average as a midweek visit to Camden Market on a rainy day in November.

Wimbledon and West Ham both went out away from home to a side in their own division.

The Wombles lost 2-1 at struggling Reading while ‘one game away from crisis club‘ West Ham lost 3-2 at Wolves, the only other EPL club that has no points from the league season so far.

If that was embarassing, Charlton lost to a side two divisions and 45 places below them at Cambridge United in the capital’s worst result of the week after manager Nathan Jones had selected a completely different starting XI from Saturday’s defeat to Leicester City.

After the game, he admitted:

“I don’t want to use any adjectives that are disrespectful, but we were way off our level, we were outbattled, outfought.”

On the positive side, Fulham, Millwall and Brentford all won.

Fulham beat Bristol City 2-0 while MiIlwall triumphed 2-1 over Coventry City also at home.

But the best result of the midweek went to Keith Andrews’ Brentford who added to their weekend win over Aston Villa, with a 0-2 away to EPL Bournemouth.

Fábio Carvalho (34′) and Igor Thiago (65) scored to give the Bees a surpringly comfortable progression.

Their reward in the next round is another crack at the side they beat this weekend, Aston Villa, again at home in Middlesex.

Fulham will be delighted to have drawn Cambridge at Craven Cottage. There should be no excuses for them not to progress and be the laughing stock that is Manchester United, eliminated at Grimsby this evening.

Millwall however have an eye-wateing tie with a visit to Selhurst Park to play Crystal Palace in a south London derby.

8.8 miles separate these teams although to be fair, they both have more intense rivalries with other sides further away due to historical reasons.

The sides playing in Europe received byes for the early rounds but enter now. They faired reasonably well in the draw.

Arsenal visit the Potteries to play Port Vale, still without a win this season in League One.

Tottenham will be delighted with a home tie against on form South Yorkshire club Doncaster while Chelsea visit the equally on form  League One side Lincoln City who like Doncaster have ten points from their first five games.

These third round fixtures will be played over two weeks starting on 15 September with Champions League and Europa League fixtures also sprinkled among that period.

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