Carabao Cup: Luck on Manchester United’s side as they see off Rochdale via penalties

By Peter Mwaura

Manchester United was made to labour for their Carabao third-round victory after neighbours Rochdale scored late to force the tie into penalty shootouts.

Mason Greenwood handed the lead to unite in the 68th minute of the match…….

Before 16-year-old Luke Matheson equalized for the visitors 14 minutes to the last whistle forcing the match into penalty shoot outs.

Experience paid off, in the end, Jimmy Keohane penalty being saved by Sergio Romero while United scored all five efforts.

In the meantime, it was raining goals at the Stamford Bridge as the blues scored 7-1 League Two side Grimsby Town.

Barkley, Batshuayi, Pedro, Zouma, James and Hudson-Odoi all netted for Frank Lampard’s side.

In other results Liverpool saw of Mk Dons 2-0 at their backyard, west Ham suffering a 4-0 defeat at Oxford United as Brighton saw Aston Villa off with a 3-1 victory.

These are fixtures in the round of 16:

Aston Villa vs Wolves

Everton vs Watford

Burton vs Leicester

Chelsea vs Manchester United

Manchester City vs Southampton

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Crawley Town vs Colchester

Oxford vs Sunderland