Gary O’Neil painted a bleak picture of the situation at Wolves and admitted “no magic wand” will fix their problems after a 3-2 loss at Ipswich in the Carabao Cup third round.Wolves slumped to a fifth defeat in eight matches under the former Bournemouth manager, who only took over on August 9 following the departure of Julen Lopetegui by mutual consent.O’Neil made 10 chan...Full Story »

Port Vale boss Andy Crosby feels his side’s place in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup is “reward for a lot of things”.Vale reached the last 16 for the first time since 2006-07 with a 2-1 victory over Sky Bet League Two strugglers Sutton, with Funso Ojo coming off the bench to fire home a superb winner.Swansea loanee Josh Thomas had earlier opened the scoring before his effor...Full Story »

Vincent Kompany admitted his Burnley side had done nothing out of the ordinary in sweeping aside Sky Bet League Two Salford to reach the last 16 of the Carabao Cup.The Clarets put their Premier League struggles to one side in a 4-0 victory at the Peninsula Stadium with all four scorers – Sander Berge, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Dara O’Shea and Wilson Odobert – getting their first goal...Full Story »

Michael Carrick feels Middlesbrough are starting to finally find their form as they progressed to the fourth round of the Carabao Cup with a 2-0 win at Bradford.Boro, who only won for the first time in the Championship this season at the weekend, made seven changes from that victory over Southampton but started brightly and went in front through Emmanuel Latte-Lath.Morgan Rogers’ close-ran...Full Story »

Steven Naismith hailed match-winner Alex Lowry as a special talent after the on-loan Rangers player’s late goal sent Hearts into the Viaplay Cup semi-finals.Kilmarnock were in the ascendancy as the match edged closer to extra time, only for Lowry to strike in time added on to the regulation 90 minutes.Brad Lyons had earlier cancelled out Jorge Grant’s opener before Lowry claimed his ...Full Story »

Sam Bowen’s fine strike proved to be the difference as Wealdstone beat Woking in the Vanarama National League.The hosts had won just one of their previous seven games before Bowen struck from the edge of the box to seal a 1-0 victory.Bowen’s goal came just after the 15-minute mark and he almost repeated the feat five minutes later but this time shot wide.Goalkeeper Jed Ward made a nu...Full Story »

Luton boss Rob Edwards admitted his side deserved to be on the end of an upset as they crashed out of the Carabao Cup with a 1-0 defeat at Exeter.Demetri Mitchell scored the only goal of the game in the 83rd minute, poking in from close range from Yanic Wildschut’s cross, before he was sent off two minutes from time after collecting a second yellow card.Toothless Luton, who made 10 changes...Full Story »

Barnet turned on the style in the second half to crush York 4-2 in the Vanarama National League.The home side actually started the better, going ahead through Dipo Akinyemi’s seventh-minute lobbed opener.But Barnet hit back, Idris Kanu having a goal ruled out for offside before Harry Pritchard equalised from the edge of the box (12).Kanu gave the visitors the lead from close range (64) and...Full Story »

Solihull Moors extended their unbeaten start to the Vanarama National League season with an impressive 2-0 victory at Hartlepool.Andy Whing’s side have now won seven and drawn five as goals from Joe Newton and Callum Maycock saw them leave the Suit Direct Stadium with three points.Newton capped off an early move to put the visitors ahead inside 10 minutes, with Maycock slotting home to dou...Full Story »

Kidderminster remain rooted to the foot of the Vanarama National League after losing at home to Oldham.The 2-1 loss means the hosts have won just one of their opening 12 games of the new campaign.In-form Devarn Green opened the scoring for the Latics with a fine strike which separated the sides at the interval.Bailey Hobson tapped home from close-range to level for Kidderminster just after the h...Full Story »