Manchester united, Manchester city, Everton and Newcastle all progressed to the Carabao Cup quarter finals yesterday.
They joined Tottenham Hotspur who had previously scaled through in the hat for Thursday’s draw.
Winners of today’s tie between Liverpool / Arsenal, AVilla / Stoke, and Brentford / Fulham makes up the remaining slot.
Man Utd cooly dispatched Brighton 3-0 at the Amex, same stadium where they needed a Bruno Fernandes 100th minute penalty to secure victory.
Scott Mctominay, Mats and a Pogba freekick ensure an easy victory.
Raheem Sterling scored twice and new boy, Ferran Torres added a third as City put behind their shambolic display against Leicester over the weekend to ran out 3-0 at Burnley.
City’s progress is ominous for the rest of the side still in it as they have won the competition in the last three occasion.
Calvert Lewin scored his second hat trick in a little over a week as Everton clinically destroyed West Ham 4-1. Richarlison scored the other, while Robert Snodgrass scored the Hammers only goal.
Newcastle survived league two Newport scare as they secured passage via a 5-4 penalty shoot out after a 1-1 scoreline.
In other European matches, Bayern Munich won their second super cup in less than a week after winning the German super cup 3-2 against Borussia Dortmund.
Corentin Tolisso and Thomas Muller put Bayern two up, only to be pegged back by Julian Brandt and Erling Haaland. Joshua Kimmich restored their lead and another cup win.
In LaLiga, Real Madrid through Vinicius Junior, secured a 1-0 win over Real Valladolid to maintain the Spanish champions unbeaten start to the season.
Luis Suarez was unable to inspire Atletico Madrid to victory as they settled for a score-less draw at Huesca.
Villarreal beat Slaves 3-1, and Elche won at Eibar 1-0.
Inter Milan continued their perfect start in Serie A as Romelu Lukaku’s double set them on their way to a 5-2 win at Benevento.
In the other serie a game played Wednesday, Atalanta kept pace with Antonio Conte’s side with a resounding 4-1 win at Lazio.
