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Headlines Manchester city needed a goal from Phil Foden with 15 minutes remaining to say goodbye Bournemouth 2-1 and reach the fourth day of the League Cup, while Liverpool ran wild in a 7-2 win in Lincoln Thursday.
City have won the competition for the past three years, but Pep Guardiola admitted that he had been forced to appoint a youth team to prioritize his Premier League campaign due to a shortened preseason and a series of positive coronavirus tests.
Liam Delap, the son of former Stoke midfielder Rory Delap, took just 18 minutes to score in his City debut with a fine shot off the top corner of Foden’s pass.
“He is a different striker than we have in terms of physique. We see in training how good a spiker he is,” Guardiola said of the 17-year-old.
However, the lead lasted just four minutes when Bournemouth’s Sam Sturridge swung into the City area before firing into the far corner.
Guardiola introduced the artillery he had on the bench after the break on Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling, but it was another first-team starter at Foden who made the breakthrough after Riyad Mahrez’s shot soared up the post.
City will travel to Burnley in the round of 16.
Liverpool will face Arsenal twice at Anfield in three days next week after Jurgen Klopp’s much-changed side hit Lincoln seven-times with Takumi Minamino and Curtis Jones scoring twice.
“Everyone took the opportunity tonight to introduce themselves, that’s very important,” Klopp said.
“Who shows the desire we saw tonight, who shows the attitude we saw tonight, who shows so many things that I like and want to see when a Liverpool team shows up, then there is a great chance that you will get a lot of games. during the season. “
Xherdan Shaqiri opened the floodgates with a brilliant free kick that hit the bottom of the bar.
Minamino huddled together to double the lead of the Premier League champions before Curtis Jones scored two goals in four minutes to make it 4-0 before the break.
A minute after the second half, Minamino had his second, but League One Lincoln responded to score two goals to remember the night.
Tayo Edun finished off a great team play and Lewis Montsma headed in a corner.
But Liverpool continued to find the net at the other end when Marko Grujic briefly made it 6-1 before Divock Origi completed the score.
Bertrand Traore marked his Aston Villa debut with an impressive side volley to score his team’s second goal in a comfortable 3-0 win at Bristol City.
Anwar El Ghazi opened the scoring 11 minutes before Traore showed why Villa spent £ 17 million to sign him from Lyon last week with a nice finish from a narrow angle.
Another new kid from Villa, Ollie Watkins, scored his first goal for the club with 17 minutes remaining, as Dean Smith’s men set up a round of 16 clash with Stoke.
