Goals galore - the wildest scores in EFL Cup history

ByJude Winter

BBC Sport journalist

The Carabao Cup is back.

Some clubs usage the aboriginal rounds to springiness acquisition to young players, shingle disconnected the past of their pre‑season rust and possibly sneak an aboriginal play upset, but that tin besides effect successful immoderate staggering scorelines.

From 12‑goal thrillers to 10-0 humiliations and punishment shootouts that endanger to past astir arsenic agelong arsenic the lucifer itself, the EFL Cup has had it each implicit the years.

Here's a look astatine the immoderate of the astir chaotic games the contention has ever produced...

Round one, 13 August 2014, Victoria Road

Let's commencement disconnected with a bang and speech astir the joint-highest scoring EFL Cup necktie successful history.

The necktie betwixt Dagenham & Redbridge, past successful League Two, and a Brentford broadside precocious promoted to the Championship whitethorn not person looked the astir absorbing connected paper, but it surely delivered a gripping match.

A singular lucifer was level astatine 4-4 aft 90 minutes and the goals kept coming successful extra-time.

The Daggers took the pb for the archetypal clip successful the 113th infinitesimal and looked acceptable to advancement arsenic they led 6-5 precocious on, earlier Brentford's Harlee Dean scored successful the 117th infinitesimal to instrumentality the lucifer to penalties.

After Jack Connors and Ashley Chambers missed for Dagenham, skipper Kevin O'Connor stepped up to people the winning spot-kick for Brentford.

Round two, 20 September 2005, Adams Park

Aston Villa manager David O'Leary admitted his broadside were "on the verge" of being portion of a cupful daze erstwhile they faced Wycombe Wanderers successful 2005.

But having trailed the League Two broadside 3-1 astatine half-time, Villa responded with 7 goals successful the 2nd fractional to unafraid the win.

Some Villa fans reacted angrily erstwhile goals from Nathan Tyson, Roger Johnson and Tommy Mooney enactment Wycombe successful a beardown presumption astatine the halfway stage.

But goals from Milan Baros and James Milner made it 3-3, earlier a Craig Easton ain goal, 2 from Gareth Barry and further strikes from Milner and Steven Davis completed an emphatic turnaround.

Second round, 2nd leg, 25 October 1983, Boleyn Ground

We're going backmost to the days erstwhile the aboriginal rounds had 2 legs, the tourney was called the Milk Cup, and the time West Ham United recorded their grounds win.

There was small informing that an eye‑catching scoreline was coming, fixed John Lyall's Division One leaders had lone edged the first‑leg necktie 2-1 astatine Fourth Division Bury.

But West Ham raced to a 5-0 half‑time lead, with Alvin Martin, Trevor Brooking and Tony Cottee tearing Bury apart.

Cottee completed his hat‑trick earlier the interruption and the Hammers were conscionable arsenic ruthless successful the 2nd half.

Cottee added his fourth, Alan Devonshire got another, Ray Stewart buried a penalty, and Brooking tapped successful precocious connected arsenic West Ham reached treble figures.

Fourth round, 30 October 2012, Madejski Stadium

An unthinkable match, the joint-highest scoring EFL Cup necktie successful history, and it took extra-time to find a winner.

Still without a triumph successful their instrumentality to the Premier League, Reading threw distant immoderate joyousness their fans were feeling arsenic they led Arsenal 4-0 by capitulating to suffer 7-5.

Arsenal recovered themselves 4 down aft 35 minutes, but Theo Walcott's extremity earlier half‑time sparked a comeback that dragged the lucifer into extra-time.

Marouane Chamakh enactment Arsenal successful beforehand for the archetypal clip connected the nighttime with a extremity successful the archetypal play of extra-time, lone for Reading striker Pavel Pogrebnyak to marque it 5-5.

But Walcott restored Arsenal's pb earlier Chamakh completed the scoring.

A singular nighttime was further added to by the faintly ridiculous infinitesimal erstwhile Olivier Giroud and Francis Coquelin threw their shirts into the crowd, reasoning the lucifer was over, lone to person to awkwardly inquire for them backmost erstwhile they realised extra‑time was inactive to come.

Semi-final archetypal leg, 9 January 2019, Etihad Stadium

Burton Albion's archetypal large semi‑final was somewhat ruined arsenic they were roundly thrashed by Manchester City.

The 3,000 Brewers fans had to conflict immoderate M6 chaos conscionable to get determination and immoderate mightiness person wished they'd stayed stuck successful traffic.

Nigel Clough's broadside had beaten a substance of Premier League and Championship sides to get to the past 4 but were powerless to halt a rampant City side.

Gabriel Jesus scored four, with Kevin de Bruyne, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Phil Foden, Kyle Walker and Riyad Mahrez besides scoring against the beleaguered League One side.

After Burton's fairy communicative cupful tally yet ended, Clough said that Pep Guardiola invited him successful for a solid of vino and quipped helium hoped the Spaniard had "more than a glass."

The 2nd limb finished 1-0 astatine the Pirelli Stadium, sealing a 10–0 aggregate triumph for City.

Second circular archetypal leg, 23 September 1986, Anfield

League champions Liverpool showed their people with a 10-goal demolition of Fulham.

Steve McMahon scored 4 and missed a punishment arsenic the Third Division broadside were swept speech astatine Anfield.

Ian Rush and John Wark struck early, Ronnie Whelan added a third, and McMahon scored either broadside of Wark's second.

He deed the barroom from the spot earlier making it seven, with further goals from Rush, McMahon and Nicol sealing the club's biggest triumph successful home competition.

Liverpool past won the 2nd limb 3-2, advancing 13-2 connected aggregate.

Third round, 17 September 2024, Deepdale

Yes, 1-1 isn't the astir memorable scoreline, but the third-round necktie betwixt Preston North End and Fulham successful 2024 makes it into the grounds books aft producing the longest punishment shootout successful the competition's history.

A full of 34 spot kicks were taken – 31 of which were successfully converted – arsenic Paul Heckingbottom's men booked their spot successful circular four.

Just erstwhile it seemed the shootout whitethorn ne'er end, Fulham's Timothy Castagne blazed his spot-kick implicit the barroom and Preston midfielder Ryan Ledson – who scored the game's opener successful the 36th infinitesimal – fired successful the decisive penalty.

The shootout eclipsed the erstwhile grounds acceptable successful 2016 erstwhile Derby County bushed Carlisle United 14-13 connected penalties.