Swindon Town -- 13th in League One last season; won opener, 3-1, against Tranmere v. QPR -- 14th in the Championship last season; won opener, 2-1, against Barnsley ------ 12 August 2008 19:45 County Ground ------ The R's were knocked out of this competition by Orient at this stage last season. Can Dowie and co. do better? See the excellent match preview at loftforwords.co.uk and the match preview on the official site. Rowlands is still suspended. Vine and Buzsaky are still injured. Ephraim should be available after suffing with shin splints. Stewart and Di Carmine return from suspension. Former Ranger Pat Kanyuka plays for Swindon now, but will miss out with a hamstring injury. [R] in this thread for all Carling Cup games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
You can have seven on the bench, rather than five, in League Cup play. Here are the lineups: Swindon Town: Brezova, Smith, Timlin, Aljofree, McGovern, McNamee, Casal, Nalis, Paynter, Morrison, Cox. Subs: Smith, Easton, Joyce, Kennedy, Peacock, Allen, Amankwaah. QPR: Camp; Delaney, Stewart, Gorkss, Connolly; Cook, Leigertwood, Parejo, Ledesma; Blackstock, Balanta. Subs: Cerny, Agyemang, Bolder, Ramage, Alberti, Di Carmine, Ainsworth. According to the offish, Delaney is wearing the armband.
Blimey - there's about 50 commentaries to choose from tonight... http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/sub/LiveCommentary/AudioCommentary/0,,10373,00.html? Think I'll go for QPR away at Swindon So happy it's football season again.
The Rs are wearing the third shirt (black) tonight. After a slow start, sounds like they're getting forward now. Away fans sounding good too.
Chance for Swindon, cleared away for a Swindon header. Shot in - tipped over by Camp. Come on Rs, tighten up!
Few interesting scores out there... Crewe 1 (Michael O'Connor Pen 14) Barnsley 0 Bournemouth 0 Cardiff 2 (Paul Parry 12) And the Sky/Setanta match is a good one - Chester 1 (Ryan Lowe 15) Leeds 2
Leeds are 3-1 up - Chester have now conceded 9 goals in the first 115 minutes of the season. Ouch! Ledesma nice free kick knocked away
Rough night so far for Championship clubs! Charlton 0 Yeovil 1 (Paul Warne 28) Macclesfield 1 (Shaun Brisley 25) Blackpool 0
It's a wild, wide open match. I think there have been about 7 or 8 corners. "One of the best games I've seen in a long time" says the Radio Wiltshire commentator.
Crewe 2 (Anthony Elding Pen 36) Barnsley 0 Milton Keynes Dons 1 (Sam Baldock 34) Norwich 0 Chester 1 Leeds 5 (Jermaine Beckford 35, Hat-trick) You've got to love the Football League!
You've got to be kidding me 2-1 Swindon Billy Painter in the 41st minute. Beautiful diving header apparently.
Wolverhampton 0 Accrington Stanley 1 (Paul Mullin 40) Has April Fool's Day come late this year? Parejo hits the outside of the post
That's HT Time for me to catch my breath - time for Dowie to raise hell and tell these defenders to get it together!
No, and since it's the Swindon announcers, they're not really paying attention to that. They just can't believe how fast paced the match is - can barely keep up.
I know I'm diarrhea posting... but this is a wild night Crystal Palace 0 Hereford 1 (Moses Ashikodi 41)