Five matches in EFL Cup first round - three go to penalties
Second-round draw made earlier - Man Utd visit Grimsby in highlight
Crisis club Sheff Wed beat Bolton on penalties after 3-3 thriller
Hamer levels from halfway line for Sheff Utd at Birmingham - but Stansfield wins it for Blues
Huddersfield twice equalise against Leicester and beat Foxes in shootout
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Birmingham 1-1 Sheff Utd
Andy Giddings
BBC Radio Sheffield commentator
What ever happens here tonight, Gus Hamer's goal is the highlight of tonight.
From nothing they are level. United need to take some confidence from this now.
Can Sheffield United go on and win it from here?
Huddersfield 2-2 Leicester
Boos ring around the home stands as another penalty appeal is waved away by David Webb, Jay Smith-Sway going to ground under pressure from the backtracking Kasey McAteer.
Might have been harsh, but they really should still have one in the wood from the first half, if we're honest.
Penalties are looming large, no extra-time tonight.
Gustavo Hamer (72 mins)
Image source, PA MediaWow - just wow!
On the halfway line Gustavo Hamer spots James Beadle off his line and drifts a wonder strike over the backpedalling debutant.
It's Sheffield United's first effort on target!
Out of nowhere we are level.
Bolton 2-3 Sheff Wed
Ross Wallace
Ex-Sheffield Wednesday winger on BBC Radio Sheffield
The character of these players is brilliant!
They have been pegged back twice and they have gone back ahead again.
They have been on the front foot all match and it shows the character of these young lads to keep going.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Dovydas Sasnauskas has had a difficult evening but he does well to get in the way of a Willum Willumsson blockbuster to deflect it behind for a corner.
Christoph Klarer nods the set piece back into the six-yard area and the visitors scramble it away.
Somehow Sheffield United are still alive in this tie.
Reece Johnson (80 mins)
Bonkers game, this.
As in the first half the visitors have restored their lead within minutes of Bolton equalising, this time it's teenage debutant Reece Johnson who catches the trotters defence napping, bursting into the left of the area and slotting coolly under the onrushing Tyler Miller from an angle.
Neat finish and those travelling fans love it. They really want to play Leeds in round two, it appears.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Ethan Laird takes a breather for Bright Osay-Samuel for Birmimgham.
Tommy Doyle also gets the hook and Paik Seung-Ho is on.
Bolton 2-2 Sheff Wed
It really should be 3-2 to the Owls.
Charlie McNeill is in acres of space as a low cross from the left is whipped across goal, it looks like he's expecting it to be cut out so when the ball breaks to him he can only drag wide of the near post tamely.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Birmingham have the ball in the net from a corner but it's disallowed.
Referee Gavin Ward has already blown his whistle to call time on a wrestling match at the near post before the kick is taken.
Thierry Gale (77 mins)
Image source, Rex FeaturesBolton have been probing for a leveller and they have one.
Amario COzier-Duberry had an effort cleared off the line by Ernie Weaver moments earlier but this time a ball into the Owls box causes havoc before Thierry Gale picks his spot inside Pierce Charles' left-hand post to bring the 10-men level.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Not quite so many chances created by Birmingham in this second period.
But just as I type that there's a defensive slip by Tyler Bindon but Tommy Doyle's effort is saved.
Birmingham have had 15 shots to Sheffield United's three so far...
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Ian Clarkson
Ex-Birmingham captain on BBC Radio WM
We have got 30 minutes to go and and Blues need to keep doing what they are doing, which is pressing high up the pitch.
There are a couple of warning signs here for Blues and Sydie Peck is looking very threatening.
Both teams are really going for it now.
Cameron Ashia (76 mins)
Image source, PA MediaWhat a goal. Again.
Cameron Ashia drives in from the left, given the freedom of HD1 and opts to have a pop, curling a powerful strike across goal from an angle and into Jakub Stolarczyk's far top corner.
The fans have been treated to some special strikes tonight...
Ashia is only 18. The EFL Cup first round is a stage for future stars to shine, clearly.
Huddersfield 1-2 Leicester
Foxes sub Louis Page, only 17, bundles his way forward, spins on a sixpence on the edge of the Town area but is just off balance as he blazes an effort well over the angle of post and bar.
The present might be a touch murky, but the future of Leicester City looks incredibly bright. Some academy they have there.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Image source, Getty ImagesRuben Selles has seen enough - he's already made a change at the break and now on come three more substitutes.
After his shenanigans with the referee a few moments ago, Jack Robinson is off and on comes Tyler Bindon.
Djibril Soumare is replaced by Gustavo Hamer and Tyrese Campbell is on for Ryan One.
Birmingham withdraw the goalscorer Kyogo Furuhashi and it's Jay Stansfield who gets a run - not a bad change!
Image source, Rex FeaturesHuddersfield 1-2 Leicester
Huddersfield have quite a squad this season.
Joe Taylor and Alfie May are off the bench to hunt an equaliser, with Ruben Roosken and Dion Charles the ones to make way.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Sheffield United skipper Jack Robinson was cautioned in the first period.
Referee Gavin Ward wants him to take a throw-in from the right place and Robinson gives him a sarcastic thumbs-up.
The official tells him to calm down - a more stringent referee might have brandished a second card.
Harry Winks (68 mins)
Lovely finish, and parity didn't last long.
It's the two new arrivals who combine for City with Stephy Mavididi running down the left, throwing in a couple of stepovers, and then sliding across for Harry Winks who opens up his body nicely and passes the ball across goal and inside Lee Nicholls' far post with the aplomb of a former England international.
Foxes are 20-odd minutes from a trip to Sunderland in round two.
Birmingham 1-0 Sheff Utd
Ethan Laird sprints away down the right.
He gets a cross in but can't pick out a blue shirt.
Kyogo Furuhashi then blasts an effort over.
Different half, same pattern.
Daniel Vost (65 mins)
Image source, Rex FeaturesDion Charles' low spot-kick is saved to his left by Jakub Stolarczyk but 19-year-old Daniel Vost is following in intently and rises highest to head the rebound into the roof of the net past the despairing dive of the City keeper.
Game on.
