Around 60,000 at the London Stadium tonight. That's a superb effort. Will they see Manchester City knocked out of the competition for the first time in five years?

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There are five substitutes available to managers tonight. We might see that in the Premier League too soon...

Football law makers, the International Football Association Board (Ifab), have recommended five substitutions are implemented permanently in the sport.

The rule was first introduced in May 2020 - a month before football restarted after being paused because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Premier League voted against its continuation in the 2020-21 season.

Individual football leagues and competitions will be able to decide whether or not to implement the rules.

The decision follows a meeting chaired by Fifa on Wednesday, involving Ifab's Football and Technical Advisory Panels.

Read more here.

Leicester might be looking for a bit of revenge tonight. They lost 2-1 at Brighton in the league in September.

Albion bossed the first hour of the contest and led through Neal Maupay's penalty and a Danny Welbeck goal.

Jamie Vardy pulled one back, but that was the end of the scoring.

There was a controversial finish, though, as the Foxes twice thought they had rescued a point in the closing stages but Ademola Lookman and Wilfred Ndidi both saw goals chalked off for Harvey Barnes straying offside.

Read the full report here.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Former West Ham defender Scott Minto, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: "Manchester City have made nine changes but the team they have put out here would still finish in a top-four Champions League place.

"That's the strength of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City. They have made changes over the years but they have not been knocked out of this competition for five years. That's outrageous."

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Tonight completes the Manchester set for West Ham in this season's Carabao Cup. The Hammers reached the last 16 thanks to a 1-0 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Manuel Lanzini scoring the only goal after nine minutes.

This evening, they host Manchester City in what is likely to be a tougher test, even with team changes being made.

City are here because they brushed aside Wycombe, beating them 6-1 after the League One side had had the temerity to equalise in the first half.

Cole Palmer scored in that game, as he did in the 5-1 Champions League win at Club Brugge. There'll be a fair few people eager to see some more of him tonight.

Micah Richards
Former England defender

I still remember the thrill of making my first-team debut for Manchester City aged 17 - at the time it was the best day of my life - so I always love to see other kids getting their big chance.

That hasn't happened much at City in recent years, until now.

Pep Guardiola has already given debuts to eight graduates from the academy in the Community Shield and Carabao Cup this season, and hopefully we will see a bit more of them in the fourth round at West Ham United on Wednesday.

There's so much talent in this crop of youngsters, who are a lot more technical than the players City were producing 15 years or so ago when I came through. I'm not surprised there is so much excitement about them, especially because so many of them are English.

The best of the bunch might be Cole Palmer - some of the touches I've seen from him are unreal, and he is an exceptional talent.

Read more from Micah Richards

Manchester City remain the team to beat in this competition. They've won it four times on the trot and six times in the last eight seasons. Often during those runs, they have blooded young players in the side, something boss Pep Guardiola has leaned it heavily this season.

A player who knows what it takes to come through the City academy to star for the first team is Micah Richards and he has been talking to BBC Sport about that very journey and some of those who made it with him...

Liverpool

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Sky Sports on his team selection: "I know how difficult it is when you don't play four or five games in a row but I trust the boys. I'm very positive about the boys and I hope they can enjoy the game."

On teenagers Tyler Morton and Harvey Blair: "They're good footballers, Tyler you probably saw already against Norwich. I really hope the boys can enjoy the match - especially these two."

On Neco Williams: "For Neco of course it is important he can go 90 [minutes] tonight, that would be really good. He is finding his feet again. I'm looking forward to him showing what he can do tonight."

George Cummins
BBC Radio 5 live

Harry Winks has been left at home for Tottenham’s Carabao Cup tie with Burnley tonight.

The midfielder hasn’t featured since his comments about a lack of minutes under Nuno Espirito Santo after the defeat to Vitesse in the Europa Conference League last week.

“We are meant to be a team. It’s meant to be competition. It’s meant to be competitive” the Spurs academy graduate said. “Everybody should be fighting for weekends games and its difficult. We want to win for Tottenham, to win games and pull in the same direction. But when you are not playing regularly it’s difficult to get that confidence as a team.”

Winks, who hasn’t got an injury, was also absent from the Tottenham squad for Sundays defeat to West Ham.

BBC Radio 5 Live

As well as this live text commentary for the games, there is radio coverage of tonight's Carabao Cup action on BBC Radio 5 Live.

The feature game is Liverpool's trip to Preston, but there will be updates from the other matches too.

You can tune in to 5 Live by pressing the play button at the top of this page or on BBC Sounds. Or you can go old school and find it on an actual radio.

Five changes for Stoke with 21-year-old Tyrese Campbell among the starters. Joe Allan is not involved while Harry Souttar is captain.

Stoke XI: Bursik, Ostigard, Souttar, Wilmot, Duhaney, Sawyers, Thompson, Tymon, Doughty, Fletcher, Campbell.

Substitutes: Sima, Davies, Smith, Chester, Vrancic, Brown, Oakley-Boothe, Surridge, Ince.

Eight changes for Brentford who start with Ivan Toney up front.

Marcus Forss, who scored four times in the last round against Oldham, comes back into the team.

Brentford XI: Fernandez, Ajer, Goode, Jorgensen, Roerslev, Bidstrup, Jensen, Ghoddos, Canos, Forss, Toney.

Substitutes: Thompson, Henry, Norgaard, Onyeka, Fosu, Maghoma, Stevens, Oyegoke, Cox.

Defender Caglar Soyuncu is the only player to remain from the Leicester side that beat Brentford on Sunday, with Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers making 10 changes for the Carabao Cup.

Patson Daka, who scored four in the Europa League last week, starts up top for the hosts.

Leicester XI: Ward, Daley-Campbell, Soyuncu, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Thomas, Dewsbury-Hall, Choudhury, Barnes, Lookman, Daka.

Brighton make eight changes following their defeat by Manchester City in the Premier League, with only Joel Veltman, Dan Burn and Pascal Gross keeping their places.

Brighton XI: Steele, Veltman, Duffy, Webster, Roberts, Burn, Mac Allister, Gross, Locadia, Connolly, Sarmiento.

Sean Dyche makes five changes to his Burnley side for this Carabao Cup tie, with Connor Roberts making his debut and Ben Mee, Erik Pieters, Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Matej Vydra also coming in.

Burnley XI: Pope, Roberts, Mee, Collins, Pieters, McNeil, Cork, Brownhill, Gudmundsson, Rodriguez, Vydra.

Tottenham have made six changes to the team beaten by West Ham in the Premier League on Sunday, with Pierluigi Gollini, Davinson Sanchez, Ben Davies, Giovani Lo Celso, Steven Bergwijn and Bryan Gil coming into the side.

Harry Kane captains the visitors, but there is no place in the squad for Dele Alli or Harry Winks.

Spurs XI: Gollini, Royal, Romero, Sanchez, Davies, Hojbjerg, Skipp, Lo Celso, Bergwijn, Bryan, Kane.

Eight changes for West Ham with Ben Johnson, Aaron Creswell and Tomas Soucek the players who started the 1-0 win over Tottenham last Sunday.

Manuel Lanzini, who hit the winner at Manchester United in the last round, starts.

West Ham XI: Areola, Johnson, Dawson, Diop, Cresswell, Soucek, Noble, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Masuaku, Vlasic.

Substitutes: Zouma, Coufal, Fornals, Bowen, Benrahma, Randolph, Ashby, Chesters, Baptiste.

Nine changes for holders Manchester City, who welcome back Raheem Sterling from a back problem.

The two survivors from the weekend win at Brighton are Kyle Walker and Ilkay Gundogan. Kevin de Bruyne also starts.

Man City XI: Steffen, Walker, Stones, Ake, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Mahrez, Palmer, Sterling.

Substitutes: Dias, Jesus, Grealish, Laporte, Rodri, Cancelo, Carson, Foden, Edozie.

Preston North End manager Frankie McAvoy has named nine changes to his side following Saturday's 2-0 Championship defeat by local rivals Blackpool.

Having been given permission to face his parent club, Liverpool loanee Sepp van den Berg retains his place - as does fellow defender Andrew Hughes.

Preston XI: Rudd, Van Den Berg, Cunningham, Lindsay, McCann, Rafferty, Hughes, Ledson, Maguire, Barkhuizen, Potts.

Subs: Iversen, Bauer, Huntington, Storey, Earl, Whiteman, Johnson, Sinclair, Riis.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has named an entirely different side to the one which started Sunday's memorable 5-0 league victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Among those starting tonight are teenagers Tyler Morton, making his full debut after appearing as a substitute in the Carabao Cup third round victory over Norwich City, and Harvey Blair, making his first senior appearance for the Reds.

Meanwhile, Takumi Minamino and Divock Origi start in attack following their third round goals.

Liverpool XI: Adrian, Williams, Matip, Gomez, Tsimikas, Morton, Jones, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Blair, Minamino, Origi.

Subs: Hughes, Pitaluga, Konate, Firmino, Jota, Dixon-Bonner, Phillips, Beck, Bradley.

Speaking of team news...

We had three last-16 ties yesterday, which saw Arsenal, Chelsea and Sunderland progress.

Tonight, the remaining five ties will be played to a conclusion. Here are the games...

Stoke v Brentford

West Ham v Man City

Leicester v Brighton

Burnley v Tottenham

Preston v Liverpool

So eight Premier League teams and a couple from the Championship. I reckon, in classic Carabao Cup fashion, a fair few team changes are highly likely.

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Evening everyone and welcome to another night of games to decide who gets beat by Manchester City at Wembley on 27 February next year.

Call me cynical if you must but the Carabao Cup hasn't been the most giving of tournaments of late if you support anyone that isn't the reigning holders and current English top-flight champions.

You never know, though. And with five of the supposed 'big six' clubs still in the competition at time of writing, we could well have a set of quarter-finals actually worth paying attention to this season.