Burnley's reward for their hard-fought win at the City Ground is a third-round EFL Cup clash at League Two side Salford City. Let's have a look at the draw in full...

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Despite the EFL Cup victory over Nottingham Forest, Burnley manager Vincent Kompany said he was concerned by a serious-looking injury to defender Hjalmar Ekdal, who was carried off on a stretcher following a collision in the box.

Summer signing Aaron Ramsey and Vitinho also limped off to leave Burnley with injury issues to deal with before Saturday's Premier League game against Tottenham at Turf Moor.

"One [injury] I think will be bad, it looked like it," said Kompany. "I will take any positive news on Ekdal. We hope Vitinho is not too bad. It looks a knee for both, for Ekdal we hope it is not going to be too bad. He was in a lot of pain. There was a cost to this game for sure."

BBC Sport has a dedicated Burnley page packed with news, analysis and fan views - get it here

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Burnley, meanwhile, have lost their opening two Premier League games but manager Vincent Kompany saw plenty of potential in his side's last-gasp EFL Cup win over Nottingham Forest: "Based on the performance, we would have always been pleased to get what we deserve, a result and clean sheet. A good win for the lads and into another round.

"Premier League teams have got such quality squads you don't weaken when you make changes. Forest's main players going forward were not starting, but we made changes and looked the same as us.

"Zeki has got a real goal threat, hopefully one of many. That is one exciting thing about our squad, there is potential for the future too."

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Nottingham Forest have lost two of their opening three Premier League games and are out of the EFL Cup.

Could manager Steve Cooper look to recruit more players to kick-start their season.

Today's gossip column has news of potential incoming and outgoings at the City Ground:

Nottingham Forest are closing in on a deal to take 22-year-old England winger Callum Hudson-Odoi from Chelsea. (Guardian, external)

Spurs are considering a move for Crystal Palace's England forward Eberechi Eze, 25, after a move for Nottingham Forest's Wales forward Brennan Johnson, 22, stalled. (Independent, external)

Want more transfer stories? Read Thursday's full gossip column

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Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper speaking on Wednesday night after his side's EFL Cup defeat by Burnley: "We got what we deserved in terms of the result. It does not need details today, it needs he basic fact that we fell short of our performance levels collectively and individually.

"It wasn't a great game, it had 0-0 written all over it but didn't feel we would concede. Technically we were miles off it today.

"It is something we need to look at, people will say we made a few changes but whether you have played the last few games or not, you have to be prepared to play. There is no reason why players should not hit the ground running with performance levels."

BBC Sport has a dedicated Forest page packed with news, analysis and fan views - get it here

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Substitute Zeki Amdouni struck a cool, last-minute winner as Burnley edged past Nottingham Forest to reach the third round of the EFL Cup.

Switzerland international Amdouni delightfully controlled Josh Brownhill's pass before firing a finish past Matt Turner for the winning goal and one of only two shots on target in the entire contest.

It gave Vincent Kompany's side their first victory of the season and sent four-time winners Forest out of the competition at the first hurdle.

With 11 minutes added on, Steve Cooper's side pushed for an equaliser to take the game to penalties, but Burnley held firm to put their name in the hat for the next round.

Read Shamoon Hafez's full report here.

Stuart McCall namechecked Nottingham Forest there. We will head to the City Ground next as manager Steve Cooper prepares to hold his weekly news conference ahead of Saturday's Premier League match at Chelsea.

Forest, of course, were knocked out of the EFL Cup on Wednesday night after losing 1-0 at home to Burnley.

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A final word from the Sheffield United camp following Wednesday night's defeat on penalties to Lincoln City in the EFL Cup.

Assistant manager Stuart McCall told BBC Radio Sheffield that the cup loss did not add further pressure to this weekend's Premier League clash with Everton, with both clubs seeking their first points of the season.

“It's not must-win," said McCall about Saturday's match against his former club. "We'd love to win but it's not the end of the season if we don't.

"I go back a long time, to when I was playing at Bradford, and I think we got almost a third of our points in the last five games.

“I think [Nottingham] Forest went a couple of months without getting a victory last season. We don't want that to happen, naturally, but we can't put it as a must-win, where if we come away with a point it's all doom and gloom.”

On transfer plans ahead of Friday's deadline: “We might hopefully get a couple of new faces in before the window closes. There have been some good signs from the players we've brought in and we're ready to give it a go.”

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Tottenham's name was mentioned, including by me, as being linked with Ansu Fati.

They were not in for the Barcelona youngster, apparently.

However, there is interest in Nottingham Forest's Brennan Johnson, which could yet turn into a concrete offer.

A lot of work is being done on outgoings though.

Hugo Lloris, Sergio Reguilon, Tanguy Ndombele, Japhet Tanganga and Eric Dier are all surplus to requirements and could leave.

In addition, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg wants to leave and Tottenham would let him go if a suitable offer came in.

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Simon Stone also has an update on Ansu Fati, who looks set to be heading from Barcelona to Brighton on loan...

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An update on Matheus Nunes, who has been cleared to have a medical in Manchester after a formal agreement was reached over his move from Wolves to Manchester City.

The deal was renegotiated late last night amid wrangling over some additional payments.

The transfer fee is now £53m – a club record sale for Wolves. There are no add-ons but there is a 10% sell-on from any profit City make on the deal.

In addition, Tommy Doyle will have his medical today for a season-long loan with a 5m euros (4.3m) option to buy.

Manchester City would have a 50% sell on fee for any profit Wolves make on him.

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Sheffield United captain John Egan missed the final penalty of the shootout after strikers Louie Marsh and Benie Traore had their spot-kicks saved by 6ft 6in goalkeeper Lukas Jensen, sending Lincoln City through 3-2 on penalties after the match ended 0-0.

"It's the best feeling," said Jensen, who did not make an appearance during a four-year spell at Burnley before joining Lincoln in June.

"I don't think you can describe it - you have to be in the moment. All the feelings and emotions came out.

"Big credit to my goalkeeper coach. I think they nicked my bottle, so I couldn't see where they were going to shoot.

"To do it in front of all our fans on that side is an amazing feeling - to have 3,000 fans cheering and celebrating with us after the game. All the credit should go to the team."

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Sheffield United assistant manager Stuart McCall, speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield, on being knocked out of the EFL Cup by League One Lincoln City: "No excuses - it was a flat performance. It would be easy to say it was on the back of Sunday and having a full house against Man City. We discussed that before the game - we have to make our own atmosphere.

"Lincoln brought a good contingent, filled their end and got behind their side.

"It's not to take anything away from Lincoln. They were good and you've got to give them credit. They defended really well in their shape and were hard to break down, but we've got to be creating more than that.

"The manager summed it up at the end - we were bored watching it. That's how we don't want our teams to play; we want to be on the front foot, creating chances and getting balls in the box."

Right, we are moving away from Europe and heading into last night's EFL Cup action.

League One Lincoln City enjoyed a famous win on penalties over newly-promoted Premier League side Sheffield United.

Burnley won against Nottingham Forest in an all top-flight clash, while Chelsea and Everton scraped through and there was also a big win for Championship club Blackburn.

Click on the links to read the reports, we will have reaction shortly, starting with the Blades' assistant manager Stuart McCall.

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Uefa's chief refereeing officer Roberto Rosetti backed Boban's comments and added that the European football governing body had been working for five years on other solutions to increase the amount of time the ball is in play.

"We tell our referees to speed up the restart of play instead of focusing on stoppage time," said Rosetti.

So what do you think the answer should be?

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Uefa's chief of football Zvonimir Boban - the former Croatia and AC Milan midfielder - has called the Premier League's new time-keeping policy "absolutely absurd".

Here is a bit more about what he had to say about the levels of time being added on to Premier League games: "Regarding player welfare, it's some kind of big tragedy because [they] are adding almost 12, 13, 14 minutes.

"When you play 60, 65 minutes - I can speak from my experience, especially as a midfielder - when you get tired, it's the last 30 minutes of the game. And then somebody comes and adds another 15 minutes.

"How often we have spoken critically about the calendar and too many games. We are not listening to players and coaches [about welfare]. It's crazy! It's too much, so we will not do this. Our guidelines are different."

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The new added-time rules in English football are "absurd" and will not be used in European competitions, according to Uefa's chief of football Zvonimir Boban.

England's refereeing body the PGMOL has opted to use longer amounts of stoppage time from this season in order to reduce time-wasting and better account for goal celebrations, substitutions and injuries.

But some players and managers have criticised the move on player welfare grounds.

"It's absolutely absurd," said Boban, who captained Croatia's famous 1998 World Cup team to a third-place finish.

Read the full story here.

It's a pointless exercise but one we all love to play.

Get in touch with your dream groups for this season's Champions League and tell us why.

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As mentioned, the draw for the Champions League group stages will be at 17:00 BST.

Here are the pots in full. The groups will include a team from each pot. No teams from the same country can be drawn in the same group:

Pot 1: Manchester City, Sevilla, Barcelona, Napoli, Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain, Benfica, Feyenoord

Pot 2: Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Atletico Madrid, RB Leipzig, Porto, Arsenal

Pot 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Salzburg, AC Milan, Braga, Lazio, Red Star Belgrade, PSV, FC Copenhagen

Pot 4: Real Sociedad, Galatasaray, Celtic, Newcastle United, Union Berlin, Lens, Antwerp, Young Boys

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We now know all 32 teams that will compete in this season's Champions League group stage.

The draw will take place today (Thursday) at 17:00 BST.

As the holders and Premier League champions, Manchester City will be in pot one, Arsenal and Manchester United are in pot two, while Celtic and Newcastle United are in pot four.

It is the Gunners' first Champions League campaign since the 2016-17 season, while the Magpies return to Europe's upper echelons for the first time in 20 years.