Carabao Cup 5th Round Draw

[CatMan]

It's all irrelevant. One teams wins it, we'll beat Leicester and then any team remaining over 2 legs and then whichever team is left at Wembley.

 

[cleavers]

Always scoffed at the agenda fixed draw stuff, but this time , a pre recorded draw keeping the big teams apart, not so sure.

That was 100 minutes late in being published, a truly remarkable draw, the team the sponsors want to win it get the easiest tie, Chelsea and Arsenal both at home and avoid each other, City have a difficult away tie, nothing fixed there then.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Well that confirms suspicions; what a farce. The competition as zero credibility and we should not dignify it by taking it seriously now.

 

[MCFC1993]

Funny thing is on page 10 I called this exact draw bar I thought United would be at home, it's a farce.

 

[bluemc1]

Apparently we won it in 2016 under Pep
Must’ve missed that one

 

[zandvoort blue]

Apparently they`re re-running the draw again, but only from balls 7 and 8 onwards. That is until the Rags get the home draw against Bristol that they were promised.

 

[davymcfc]

Well that wasn’t rigged in any way....

 

[Newman Noggs]

Probably the most attritional tie we could get. Unsurprisingly.

 

[bluemurray]

Fixed. Play the kids, beat Leicester anyway, they will be utterly underwhelming under Puel or whatever his face is called and move on. All very shameful though.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It was a 42% chance we'd be away to a PL team so if anyone is surprised it's their own fault.

I can vouch for the probabilities. However, that is one element of the whole. The probability of United getting Bristol City and all of the top four clubs avoiding each other is very low.

It could have just been the legitimate outcome but, given many predicted the outcome based on an expectation of draw rigging, it is rather suspect. Not to mention you can nearly always win money predicting United get one of the lowest seeded teams in a competition draw.