Story of the night: Hartlepool United 0-1 Crewe Alexandra – visitors progress to Carabao Cup second round despite early red card
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After Billy Sass-Davies’ early red card, Crewe took the lead in the second half through Callum Ainley at Victoria Park.
Pools pushed for an equaliser but the League One visitors were able to hold on to their 1-0 lead and progress through to the second round.
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FULL-TIME: Hartlepool United 0 Crewe Alexandra 1 (Ainley 50)
Key Events
- Pools XI: Mitchell; Sterry, Byrne, Liddle, Odusina, Francis-Angol; Featherstone, Smith, Daly; Molyneux, Burey
- Pools subs: Killip, Lawlor, Ferguson, Ogle, Holohan, Olomola, Cullen
- Pools bookings: none
- Crewe XI: Jaaskelainen; Ramsey, MacDinald, Offord, Long, Porter, Ainley, McFazdean, Dale, Lundstram, Sass-Davies
- Crewe subs: Richards, Adebisi, Mandron, Finney, Murphy, Daniels, Johnson
- Crewe bookings: Artell (manager, 45)
- Crewe sendings off: Sass-Davies (13)
- Referee: Thomas Bramall
- Attendance: 3,149 (140 Crewe)
Welcome back to our Pools live blog!
We’re back again for another Hartlepool United match. This time it’s the Carabao Cup, or the League Cup to those not into all that sponsorship malarkey!
Crewe Alexandra are their first round opponents at Victoria Park this evening.
We will have all the build-up and updates throughout the evening in our live blog. Simply refresh the page and scroll through to stay up to date...
Early team news for Pools
Dave Challinor has confirmed goalkeeper Jono Mitchell will make his debut this evening, along with a few others.
“Jono will start on Tuesday,” Challinor said.
“The likelihood is some of the other lads will start the game to give them the experience of what we do and how we go about it.
“It is a game we want to win. We want to give everyone a fair crack of the whip.
“It has been one similar to last season in that we brought a keeper in on the eve of the season, and again from Ben’s perspective he didn’t have a great deal to do Saturday, so he didn’t do a great deal wrong and it is up to him to make sure that is the case.
“But there will be good competition between two good goalkeepers.”
The Pools team is in!
Pools line-up to face Crewe Alexandra: Mitchell; Sterry, Byrne, Liddle, Odusina, Francis-Angol; Featherstone, Smith, Daly; Molyneux, Burey
Subs: Killip, Lawlor, Ferguson, Ogle, Holohan, Olomola, Cullen
Rochdale given a bye to the second round of the Carabao Cup due to covid cases at Harrogate Town
An EFL statement read: “Rochdale AFC will receive a bye into this season’s Round Two of the Carabao Cup after it was determined opponents Harrogate Town would be unable to fulfil the Round One fixture within the required time period.
“This follows a request to reschedule Harrogate’s next three fixtures after number of positive cases of COVID-19 were identified within the Club, and a number of individuals being unable to play or train due to either a positive test, or the requirement to self-isolate, in line with Government and EFL guidance.
“While Harrogate Town did seek to reschedule the Carabao Cup fixture, the available date proposed would not have provided enough time for logistical arrangements to be made, or tickets to be sold for the Round Two tie and in accordance with Carabao Cup rule 5.1, Harrogate Town will therefore forfeit the tie.”