carabao cup draw live tv channel start time live stream free and ball numbers confirmed as soccer and hosts updates the carabao cup is rolling on at pace with the quarter final draw now the lead cups habit of hosting round draws in weird and wonderful places continues and it's always a publicity stunt that keeps fans looking out for the latest round of fixtures being announced this time it's on the sky sports saturday morning foodie show soccer m free bets get over two thousand pounds in new customer deals stay up to date with all the latest from the carabao cup draw in our live blog dates for the diary nearly time for the draw but just to remind you when these games will be played the week beginning monday 20th december so most likely on tuesday 21st and wednesday 22nd let's hope for a couple of christmas cracker ties sorry for the awful joke go for it arsenal legend paul merson reckons david moyes and west ham will never have a better opportunity of lifting the carabao cup the hammers have knocked out both manchester city and united and merson believes they have to capitalize on that although some people don't think the league cup means much merson thinks it would look on west ham cv as they haven't won a trophy in decades plus moyes hasn't lifted a trophy for a while either and merson reckons the cup will be huge for him also merson said west ham haven't won a trophy since 1980 he wrote you've got to have a go now it's almost a once in a lifetime opportunity for some of these teams no city in a competition they've dominated for so long it was getting very predictable people say it's not an important competition but come the final everybody wants to be walking out at wembley in it what is david moyes one a community shield this is a massive opportunity for him to finally put a big trophy on his cv you've just knocked out both manchester clubs why wouldn't you go for it now final countdown we're about 25 30 minutes away from the draw how excited are you feeling for those that don't know it will take place on soccer among sky sports which is better than some recent draw locations such as the bulls club they used last time in it to win it brentford boss thomas frank reckons his side can go all the way in the carabao cup they made the quarter finals after seeing off stoke in the last round and thinks brentford call pull off a major coup despite all the bigger prem clubs still in the competition an optimistic frank said i just know one thing we would like to do as well as possible in the league cup we're now in the quarterfinals why not try to win it there are some massive clubs there but we'll do our very best fourth round results cup holders manchester cities were dumped out of the competition by west ham who defeated pep guardiola's side on penalties at the london stadium ending their four-year reign chelsea also skipped into the quarter-finals on penalties against southampton arsenal who are now unbeaten in eight games swept leads aside to secure their place in the last eight sunderland joined the pen fest by edging qpr in a 10-spot-kick shootout prem giants liverpool and tottenham saw off preston and burnley respectively while brentford mate also made it through by seeing off a resilient stoke side while last but not least lester made sure they also left it to the last minute to qualify for the quarter-finals and beat brighton on penalties following an enthralling 90 minutes ball numbers arsenal 1 brentford 2 chelsea 3 leicester 4 liverpool 5 sunderland 6 tottenham 7 west ham 8 it is of course a quarter final so there are 8 teams in the pot for this round time for a cup of tea hello good morning and welcome to sunsport's live blog coverage of the carabao cup draw in keeping with the competition's habit of hosting the draw from weird and wonderful places around the world today's takes place on soccer m john fendley and jimmy bullard are expected to draw the balls for this year's last eight which take place in december premier league big boys arsenal chelsea liverpool and tottenham are expecting to learn their fates today west ham leicester brentford and former prem mainstays sunderland are also in the pot the black cats will be hoping to draw one of the big boys after playing recent seasons in ligue 1. as for tottenham and arsenal it is the chance to win a trophy that has evaded them in recent seasons either way with penalty shootouts and possibly some fringe players in the mix it promises to be a thrilling round of football and who better to get the party started than sky sports funny men friendly and you