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By Frank Ulom
CARDIFF (CONVERSEER) – Welcome to the LIVE coverage of the quarter-finals match between Cardiff vs Chelsea, in the Carabao Cup, also known as the EFL Cup.
The winner will face either Manchester City or Brentford in the semi-final.
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca made a big Cole Palmer selection call in what has been an injury-hit 2025-26 campaign for the Blues.
Speaking about his squad selection ahead of the Carabao Cup quarter-final, Maresca said: “I’ve already said many times in plenty of press conferences that we have a number of players that need to be protected. The target is to protect them and manage them. Cole is one of the players who deserves to be protected right now.
“In this moment, he’s not available to play two games in three days. So he won’t be available for tomorrow’s game, but should be fine for the weekend. We’re going to make some changes. We’ll see how many, but for sure we have players that in the last 12, 13 days, they’ve played five games. So they need to probably recover energy.”
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Cardiff coach Brian Barry-Murphy on the other hand, will be looking to cause a major upset against the Premier League side and World Champions. Barry-Murphy took over from Maresca as Manchester City Under-23 coach before landing the Cardiff job. He’s been doing a fantastic job for the League One side.
Kick-off time
- Game: Cardiff vs Chelsea
- Date: 16th December 2025
- Kick-off: 9 PM WAT, 10 PM SAT.
- Venue: Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
