EFL Cup Predictions, Fixtures & Fan Picks | CalledItMate
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EFL Cup Predictions, Fixtures & Fan Picks
Make your own live EFL Cup predictions - not tipster picks. Call the score, the next goalscorer and the next team to score, and earn points the second you're right.
Correct scoreLocks at kick-off
Next goalscorerLive, after every goal
Next team to scoreLive, after every goal
£15 and £10 across the top two every week£0 to playNo deposit, no cardPoints land instantly
Pick a EFL Cup fixture and lock in your score before kick-off.
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Next goalscorer and next team to score, with a fresh pick after every goal.
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EFL Cup on CalledItMate
CalledItMate players have made 2,574 predictions on 85 EFL Cup matches. The most-called score is 2-1, picked 109 times, and 7.2% of correct score predictions have landed exactly. Those matches have averaged 4.3 goals a game.
2,574Predictions made
82Players
85Matches covered
7.2%Exact scores called
About EFL Cup
The EFL Cup, known by sponsorship as the Carabao Cup, is England's midweek knockout competition, open to every club in the Premier League and the English Football League. It is a straight knockout from the first round through to a two-legged semi-final and a final at Wembley, which means a League Two side can be ninety minutes from knocking out a Champions League club. Liverpool are the record winners, and the competition has a long habit of throwing up results nobody sensible predicted.
How to Predict EFL Cup Matches
The League Cup has been running since 1960 and has always been the more relaxed of England's two domestic cups, which is precisely what makes it interesting. Managers rotate heavily in the early rounds, academy players get real minutes, and the gap between divisions narrows once a Premier League side fields eight changes away at a full lower-league ground. Extra time has been stripped out of the earlier rounds, so level games go straight to penalties, and ties are decided in one night rather than dragged into replays.
Because form guides mean less than they do in the league. Heavy rotation flattens the quality gap, unfamiliar line-ups produce scrappy low-scoring ties, and shocks are common enough that calling an underdog outcome is a real option rather than a novelty. Goalscorer picks are worth a look too, since a rotated front line often hands a start to a squad player most people have not considered. Points land live on CalledItMate as the game confirms them.
How does the Carabao Cup format work?
It is single-leg knockout football from the first round onwards, with the semi-finals played over two legs and the final at Wembley in the spring. Premier League clubs enter at a later stage than lower-division sides, and clubs in European competition come in later again. Level ties in the early rounds go straight to penalties rather than extra time, so a shoot-out is always on the table when you are predicting a result.
When are Carabao Cup ties played?
Rounds are played midweek, generally Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with kick-offs around 19:45 and 20:00 UK time, and the earlier rounds get spread across both nights. The semi-final legs sit either side of the turn of the year and the final is a Sunday afternoon at Wembley. CalledItMate shows all times in your local zone and opens each fixture for predictions as soon as it falls inside the current prize week.
What is the most predicted EFL Cup score?
On CalledItMate it is 2-1, picked 109 times out of 690 correct score predictions on finished EFL Cup matches. Only 7.2% of those predictions landed exactly, which is why an exact score is worth the most points.
Can I win money predicting EFL Cup matches?
Yes. £15 and £10 across the top two on the weekly leaderboard, and your EFL Cup points count toward it. There is no entry fee, no deposit and nothing staked - it is free to play.
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