Aston Villa will host Crystal Palace in Round four of the Carabao Cup following a 2-1 win over Wycombe Wanderers on Tuesday night.
The game will take place in the week commencing Monday, 28th October at Villa Park.
Palace beat London rivals QPR 2-1 in the third round and beat Norwich City 4-0 in Round 2.
Report: Wycombe Wanderers 1-2 Aston Villa
Unai Emery made 10 changes from the side that beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 at the weekend. Only Amadou Onana remained in the side with youth players like Lamare Bogarde, Sil Swinkles and Kaden Young all-handed starts.
Jhon Durán should have given the visitors the lead within the first couple of minutes when Leon Bailey played the striker through but could only put the ball wide of the post. This chance set the tone for what was a poor game in truth. The Columbian had four of Villa’s six chances in the first half but they never really looked like they would score.
Wycombe more than matched Premier League Villa and looked a threat on the counter-attack as the power and pace of Beryly Lubala put Villa’s youthful backline to the test.
Emery described Villa’s first half against Wolves as “sh*t”. I dread what he thought of that first half but Villa did settle the nerves 10 minutes after the restart.
Young raced down the left before crossing the ball that hit Joe Lowe before falling to Emi Buendia to send a looping header into the far corner. It was the first goal from the Argentine since May 2023, follow...