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Manchester United fans will have the bragging rights in the city after a wonderful strike from Mata saw Manchester City out of the EFL Cup. United went into Wednesday's match with no time to lick their wounds following a 4-0 defeat to Chelsea. However it was Guardiola, who has now gone on his worst ever run of six games without a win who went home as the loser in the tense derby. On the other hand, West Ham overpowered Chelsea to claim a spot in the EFL Cup quarterfinals. Goals from Kouyaté and Fernande's were enough to see away the blues as Bilic's men keep their hopes of a silverware alive.

A Nigerian Facebook user who was angry over the inconsistency of English teams has took to the social media to express his views. See what he wrote below: Soccer is a type of game that will give you a title in a season and rip it off you, replacing it with another title in another season- from the 'special one' to the 'terrible one'! Of all the hypotheses of Arsene Wenger, there are two that I think are valid(my thinking though): the first is that no team is invincible and the second is that heavy spending doesn't win league titles. Leicester city didn't have to go bankrupt before winning EPL last season. Though Wenger would have been from the Southeast if he were a Nigerian but can you imagine that near midget, perhaps bought with one MTN recharge card, dribbling two defenders before humiliating a goalkeeper all Man U fans thought had hands all over his body because of the small show he put up against Liverpool some days back. Anyway, shoes get size for ...