Chelsea v Leeds: EFL Cup prediction, lineups and Xabi Alonso team news
Xabi Alonso faces a Leeds side unbeaten in four as the EFL Cup returns to Stamford Bridge, with Caicedo, Henderson and Emegha all missing for the hosts.
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This page brings together previews for the EFL Cup, England's knockout competition, with a predicted scoreline, a headline tip and five further market picks attached to each selected fixture. Team news and a predicted line-up for both sides sit alongside a note on where to watch, and every prediction carries the byline of the writer who put it together, with the full list on the authors page.
Previews are not published for every round of the EFL Cup, only for selected matches, so this page will not always mirror the full draw. For the shape of the competition itself, the table and fixtures pages carry the detail that moves from round to round.
Each preview is written around 22 hours before kick-off and updated if the team news changes before the match starts. Once the final whistle goes, the same page stays live and simply switches to showing how each of its tips fared, rather than being replaced or archived.
Grading is fixed too: every tip is marked hit or miss, misses stay on the record rather than being quietly dropped, and results are calculated at a flat £10 stake using the odds printed when the preview first went up, not whatever price is available later. A bet builder is treated as a single bet at the combined odds of its three legs. The running numbers behind all of that live on the tip record page, with the full explanation of the process on how we predict.