Fleetwood Town vs Sheffield United - prediction, team news, lineups

Fourth-tier Fleetwood Town volition invited second-tier Sheffield United to Highbury Stadium connected Wednesday for an EFL Cup necktie with a fourth-round spot connected the line.

The hosts are unbeaten successful each competitions this season, portion their visitors suffered their 2nd decision of the run connected Sunday, with some having won 2 matches to scope this stage.

Match preview

Fleetwood Town instrumentality to EFL Cup enactment connected Wednesday aiming to proceed an unbeaten commencement to their 2026-27 play and advancement to the 4th circular for the archetypal clip successful their history.

The Cod Army are already the past League Two squad lasting successful the 3rd circular this term, having started their bid with location wins successful the archetypal and 2nd rounds, firstly beating Chesterfield 1-0 successful their season-opener.

Shrewsbury Town past visited Highbury Stadium, and Matt Lawlor's broadside progressed successful style, dishing retired a 4-0 beating with Ched Evans scoring a brace aft Will Boyle's aboriginal ain extremity and Will Davies adding a 4th successful the dying minutes.

Those victories person travel alongside an unbeaten commencement to their 2nd play backmost successful League Two, with the Cod Army sat seventh connected 10 points from six games, albeit having drawn 4 of their past matches, astir precocious beating Shrewsbury astatine location again and playing retired a 1-1 gully distant astatine Newport County astatine the play acknowledgment to Aaron Loupalo-Bi's equaliser.

Fleetwood Town present caput into their toughest trial of the play truthful acold aiming for different awesome effect with the accidental to advancement to the circular of 16 if they are capable to instrumentality a large scalp astatine Highbury.

Their visitors, meanwhile, marque the travel to the eastbound seashore aiming to bounce backmost from a midweek league setback.

Sheffield United besides kicked disconnected their 2026-27 play successful the EFL Cup archetypal circular and prevailed distant astatine third-tier Mansfield Town, earlier visiting Blackburn Rovers successful the erstwhile circular and winning 2-1 acknowledgment to Tom Cannon's opener and Romelle Donovan's decisive extremity 9 minutes from time.

In an inconsistent to their 3rd consecutive Championship season, the Blades headed to Ewood Park to instrumentality connected Blackburn again past week and managed a 2nd league triumph of the season, coming from down to triumph 2-1 with Cannon again connected the scoresheet alongside Sydie Peck.

Chris Wilder's broadside failed to physique connected that effect connected Sunday, though, hosting Wolves and falling to a 2nd decision of the league campaign, having looked acceptable to stock the points successful a stalemate, arsenic Raul Jimenez broke the deadlock and snatched the triumph for their visitors successful the 90th minute, leaving the Blades 14th connected 9 points from 7 outings.

They present crook their absorption backmost to the EFL Cup with the anticipation of returning to winning ways and making their prime number to publication a spot successful the competition's past 16.

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Team News

Fleetwood Town volition apt stay without Kane Thompson-Sommers and Andy Cannon, some of whom person been sidelined with injuries successful caller weeks.

Former Sheffield United antheral Ched Evans whitethorn again commencement alongside Ronan Coughlan up front, having netted 4 goals truthful acold this play including 3 successful 2 EFL Cup matches.

Harrison Neal has been a mainstay astatine the basal of the midfield successful the aboriginal stages of 2026-27 and should proceed successful beforehand of the backmost 3 of Shaun Rooney, Rhys Bennett and Finley Potter.

Sheffield United are incapable to telephone connected Harrison Burrows, Femi Seriki, Tahith Chong and Ryan One owed to ongoing injuries.

Wilder whitethorn marque immoderate rotations to his broadside successful the midst of a engaged Championship docket betwixt Sunday's Wolves crippled and an upcoming travel to Stoke City connected Saturday, and Matt Dogerty and Rhys Norrington-Davies are among those apt to travel successful and let rests successful the full-back areas for Hamza Choudhury and Sam McCallum.

Jairo Riedewald and Joe Rothwell whitethorn beryllium successful enactment to commencement successful midfield, aft Sydie Peck, Kalvin Phillips and Oliver Arblaster featured connected Sunday, portion Tom Cannon and Romelle Donovan are some apt to instrumentality to the attack.

Fleetwood Town imaginable starting lineup:

Lynch; Rooney, Bennett, Potter; Cirino, Neal, Murphy, Andrew; Helm; Coughlan, Evans

Sheffield United imaginable starting lineup:

Cooper; Doherty, McGuinness, Kitching, Norrington-Davies; Arblaster, Riedewald, Rothwell; Donovan, Bamford, Cannon

We say: Fleetwood Town 1-2 Sheffield United

Given their unbeaten commencement and the visitors' struggles for consistency and demanding Championship schedule, Fleetwood Town surely person the accidental to origin Sheffield United problems astatine Highbury Stadium and we expect a pugnacious trial for the Blades but yet spot them getting implicit the enactment and into the circular of 16.

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