Southampton have found out who they’ll face in the third-round of the EFL Cup.
The Saints will travel up to Goodison Park to play Everton on Tuesday the 17th September for 7:45pm kick-off.
Russell Martins men previously beat Cardiff City in an empathic 5-3 victory over in Wales in the previous round of the competition.
The South Coast team have never lifted the League Cup before but have appeared in the final on two occasions.
In 1979 against Brian Clough’s legendary Nottingham Forest, who would go onto claim the first of two successive European Cups that year, Southampton were narrowly trodden on 3-2 at Wembley.
Nearly four decades later tears broke out again at the same venue. The Reds were beaten by the same score-line in 2017 by Manchester United cruelly, after Zlatan Ibrahimovic scurried in the winning goal with only three minutes to spare of the final whistle.
