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A quarter of an hour gone in the four 6pm kick-offs and no sign of a goal yet, though Matt Smith has gone close for Millwall against Cheltenham. 

Parker using cup to bed in new players

Fulham will be looking to bounce back from their Premier League defeat to Arsenal when they take on Ipswich tomorrow. 

Parker largely relied upon the players who earned promotion against the Gunners on Saturday, but says he will rotate for the meeting with the Tractor Boys.

"It's a competition that we respect," Parker said. "A good cup run, we know that that can build confidence and momentum.

"And also, at the same time it helps in terms of getting players minutes and getting players up to speed, those who haven't been with us too long or haven't played a lot of football or trained a lot due to the circumstances of having such a short pre-season.

"But as much as we want to get minutes into the boys to get them up to speed, we also want to go and win the game.

"We want to stay in the competition and hopefully be successful in it."

KICK-OFF!

We are underway at:

• Gillingham vs Coventry

• Middlesbrough vs Barnsley

• Millwall vs Cheltenham

• Reading vs Luton

Right then, we're less than ten minutes away from kick-off in the first of this evenings games.

Here's the scene at The Den, where Millwall are taking on Cheltenham...

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There are no Premier League teams in action in the early kick-offs this evening, but there's still interest for some of the big guns because the draw for the third round has already been made. 

Reading and Luton get underway at 6pm knowing the winner will host Manchester United in the next round, while the winners of the clash between Middlesbrough and Barnsley will play Chelsea. 

Millwall vs Cheltenham team news (6pm KO)

Millwall: Bialkowski, Romeo, Hutchinson, Cooper, Murray Wallace, Ferguson, Leonard, Woods, Mahoney, Smith, Bradshaw.

Subs: Jed Wallace, Thompson, Malone, Bennett, Bodvarsson, Skalak, Wright. 

Cheltenham: Griffiths, Raglan, Tozer, Boyle, Thomas, Sercombe, Blair, Bonds, Hussey, May, Reid.

Subs: Clements, Williams, Addai, Freestone, Azaz, Lloyd, Harris. 

West Ham vs Charlton

West Ham have much bigger things to worry about at the moment than the Carabao Cup, but it's for that exact reason that they can ill-afford defeat against League One London rivals Charlton tonight. 

A mini-preseason plagued by off-field turmoil continued onto the pitch at the weekend as they were beaten at home by Newcastle on the opening day of the Premier League campaign. 

Their next six league games are all against teams that finished in the top eight last season. Gulp. 

Of course, we won't see the holders in action tonight, with Manchester City among the big-guns who aren't in action until the next round.

We do, however, have the runners-up in Aston Villa, who were beaten 2-1 at Wembley in February. They go to Burton in a 7:45pm kick-off. 

And of course they do so buoyed by the news from earlier on today that captain Jack Grealish has signed a new long-term contract at the club, ending speculation over his future. 

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Tuesday's fixtures

Here's how things look tonight...

1800 | Gillingham vs Coventry

1800 | Middlesbrough vs Barnsley

1800 | Millwall vs Cheltenham

1800 | Reading vs Luton

1830 | Derby vs Preston

1900 | Bradford vs Lincoln

1900 | Fleetwood vs Port Vale

1900 | Newport vs Cambridge United

1900 | Oxford vs Watford

1930 | Newcastle vs Blackburn

1930 | West Ham vs Charlton

1945 | Bournemouth vs Crystal Palace

1945 | Burton vs Aston Villa

1945 | Leyton Orient vs Plymouth

1945 | Morecambe vs Oldham

1945 | Rochdale vs Sheffield Wednesday

Game Day

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