Brighton v Manchester United: Carabao Cup fourth round – live!

1 min: Pascal Gross gets the ball rolling for Brighton after both teams take a quick knee, and the ball is hoofed forward.

Brighton v Manchester United: It is lashing rain at the Amex Stadium, where a slightly sheepish Ole Gunnar Solskjær has a minion named Karen holding an umbrella over his head as he conducts his pre-match interview. The teams are out and kick-off is just a couple of minutes away.

Brandon Cooper shoots high and wide after Jacob Murphy and Matthew Dolan had scored in the wake of Jonjo Shelvey scoring after Ryan Taylor had missed. Newcastle are through to the next round, but only just.

Newport miss and it’s down to sudden death.

Josh Sheehan scores for Newport – 3-2

Fabian Schar equalises but Newport have the advantage. 2-2

Joelinton misses. Of course he does. 1-1

Newport equalise – Mickey Demetriou slots home. 1-1

Callum Wilson scores for Newcastle – 1-0

Fulltime at Rodney Parade

It’s finished Newport County 1-1 Newcastle United and the tie will be settled by penalties. Brighton v Manchester United to follow …

A goal in Wales: Jonjo Shelvey has just scored a neat individual goal to equalise for Newcastle against Newport County, turning this way and that before curling one into the top corner with three minutes to go.

Meanwhile in Wales: Newport County are entertaining Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup, with the Welsh League Two side leading their top flight visitors by the only goal of the game with 15 minutes to go. Newcastle have been dismal and thoroughly deserve to be behind to Tristan Abrahams’ opener in the fifth minute.

Brighton: Steele, White, Dunk, Burn, Veltman, Molumby, Mac Allister, Gross, Bernardo, Jahanbakhsh, Gyokeres

Subs: Sanchez, Maupay, Trossard, Sanders, Cochrane, Roberts, Jenks

Manchester United: Henderson, Dalot, Bailly, Lindelof, Williams, McTominay, Fred, Mata, Van de Beek, James, Ighalo

Subs: Grant, Fosu-Mensah, Mengi, Lingard, Pogba, Greenwood, Rashford

Change! Change! Change!

Between them, both managers make 19 changes from the teams that contested Saturday’s Premier League ding-dong. Manchester United centre-back Victor Lindelof is punished for his sub-par performance with a recall, while Brighton defenders Lewis Dunk and Ben White will be wondering what they did to deserve successive games on a very wet and windy night on the south coast.

Tonight’s match officials

Referee: Graham Scott
Assistants: Daniel Robathan and Derek Eaton
Fourth official: Simon Hooper

Those incensed by assorted handball decisions awarded over the weekend will be delighted to learn that VAR is not being used at this stage of the competition.

Early team news

Both managers are expected to make plenty of changes from their contest at the weekend, but Graham Potter must plan without the trio of Yves Bissouma, who is suspended, and the long term lame and halt Jose Izquierdo and Florin Andone.

Donny van de Beek started against Luton last week and may well feature from the first whistle, while goalkeeper Dean Henderson is also expected to be between the sticks following his clean sheet against Luton. Fringe players and defenders Phil Jones and Axel Tuanzebe are both sidelined with injury.

Just four days after playing out an entertaining Premier League game fortuitously won by Manchester United with a penalty kick awarded after the final whistle had blown, Brighton have a chance for revenge of sorts as the sides meet again in the Carabao Cup.

The Amex Stadium is the venue once again, for a game that may struggle to match the levels of entertainment served up by both sides on Saturday, but Brighton will have every right to fancy their chances having already seen off Portsmouth and Preston to make it to this stage of the competition.

United beat Luton 3-0 in their only foray into the EFL Cup so far this season. Kick-off in London-by-the-Sea is at 7.45pm (BST), but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.