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Carling Cup semi-final, first leg

Arsenal v Middlesbrough 8pm

Arsenal: Stack, Toure, Cygan, Keown, Clichy, Parlour, Edu, Silva, Bentley, Kanu, Owusu-Abeyie. Subs: Cole, Holloway, Thomas, Skulason, Smith.

Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Mills, Ehiogu, Riggott, Queudrue, Mendieta, Boateng, Doriva, Zenden, Juninho Paulista, Maccarone.

Subs: Job, Ricketts, Downing, Parnaby, Jones.

Referee: S Dunn (Gloucestershire)