🏆 EFL Cup: Townsend Everton's hero as Villa and Norwich hit 6️⃣ | OneFootball

There were 22 matches taking place in the EFL Cup second round on Tuesday night.

Here’s what went down.

Leeds leave it late to sink Crewe

Scorers: Phillips 79′, Harrison 85′, 90′

Leeds had to work hard to overcome League One Crewe and book their spot in the third round.

Captain-for-the-night Kalvin Phillips finally broke the deadlock when he scored from a flicked-on corner 11 minutes from time, before Jack Harrison rubber-stamped the victory for Marcelo Bielsa’s side with two goals late on.

Townsend wins bad-tempered affair for the Toffees

Scorers: Lees 45′; Iwobi 26′, Townsend 80′

Everton eventually overcame Huddersfield despite being reduced to 10-men in the second half.

The Toffees went in front midway through the first half, when Tom Davies picked out Alex Iwobi to slot past the goalkeeper.

Moise Kean also had the ball in the net with the beautiful finish a few minutes later but with no VAR in the John Smith’s Stadium, the goal was ruled out for a very tight offside.

The Terriers then drew level on the stroke of half-time, when Tom Lees headed past Asmir Begović from a corner.

Into the second half and the hosts thought they’d gone 2-0 up when Matty Pearson headed in from another set-piece, but the goal was disallowed for offside against Fraizer Campbell.

And moments later, Everton went down to 10 men when Kean was shown a straight red card following an altercation with Sorba Thomas.

But it was the Premier League side who struck next, with Andros Townsend netting his first goal for the club after André Gomes’s cut-back, sparking jublilant celebrations in the away end.

Archer on target as Villa beat League Two Barrow

Scorers: Archer 10′, 62′, 88′, El-Ghazi (P) 24′, 45+2′, Guilbert 75′

A hat-trick from debutant Cameron Archer helped Aston Villa to a thumping win over League Two Barrow.

The 19-year-old tapped in his first senior goal for the club to open the scoring after just 10 minutes.

Anwar El-Ghazi then made it 2-0 with a cheeky dinked penalty after Jaden Philogene-Bidace had been fouled in the box, before tapping in at the back post to grab his second in first half stoppage time.

Just after the hour mark, Archer increased Villa’s advantage to 4-0 with his second of the game, before Freddie Guilbert made it 5-0 with a superb strike.

And Archer wasn’t done there, as he completed his hat-trick late on to cap off a dream debut.

Quickfire second half double doubles win it for Wolves at Forest

Scorers: Saïss 59′, Podence 60′, Trincão 86′, Gibbs-White 88′

Wolves scored their first competitive goals under Bruno Lage to overcome Nottingham Forest at the City Ground.

It took an hour for the deadlock to be broken in this one and just a minute after had Roman Saïss put the visitors ahead, Daniel Podence made it 2-0 with a cool finish.

Then, late in the game, two more goals in quick succession from Francisco Trincão and Morgan Gibbs-White put the gloss on the victory,

Norwich hit Parker’s Bournemouth for six

Scorers: Tzolis 12′, 66′, McLean 26′, Rupp 33′, Sargent 49′, 75′

Norwich City got their first victory of the season with a 6-0 thrashing of Bournemouth at Carrow Road.

The dominant Canaries went in 3-0 up at half-time courtesy of goals from debutant Christos Tzolis, Kenny McLean and Lukas Rupp.

Into the second half and it was soon 4-0, with Josh Sargent opening his account for the club, before Tzolis bagged his second of the night to make it 5-0.

And Sargent then doubled his tally to make it 6-0 and complete the rout.

An evening of firsts as Brighton win in Wales

Scorers: Moder 9′, Zeqiri 55′

Brighton extended their 100% start to the season with a professional display away at Cardiff.

Jakub Moder gave the Seagulls the lead with his first goal for the club when he ran onto a pass from Enock Mwepu and slotted through the goalkeeper’s legs.

They then went 2-0 up 10 minutes into the second half, with Andi Zeqiri scoring his first Brighton goal after being played in by debutant Moises Caicedo.

Bees come from behind to see off spirited Forest Green

Scorers: Wissa 60′, Mbuemo 75′, Forss 86′; Aitchison 8′

Brentford continued their fine start to the season with a second half comeback to defeat Forest Green.

The League Two visitors took a shock early lead when Nicky Cadden set up Jack Aitchison to lash in.

It took the Bees until deep into the second half to find an answer, but it finally came when Yoane Wissa scored on his full debut just moments after Forest Green had rattled the post at the other end.

And Thomas Frank’s side then completed the turnaround, with Bryan Mbuemo heading home for 2-1 before Marcus Forss’s late clincher.

Vieira still winless as Watford beat Palace

Scorers: Fletcher 86′

Patrick Vieira is still waiting for his first win as Crystal Palace manager after they were beaten in an all-Premier League affair at Vicarage Road.

Ashley Fletcher stabbed home the winner at the back post in the dying minutes to score his first Watford goal from from Cucho Hernandez’s teasing cross.

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Join us for more EFL Cup action tomorrow, when Arsenal join the party.