The League Cup has long been seen as an opportunity for clubs to blood their most promising youngsters, and this week was no different.
We may be reaching the sharp end of the competition, but almost every Premier League club involved used the quarter-finals as a chance to give those starlets on the fringes of their first team a run-out, with only Manchester United completely eschewing youth.
But did the kids live up to expectations? Sportsmail looks at all the youngsters who played this week, and how they got on...