Under Sir Alex Ferguson, United have only ever won the League Cup once, and that was in 1992, and this is possibly the best chance they could ever have of winning it again, the only real problems they have for this game is who to pick in central midfield. After Alan Smiths horrific injury last weekend, and with Scholes out for the season they will probably push Rio Ferdinand into the middle. Rio has looked relatively impressive here, although sometimes he has not been amazingly convincing.

Wigan don’t appear to have any injury concerns for the match, although they haven’t won in 6 games, although I don’t really think this will affect how they perform tomorrow.

I think that Wigan will be really up for this match, and could cause United problems, however if both Rooney and Van Nistelrooy play (which they are likely to), then I don’t really see Wigan having much of a chance. My Prediction: 3-1 Manchester United

I did mention that Wigan are an unpredictable side at times, and when they went 1-0 down to Henry’s header, I thought they were on their way out. However they battled well and brought the game to extra time, where anything can (and usually does) happen. I didn’t even think that the Carling Cup had an away goals rule, and by the looks of it, neither did Dave Whelan or Jason Roberts.

Current Overall Prediction percentage: 42% (5/12 correct)

Arsenal vs Wigan (Aggregate 0-1) Tuesday Night
After losing to Everton on Saturday, and already trailing to Wigan, I’m sure that Arsene Wenger will pick a relatively strong team (this could be Arsenal’s only chance of silverware, they are certainly out of contention for the league). I find it virtually impossible to predict how Paul Jewell’s Wigan are going to perform, they are having an amazing season overall, but sometimes they can be awful.
My Prediction: Arsenal to go through, I don’t see Wigan’s solitary goal lead being enough, especially at Highbury.

Manchester United vs Blackburn (Aggregate 1-1) Wednesday Night
I think that this is the more interesting of the weeks ties, with both teams having come away with close victories in the weekends fixtures. Blackburn have already won at Old Trafford this season, and will be hoping to repeat that success again, and with Morten Gamst Pedersen having a superb season, they have every chance to do so. After beating liverpool at the death on saturday, Sir Alex will be hoping for the momentum to continue here, however he will want his strikers, especially van Nistelrooy to perform better than against Liverpool.
My Prediction: This game could go either way, if United play a strong team though, I can see them comfortably winning, but if they only play a scratch team then Blackburn could capitalise. If I have to choose though, it would be United.

So from these predictions I forsee a United vs Arsenal final, if so, let’s hope it isn’t as boring as when they met last May for the FA Cup final.