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Aaron Ramsey, 16-year-old Jack Wilshere, reserve team captain Gavin Hoyte, Kieran Gibbs and first-year scholar Emmanuel Frimpong are all in contention against the Blades.

Alex Song, Johan Djourou and goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski will provide the experience, along with Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner and Mexican Carlos Vela.

Arsene Wenger is ready to show just what the "new generation'' at Arsenal can do in the Carling Cup this season.

"I am very excited because it is a new generation where the youngest boy is Wilshere, then there is (Mark) Randall, Gibbs and so on,'' said Wenger.

"I believe it is very interesting to see a new generation come through, which is a little bit helped by having more experienced players around them, even though they are also young.

"It is always an adventure of a young group together and they can give you a bit of a view of how life at Arsenal could be in three or five years' time.''

My Prediction: 3-1 win for us.

Well, with this words by wenger, we already know that who will play are the kids !!

we will win 3-0 i hope !!

Go gunners !!

I said arsenal would win 3-0, and we are winning 3-0 in the half-time. !!

I prefer lose my way and Arsenal score more and more in the second half !!

Goals by Bendtner (2) and Vela (1)

Go gunners !!
Keep going

Final result: 6-0 to the Arsenal!!

Now, let's concentrate on Premier League!

Very good result, but our opponent wasn´t good !!

Like gooner Genoa said, now we should concentrate in the premier league

Go gunners

Vela scored a hattrick and Bentner grabbed 2. This 2 guys would surely play an important part in our run to the BPL title.

Back to the league cup, I think we have a very good chance even if Wenger decides to play all the youth all the way to the final.

Our Youths must be the best in the world at the moment!

Go GUNNERS!

Youngest ever Gunners hit Blades for six
Arsenal´s Mexican Striker Carlos Vela celebrates after scoring during their Carling Cup 3rd round match against Sheffield United at the Emirates stadium in London. Arsenal won 6-0.

LONDON (AFP) - Arsene Wenger enjoyed a night to savour as another generation of young stars stepped off the Arsenal production line to inflict a 6-0 drubbing on an experienced Sheffield United side on Tuesday.

The youngest starting line-up ever sent out by the club -- with an average age of just 19 -- put the Blades to the sword with a pass-and-move masterclass that resulted in an embarrassingly one-sided League Cup 3rd round tie in which Mexican teenager Carlos Alberto Vela claimed a hat-trick.

Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner, who scored both of Arsenal's first two goals, may be on the fringes of Wenger's first-team squad.

But this was proof that the Gunners' reserves of youthful talent run deep with Alberto Vela's hat-trick sandwiched around a 25-yard strike from 16-year-old Jack Wilshere.

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated his first start for Manchester United since the Champions League final with a goal as Sir Alex Ferguson's side beat ten-man Middlesbrough 3-1 at Old Trafford.

Ronaldo began his quest to match last season's 42-goal tally by heading in a Ryan Giggs corner midway through the first half.

His effort was cancelled out by Adam Johnson's volley early in the second half but Ryan Giggs restored the home side's lead after Middlesbrough had been reduced to ten men following the straight red card issued to Emmanuel Pogatetz for a horrendous challenge on Brazilian teenager Rodrigo Possebon.

Ronaldo's compatriot Nani completed an ultimately comfortable win with United's third at the death.

Liverpool took a leaf out of Arsenal's book by naming a second-string side for their Anfield clash with League One's Crewe.

But they could not match the Gunners in terms of quality as they laboured to a 2-1 win.

Danish centreback Daniel Agger hammered in a 15th-minute freekick to get Liverpool off to a positive start.

But Crewe claimed a deserved equaliser through Michael O'Connor ten minutes later and Liverpool struggled to break down the visitors until Brazilian Leiva Lucas restored the lead with a close-range header.

Championship side Burnley pulled off the biggest upset of the night when they knocked out the Premier League's Fulham, courtesy of an 88th-minute strike from 19-year-old local boy Jay Rodriguez.

Watford also claimed a Premier League scalp with an own goal by Hadyn Mullins condemning West Ham to their first defeat under new manager Gianfranco Zola.

Elsewhere, Swansea emerged victorious from their south Wales derby clash with Cardiff, courtesy of Jordi Gomez's goal.

Sunderland needed two late goals from Anthony Stokes to force their clash with Northampton into extra-time before finally coming through by winning the penalty shoot-out 4-3.

Premiership newcomers Stoke were also forced into extra-time after twice being pegged back by Reading but they also survived penalties, winning the shoot-out 4-3.

WOW!