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Greatest League Cup final upsets: As Manchester United play Southampton, here's the finest Wembley shocks in the competition from down the years

Manchester United will start as strong favourites when they take on Southampton in the EFL Cup final at Wembley on Sunday afternoon.

But, if the history of the competition can teach us anything, upsets can and do happen.

There have been a number of surprise results at Wembley down the years and we celebrate some of them here.

Manchester United and Southampton will compete for the EFL Cup at Wembley on Sunday
Manchester United and Southampton will compete for the EFL Cup at Wembley on Sunday

1967 Queens Park Rangers 3-2 West Bromwich Albion

The League Cup, started by Football League chief Alan Hardaker as a distraction from those new-fangled midweek European competitions, got off to an inauspicious start with many of the leading clubs boycotting its early years.