What next for Stansfield?

Birmingham fans know all about Jay Stansfield's scoring ability. So too do Fulham supporters after the 21-year-old helped his Premier League club avoid a Carabao Cup upset against his old team.

Stansfield spent 2023-24 on loan at Birmingham, his 13 league and cup goals one of the few positives as the club were relegated from the Championship.

On Tuesday, his composed finish to put Fulham 2-0 up against Birmingham - after Raul Jimenez opened the scoring from the penalty spot - was one of the highlights of the tie and showed Stansfield could yet be a useful weapon for Fulham this season.

Stansfield refused to celebrate his goal out of respect to the club where he spent last season.

Boss Marco Silva, who has placed the EFL Cup among his top priorities again after steering his side to last season's semi-finals, chose to change his entire team for this game.

The way they got the job done shows there is plenty of depth to his squad.

Stansfield will be eager for more game-time but will it be with Fulham or will he end up having to go out on loan again?