![A night to forget: Wes Thomas of Oxford United missed two penalties in the shootout.](/web/20161109000209im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/l/4/4/r/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gsl3bp.png/1478648092032.jpg)
Chelsea and Oxford in record-breaking shootout
The EFL Trophy has been so messed about by the Football League's preposterous decision to invite 16 Premier League and Championship teams to field academy sides in the group stages, it seems inevitable that something odd would happen in this farcical year for the competition.