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The 2012–13 Football League Cup – known as the Capital One Cup for sponsorship reasons – fourth round tie pitted Premier League sides Reading and Arsenal to contest for a quarter-final spot. The match ended in a 7–5 win for Arsenal, in the highest-scoring match in League Cup history. Reading had taken a 4–0 lead in the first half, but Theo Walcott reduced the deficit in first-half stoppage time. This was followed by second-half goals from Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Walcott as the match ended 4-4 after regulation time. In extra-time, Arsenal took the lead through Marouane Chamakh, before Pavel Pogrebnyak made it 5–5 with five minutes remaining; however late goals from Walcott (to complete his hat-trick) and Chamakh handed Arsenal victory.The match is regarded as one of the most entertaining of recent history. It is the joint highest-scoring match in the history of Arsenal; it is also the joint-highest scoring match in League Cup history, though at the time it was the outright record.
The match was the first time in Arsenal's history that they had come back from three or more goals down to win a match, and the first time they had netted seven in an away tie since the 7–0 win at Standard Liège in the 1993-94 European Cup Winners' Cup.
Arsenal lined up in a 4-5-1/4-3-2-1 formation, with Theo Walcott and Andrey Arshavin shifting between winging midfield and attack to support lone striker Marouane Chamakh. Reading meanwhile set up with six changes from their last game; Arsenal made eleven.

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