Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle believes his side needs to be watchful of Carling Cup opponents Southampton tonight.
Wanderers will be buoyed by their success against West Ham at the weekend but Coyle reckons there is no room for complacency against a side he believes will be back in the Championship next season.
"It is probably the toughest tie we could have got," said Coyle. "Southampton are a big club and while I know they are in League One now, I truly believe by the end of the season, they won't be."
Coyle is hoping he can repeat the success he achieved in the competition with former club Burnley who he took to the semi-finals two years ago.
"I have always loved cup competitions and I have always believed they can work alongside a league programme," said Coyle, who is set to give a debut to Hungary-born 21-year-old keeper Alex Bogdan.
"You want to win every competition you enter.
"We showed that at Burnley. The Carling Cup run we had there galvanised us and took us on collectively.
"But over the course of that season, we played 61 games, so you do have to juggle things around a little bit."
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