Sunderland began life after Paolo Di Canio with a comfortable
Capital One Cup victory over Peterborough as Tottenham thrashed Aston Villa and
Manchester City romped to a 5-0 victory against Wigan.
There were also third round victories for Chelsea,
Southampton, West Ham, Fulham, Hull City, Norwich Leicester and Burnley on a
busy night of cup football.
Sunderland caretaker boss Kevin Ball oversaw a 2-0
victory at home to Peterborough thanks to goals from Emanuele Giaccherini and
Valentin Roberge, with the recalled Lee Cattermole excellent in midfield.
Chelsea enjoyed a routine 2-0 success at Swindon as Jose
Mourinho turned to a number of the fringe players in his star-studded squad,
with Juan Mata setting up Fernando Torres before substitute Ramires, on for the
injured Marko van Ginkel, struck again before the interval.
Manchester City destroyed Wigan 5-0 in a repeat of last
season's FA Cup final with Edin Dzeko opening the scoring before the floodgates
opened with Stevan Jovetic bagging a second-half brace and Yaya Toure and Jesus
Navas also on target.
Tottenham continued their impressive start to the season
with a 4-0 romp away to Aston Villa as Jermain Defoe scored twice, with
Paulinho finding the net and Nacer Chadli opening his account for the north
London side.
Fulham came from behind to inflict Everton's first defeat
of the season under new manager Roberto Martinez as Dimitar Berbatov and Darren
Bent secured a 2-1 success following Steven Naismith's opener.
Gary Hooper rescued Norwich from a Capital One Cup exit
at the hands of Watford as his extra-time winner capped a remarkable comeback.
Javier Acuna and Marco Faraoni looked to have the Hornets on course for round
four before substitute Josh Murphy reduced the deadlock with 13 minutes to go
and Hooper levelled with almost the final kick of the initial 90 minutes.
Southampton made 11 changes to their team from the
victory at Liverpool but still had enough to see off League One outfit Bristol
City with Gaston Ramirez on target in the 15th minute and Jos Hooiveld
completing the scoring seven minutes from time.
Ricardo Vaz Te hit a dramatic late winner for West Ham as
they edged out Cardiff in a five-goal thriller at Upton Park after Craig Noone
and Peter Odemwingie had cancelled out early efforts from Ravel Morrison and
Matt Jarvis for the hosts.
Hull City overcame Championship side Huddersfield at the
KC Stadium with Nick Proschwitz scoring the only goal of the game in the 59th
minute.
Leicester staged a late revival to dump out midlands
rivals Derby at the King Power Stadium as Danny Drinkwater and Anthony
Knockaert struck in the final 12 minutes after Chris Martin had put the Rams in
front.
Danny Ings' brace saw Burnley come from behind to defeat
Nottingham Forest at Turf Moor with Matt Derbyshire having given the visitors
the lead.
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