Sunderland began life after Paolo Di Caniowith 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 ofcup 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 Marco 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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