Capital One Cup 2013-2014: round two - in pictures
Liverpool v Notts County There's plenty of hopeful Magpies fans in AnfieldPhotograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action ImagesThough some of those hopes are dashed in the fourth minutes when Raheem Sterling picks the ball up 40 yards from goal, darts inside, walks past County defender Manny Smith with ease and rifles in a low shot from the edge of the box. More hope evaporates just before the half hour mark when Daniel Sturridge doubles the Reds' leadPhotograph: Jon Super/APRaheem Sterling is outnumberedPhotograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Notts County get back in the game when Yoann Arquin beats his marker to a ball nodded across the box and thumps into the roof of the net. The visitors are back on equal terms with six minutes to go when Arquin cuts the ball back to Adam Coombes who slams the ball, first time. The game goes into extra time and those County fans can start to hope againPhotograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesNotts County think they've got a chance to win it when they appeal for a penalty during extra time. Alas their appeals are waved away and Liverpool break on a counter-attack, Daniel Sturridge wriggles away from his marker on the left-hand side of the penalty area to fire in a low shot which evades goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski and creeps inPhotograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action ImagesNow that definitely should be it. As after running powerfully from midfield, Jordan Henderson nutmegged the last man and side-footed into the corner, from sixteen yards. Final score: Liverpool 4-2 Notts CountyPhotograph: Jon Super/APSunderland v MK Dons The Black Cats boss Paolo Di Canio will be looking for a good performance and result not only for his evolving side will take a significant step forward but also to put to one side all the hoo-hah surrounding friday night's fracasPhotograph: Lee Smith/Action ImagesIt looks like the post match talk might not be of the friday night fracas nor an improving Sunderland side but how the Black Cats were being dumped out of the cup by the League 1 side after MK Dons' Patrick Bamford slams the ball home from 20 yards. Things go from bad to word for Di Canio's team when Izale McLeod dinks the ball homePhotograph: Owen Humphreys/PAHowever, far from being dead and buried, Sunderland get themselves back in the game in the dying minutes when Connor Wickham, above, bags a brace and then Adam Johnson slams the ball home deep in injury time. Final score: Sunderland 4-2 MK DonsPhotograph: Lee Smith/Action ImagesWest Ham United v Cheltenham Town The Hammers' manager Sam Allardyce doesn't seem too impressed with his team's performancePhotograph: Stephen Pond/PAThe rollickings from the touchline seems to have worked as Ricardo Vaz Te whips in a free-kick to give the home side the lead just before half-time Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty ImagesRavel Morrison of West Ham United shoots past goalkeeper Scott Brown of Cheltenham Town to score their second goal. Matt Richards pulled one back for the visitors from the penalty spot just before the hour mark but the Premier League side held out. Final score: West Ham 2-1 Cheltenham TownPhotograph: Jan Kruger/Getty ImagesBristol City v Crystal Palace Some pre-match reading for some Palace fans Photograph: Steven Paston/Action ImagesThose fans won't like what they saw - Jay Emmanuel-Thomas put the home side ahead just before the hour markPhotograph: Michael Steele/Getty ImagesScott Wagstaff of Bristol City fires his side's second goal past Jerome Binnom-Williams. Owen Garvan pulled one back for Palace during injury time but it's too little too late. Final score: Bristol City 2-1 Crystal PalacePhotograph: Michael Steele/Getty ImagesQueens Park Rangers v Swindon Town Alex Pritchard (hidden) rounded off a Swindon victory during injury time when he added to Niles Ranger's opener. Final score: QPR 2-0 Swindon TownPhotograph: Jed Leicester/Action ImagesLeyton Orient v Hull City It wasn't until the second period of extra time that substitute Robbie Brady's fired in Liam Rosenior's cross to put Hull through to the next round. Final score: Leyton Orient 0-1 Hull CityPhotograph: Anthony Devlin/PABurton Albion v Fulham After Adel Taarabt put the Premier League side ahead, Burton Albion didn't buckle and Jack Dyer notched with five minute to go. Then during injury time, they took the lead when Michael Symes headed them ahead before Hugo Rodallega saved Martin Jol's blushes and took the game into penatliesPhotograph: Paul Thomas/Getty ImagesWhere John Arne Riise sent the keeper the wrong way to score the winning penalty in the shootout. Final score: Burton Albion 5-4 Fulham (after penalties)Photograph: Alex Morton/Action ImagesNorwich City v Bury Robert Snodgrass of Norwich City takes a free kick but he wasn't successful with the effortPhotograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty ImagesAnthony Pilkington was one of the five Norwich scorers who helped the Canaries overcome a spirited effort by Bury. Final score: Norwich City 6-3 BuryPhotograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty ImagesWest Bromwich Albion v Newport County A first half hat-trick by Saido Berahino, scoring his first above, was enough to see off the Welsh side. Final score: West Brom 3-0 NewportPhotograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action ImagesTranmere Rovers v Bolton Wanderers Cole Stockton put the home side up just before the halftime whistle went but the lead was cancelled out just after the hour mark by Jermaine Beckford's effort. An further half hour of extra time wasn't enough to separate the sides so it went to penalties where Tranmere Rovers' Owain Fon Williams was on form to ensure that his team came out on top. Final score: Tranmere Rover 4-2 Bolton (on penalties)Photograph: Craig Brough/Action ImagesBarnsley v Southampton A game which never seemed to be in doubt especially after Steven Davis opened the scoring in the twenty sixth minute. The visitors then stepped it up a gear including Emmanuel Mayuka who got on the scoresheet just after the hour mark. Final score: Barnsley 1 -5 SouthamptonPhotograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images
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