Capital One Cup: Third round - in pictures

Manchester United 2-1 Newcastle United Wednesday night saw the return of Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, complete with scar on this right thigh, and the United forward can be pleased with the performance he put in during the 75 minutes he was on the field Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images

United have the upper hand in the first half and create a number of chances, however it's not until two minutes before the break that they convert one. Fletcher passed the ball inside to Anderson, seen here holding off a challenge from Fabricio Coloccini, and from outside the box the Brazilian fired the ball in off the left hand post. It's his first goal in the League Cup Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images

Speaking of firsts, Tom Cleverley gets his first goal for United in the 57th minute when he curls the ball past Rob Elliot. Newcastle get back in the game just three minutes later when Papiss Cissé heads home from close range, but the Magpies aren't able to add a second and tumble out of the competition Photograph: Matthew Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images

West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Liverpool It was the worst possible start for the visitors when, after just three minutes, Gabriel Tamas fired home after Liverpool keeper Brad Jones dropped a cross Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

But West Brom couldn't hold on to their lead and Nuri Sahin scored twice to give Liverpool victory. The win gave Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers a much-needed first domestic victory since taking over at Anfield. The draw for the fourth round sees Rodgers facing his old club Swansea City Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images

Norwich City 1-0 Doncaster Rovers There was a minute's silence at Carrow Road for former Canaries boss John Bond, who has passed away Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

Alexander Tettey marked his Norwich debut with a fine 22-yard effort midway through the first half, which proved enough to see off Dean Saunders' League One side. The victory puts Norwich into the fourth round for the first time since the 1995-96 season, where they will meet Tottenham Hotspur Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

Arsenal 6-1 Coventry City Summer signing Olivier Giroud opened the scoring six minutes before half-time with his first goal for the club Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

It was only after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Andrey Arshavin had made it 3-0 around the hour mark, that the visitors started to look downhearted but still they went forward. This meant that there were gaps which Arsenal exploited with Theo Walcott bagging a brace and Ignasi Miquel also scoring. Despite the scoreline the visitors can take pride in the account they gave of themselves Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

QPR 2-3 Reading QPR's Djibril Cissé reacts after missing a chance though he did smash one home from 20 yards in the 71st minute to give QPR the lead Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

Though that lead only lasted five minutes as Nicky Shorey's wonderful free-kick levelled the scores again, before a subtle back-heel from Pavel Pogrebnyak, celebrating above, nine minutes from time gave the visitors the lead and ultimately victory Photograph: Henry Browne/Action Images

Carlisle United 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur It wasn't Tottenham's strongest starting XI that made the long journey up to Carlisle as Andre Villas-Boas decided to rest a raft of key players ahead of Saturday's fixture with Manchester United Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Goals either side of half time from Jan Vertonghen and Andros Townsend ensured that Spurs were never really in danger of an embarrassing League Cup exit. Their victory was rubber stamped in the dying minutes by Gylfi Sigurdsson's first goal for the club, above Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images