Carling Cup third round - in pictures

It's raining in Manchester before City's match with Birmingham, but Roberto Mancini seems amused. Has the Italian a reason to smile that we don't yet know about? Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images

Look who it is! That's Owen Hargreaves ... on a pitch ... playing football ... Wonders will never cease. He managed only five appearances for Manchester United in the previous three seasons - the last of which lasted all of five minutes before ending in yet another injury - but when Mancini offered him a pay-as-you-play deal at Eastlands he snapped it up. The question now is, how long will he last? Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Heck, not only is Hargreaves playing, he's also scoring. In the 17th minute he cracks one in from outside of the penalty box to give City the lead against Birmingham Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

His new team-mates are quick to congratulate him - one more and he'll have equalled his tally for United Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Another forgotten face in the City line-up tonight is Carlos Tevez. It's only his second start of the season Photograph: Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images

Tevez can't get his name on the scoresheet, but Mario Balotelli can. Balotelli converts Pablo Zabaleta's cross seven minutes before half time and that's how the scores remain Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Down at the Amex Stadium in Brighton, Steven Gerrard is on the bench for Liverpool after six months out with groin injuries. He looks chipper enough Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

Craig Bellamy is the scourge of the Brighton defence early on Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images

In the seventh minute he co-ordinates a move with team-mate Luis Suárez and collects a measured pass before steering a shot into the far corner. 1-0 to Liverpool Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images

With Brighton beginning to dominate the second half, Gerrard replaces Suárez with 15 minutes to go Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

Dirk Kuyt finishes off a sweeping move involving Maxi and Bellamy to double Liverpool's advantage nine minutes from time ... his effort trickled in off the post, much like Bellamy's opener had Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images

Ashley Barnes tucks away a penalty with a minute remaining after Jamie Carragher fouled Vicente, but Liverpool hold on to win 2-1 Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images

Chelsea and Fulham are engaged in a joyless encounter at Stamford Bridge. Here, Alex of Chelsea vies with Orlando Sa of Fulham Photograph: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images

Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge has a goal disallowed and Fulham's Pajtim Kasami misses a penalty after a professional foul on Kerim Frei by Alex Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

André Villas-Boas, the Chelsea manager, looks pretty exasperated. Yet despite Alex being sent off, his side hold firm and the game goes all the way to a penalty shoot-out ... Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Chelsea win the shoot-out 4-3 in controversial circumstances when Bryan Ruiz's spot-kick hits the bar and bounces down on to the line, but not over it, according to the officials Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images

Phil Neville scored a winner in extra-time as Everton beat West Brom 2-1 Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Southampton beat Preston 2-1 with goals from Jos Hooiveld and Adam Lallana in a keenly contested affair. Here, Lallana stoops to score the winner in the second half Photograph: Adam Holt/Action Images

Cardiff and Leicester could not be separated over the course of 120 minutes. The match ended 2-2 after Rudy Gestede, left, scored a late equaliser for Cardiff and went to penalties ...
Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Cardiff eventually won the shoot-out 7-6 when Paul Quinn scored after Gelson Fernandes had missed Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images