Soccer

City and Spurs ease to wins

Gary Hooper scores extra-time winner for Norwich City against Watford at Vicarage Road

Jan Vertonghen of Tottenham Hotspur hangs on to the shorts of Nicklas Helenius of Aston Villa during their Capital One Cup third round match at Villa Park. Photograph: Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Jan Vertonghen of Tottenham Hotspur hangs on to the shorts of Nicklas Helenius of Aston Villa during their Capital One Cup third round match at Villa Park. Photograph: Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Tue Sept 24 2013 - 23:25

Tottenham and Manchester City amassed nine goals between them as they powered into the fourth round of the Capital One Cup with easy victories.

Spurs thumped Premier League rivals Aston Villa 4-0 in the midlands with Jermain Defoe scoring twice and Paulinho and Nacer Chadli also hitting the target.

City continued where they left off in Sunday's 4-1 drubbing of Manchester United by putting Wigan to the sword. Stevan Jovetic was on target twice, scoring his first goals for the club, while Edin Dzeko, Yaya Toure and Jesus Navas also weighed in with goals in the 5-0 rout at the Etihad Stadium.

Everton’s Darron Gibson battles for possession with Fulham’s Scott Parker (left) at Craven Cottage. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA Wire
Everton’s Darron Gibson battles for possession with Fulham’s Scott Parker (left) at Craven Cottage. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA Wire
Hull City and Ireland midfielder David Meyler ‘hands off’ Oliver Norwood of Huddersfield Town during their Capital One Cup third round match at the KC Stadium. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images
Hull City and Ireland midfielder David Meyler ‘hands off’ Oliver Norwood of Huddersfield Town during their Capital One Cup third round match at the KC Stadium. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Fulham fought back from 1-0 down to overcome Everton 2-1 with Darren Bent hitting a 69th-minute winner after Dimitar Berbatov had cancelled out Steven Naismith's opener.

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Sunderland made an emphatic start to life without sacked manager Paolo Di Canio by dispatching Peterborough 2-0 with strikes from Emanuele Giaccherini and Valentin Roberge.

Cardiff staged their own fightback after trailing 2-0 to West Ham, only for Sam Allardyce's side to finish 3-2 winners through a late header by Ricardo Vaz Te. Ravel Morrison and Matthew Jarvis fired the Hammers ahead and Cardiff responded through Craig Noone and Peter Odemwingie, only to have their hearts broken by Vaz Te.

Fernando Torres and Ramires scored in six first-half minutes as Chelsea swatted aside Swindon 2-0 at the County Ground.

Danny Ings nodded in Burnley's winner in a 2-1 home victory over Nottingham Forest having already hauled his side back into contention with the equaliser of Matt Derbyshire's opener.

There were few fireworks at the KC Stadium where Hull's Nick Proschwitz produced the only goal against Huddersfield and he should have had a second.

Derby slumped to their first away defeat of the season, losing 2-1 to Leicester despite taking the lead through Chris Martin. Anthony Knockaert and Danny Drinkwater were on target to ensure Leicester progressed into the last 16.

Gaston Ramirez and Jos Hooiveld ensured Southampton progressed in a 2-0 victory over Bristol City, but Saints were made to work for their place in the next round.

Gary Hooper was on target six minutes from the end of extra time as Norwich overcame Watford 3-2 at Vicarage Road. Hooper hit the injury-time equaliser and Josh Murphy also scored as Norwich fought back from a 2-0 deficit built on strikes by Marco Faraoni and Javier Acuna.