in a tense penalty shoot-out to reach
the English League Cup quarter-finals,
while Manchester City overcame
Newcastle United after extra time.
Hull had lost 1-0 to Spurs in the English
Premier League on Sunday and they
came within a whisker of exacting
swift revenge on their return to White
Hart Lane.
Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson
was one of the players brought into the
Spurs team and he made a stunning
impact in the 16th minute, flummoxing
his marker with a neat drag-back and
then arrowing a sumptuous shot home
from 25 yards.
Second-choice goalkeeper Brad Friedel
made a less favourable impression,
however, gifting Hull an equaliser in
the 53rd minute.
Liam Rosenior's low cross from the
right was hooked back across goal by
the sliding Curtis Davies and Friedel
inadvertently fumbled the ball into his
own net for an own goal.
Spurs saw 20-year-old midfielder
Harry Kane rattle the woodwork from
20 yards in stoppage time, but it was
Hull who struck first in extra time,
with Paul McShane heading home
from a George Boyd corner.
Kane would not be discouraged,
however, and he drilled home a 108th-
minute equaliser to make it 2-2 and
send the game to penalties.
Aaron McLean missed for Hull before
Spurs' record signing Erik Lamela
fluffed his lines for the hosts, but
Friedel had the final say, saving with
his legs from Ahmed Elmohamady to
secure a nail-biting win.
Spurs' reward was a home time with
West Ham United, while Manchester
City will travel to second-tier Leicester
City after Alvaro Negredo and Edin
Dzeko struck in extra time in a 2-0 win
at Newcastle.
City made ten changes to the team
beaten 2-1 at Chelsea on Sunday, with
Javi Garcia the only player to keep his
place, while Newcastle manager Alan
Pardew brought five new players into
his starting line-up.
There was an early blow for the
visitors when Montenegrin forward
Stevan Jovetic had to go off in the tenth
minute following a challenge by Mike
Williamson, with Negredo coming on
in his place.
Newcastle enjoyed the best of the first
half, but Shola Ameobi was thwarted
by City goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon
and had a goal ruled out for offside,
while Vurnon Anita volleyed just wide.
City upped the tempo after the interval,
with James Milner and Negredo both
going close, and it was Negredo who
broke the deadlock in the ninth minute
of extra time, sweeping home a low
cross from Dzeko.
Dzeko got on the scoresheet himself
moments later, skirting Krul and
rolling the ball home to rubber-stamp
City's place in the last eight for the
fourth time in seven years.
The draw for the quarter-finals handed
Manchester United an away game at
Stoke City, who were beaten 3-2 at Old
Trafford in the league on Saturday.
Chelsea will visit the victors of the one
remaining fourth-round tie between
Sunderland and Southampton, which
is due to be played next Wednesday.
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