Chelsea 5-4 Manchester United (aet)

Chelsea came from behind to reach
the last eight of the Capital One Cup
with a pulsating 5-4 extra-time victory
over Manchester United at Stamford
Bridge.
Just four days after suffering their first
Premier League defeat of the season at
the hands of the same opposition -
when the Reds edged a five-goal
thriller - the Blues enjoyed a measure
of revenge following another goalfest
in west London.
However, the Blues had to come from
behind three times and needed a last-
gasp Eden Hazard penalty to take the
match into overtime.
United were gifted an opening goal on
21 minutes when Oriol Romeu was
robbed by Anderson who set up Ryan
Giggs to fire a low curling left foot
strike beyond the reach of keeper Petr
Cech.
Yet the Blues were level from the
penalty spot eight minutes later:
Alexander Buttner tripped Victor Moses
and David Luiz smashed the ball into
the bottom left-hand corner of the net
although keeper Anders Lindegaard
managed to get a hand on it.
Javier Hernandez was at his predatory
best to fire United back in front two
minutes before half-time.
After Anderson pounced on a Luiz
mistake, the Brazilian spotted
Hernandez who raced clear of the
home defence before slipping the ball
past an advancing Cech.
Chelsea were level for a second time
seven minutes after the break when
Juan Mata's corner was crisply headed
home by Gary Cahill.
However, Nani superbly chipped
United back in front just before the
hour mark after playing a quick one-
two with Anderson - who collected his
third assist of the night.
And with 93 minutes on the clock, a
clumsy Scott Wootton bundled over
Ramires in the box and Hazard cooly
slotted home Chelsea's second penalty
of the evening to take the tie into extra-
time.
Wooton was also at fault when Chelsea
went ahead for the first time just seven
minutes into extra-time.
The youngster's weak mis-directed
header back to his keeper was
gratefully gobbled up by Daniel
Sturridge who made amends for his
previous misses to fire Chelsea 4-3
ahead.
And four minutes from the end of
extra time, Hazard set up Ramires who
rounded Lindegaard to slip the ball
into an empty net and put Chelsea 5-3
ahead.
There was still time for Giggs to score
the ninth goal of the evening from the
penalty spot, following a foul by Cesar
Azpilicueta on Hernandez in the 119th
minute, yet it came too late to save the
visitors as the Blues made it through to
the quarter-finals of a competition they
used to call the League Cup.