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DAVID MOYES’ MISERY continued this evening as Sunderland dumped Manchester United out of the Capital One Cup on penalties.
United full-back Rafael missed the decisive penalty to send Sunderland through to the Wembley final against Manchester City.
It was United who had one foot in the final after Jonny Evans levelled the tie at 2-2 on aggregate, forcing the game to extra-time but still leaving Sunderland in need of another goal under the competition’s away goals rule.
Gus Poyet’s side appeared to have snatched victory at the death when David de Gea fumbled Phil Bardsley’s low shot into his net in the final minute of extra time.
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But United were not done and deep into stoppage time, Javier Hernandez got on the end of Adnan Januzaj’s low cross and finished off the underside of the crossbar.
What followed then was one of the most comically inept displays of penalty-taking in recent memory.
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The first two penalties, by Sunderland’s Craig Gardner and United’s Danny Welbeck, were blasted over the bar before Steven Fletcher’s effort was saved by David de Gea.
Darren Fletcher eventually scored to put United 1-0 up but misses from Januzaj, Phil Jones and crucially Rafael proved costly as Marcos Alonso and Ki Sung-Yeung did just enough to send the Black Cats to Wembley — and pile the pressure on Moyes.
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