Capital One: Man Utd out as Kloop earns first Liverpool win

Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Ashley Young all missed penalties as Middlesbrough Wednesday night knocked Manchester United out of the Capital One Cup on penalties at Old Trafford.
Boro goalkeeper Tomas Mejias saved from Rooney and Young, while Carrick blazed his effort over in between as Boro advanced to the quarterfinals with a 3-1 victory following a 0-0 draw after 120 minutes.
Louis van Gaal’s side were lacklustre on the night against a side that took Liverpool to penalties in this competition last year and eliminated Manchester City in the FA Cup — and United were fortunate to survive past 90 minutes, with Daley Blind twice surviving own-goal scares.
He saw one wild hack into the net chalked off for an offside flag against Kike before he breathed a huge sigh of relief as Sergio Romero’s miscontrol from his back pass went narrowly wide.
Jesse Lingard struck a post in the 90th minute while Grant Leadbitter and Stewart Downing were denied by Romero in stoppage time.
The hosts should then have sealed their progress as they produced a spate of extra-time misses, Marouane Fellaini, twice, and substitute Anthony Martial guilty of missing close-range headers.
And Boro, losers of a 14-13 shoot-out epic at Anfield last season, made them pay on penalties as United joined Arsenal and Chelsea in crashing out at the last-16 stage.

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Similarly, Jurgen Klopp secured his first victory as Liverpool manager as Nathaniel Clyne’s first-half goal gave a much-changed side a 1-0 victory over Bournemouth in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup. In his fourth match in charge, Klopp handed full debuts to three players, and it was one of them who provided the inspiration for the only goal at Anfield.
Portugal Under-21 international João Teixeira’s wonderfully inventive back-heel may have been cleared off the line, but Clyne was on hand to follow up and give Liverpool a 17th-minute lead that they never relinquished.

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