Chelsea out on penalties, pressure mounts on Mourinho

Capital One Cup victories for Stoke City, Everton and Hull City – all on penalties

Stoke City 1 Chelsea 1 (5-4 on penalties)

The pressure on Jose Mourinho intensified on Tuesday night after his Chelsea side were dumped out of the Capital One Cup on penalties by 10-man Stoke.

The beleaguered boss, looking for some respite from his team's awful form in the Barclays Premier League, found only more misery as Eden Hazard's spot-kick was saved by Jack Butland following a 1-1 draw, giving Stoke a 5-4 shoot-out success.

The defeat was Chelsea’s fourth in their last six games in all competitions and will turn up the heat yet further on the under-fire Portuguese manager.

The holders looked set to lose in 90 minutes as Jonathan Walters’ 52nd-minute goal, a fine shot on the turn from the edge of the area, put the Potters in front.

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But Loic Remy, on for the injured Diego Costa before half-time, fired home in injury-time when the ball broke to him following a corner, and Stoke lost Phil Bardsley to a second yellow card shortly after.

But the hosts held on for penalties and after nine successful attempts Butland denied Hazard to send Stoke into the quarter-finals.

Everton 1 Norwich 1 (4-3 on penalties)

Everton reached the Capital One Cup quarter-finals after keeping their cool in the penalty shoot-out to advance past Norwich.

The two sides could not be separated after 120 minutes in a 1-1 draw, but the Toffees converted all four of their penalties while Joel Robles saved from Wes Hoolahan and Nathan Redmond shot over when needing to score as Everton progressed 4-3.

Sebastien Bassong’s first goal since December 2012 had given Norwich a 51st-minute lead that was cancelled out by Everton captain Leon Osman’s equaliser 17 minutes later.

Robles then made a fantastic save from Lewis Grabban in the final minute of normal time before helping the hosts gain the upper hand in the shoot-out by denying Hoolahan.

Hull City 1 Leicester City 1 (5-4 on penalties)

Hull were also successful on penalties, knocking out Leicester 5-4 after a 1-1 draw.

Riyad Mahrez failed with the first attempt of the shoot-out, having earlier put the Foxes in front 10 minutes into extra-time — a goal that was soon matched by Hull's Abel Hernandez.