Soccer:Norwich suffered a stunning 4-0 home defeat at the hands of League One leaders MK Dons as the three newly-promoted Premier League clubs exited the Carling Cup at the second-round stage tonight. Paul Lambert's decision to change all 11 of his Norwich starting line-up backfired in spectacular fashion at Carrow Road.
Luke Chadwick and Sam Baldock had put the visitors in a commanding position at half-time. Chadwick’s second, on the hour mark, was the pick of the goals, capping a fine passing move, and Daniel Powell added to Norwich’s woes seven minutes later with the fourth. The Dons finished with 10 men as Angelo Balanta, a second-half substitute, limped off inside the last 10 minutes with all three changes already made.
Swansea and QPR also tasted defeat with the Swans losing 3-1 at Shrewsbury while the R’s lost 2-0 at home to Rochdale. Swansea had led 10 minutes in through an unfortunate own goal from Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, but Marvin Morgan, hero of the Shrews’ victory over Derby in the first round, levelled midway through the first half as he turned home Lionel Ainsworth’s cross-shot.
Mark Wright struck in the 67th minute, finishing after great work from Terry Gornell, and Nicky Wroe capped it at the death. Rochdale’s Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro slipped home a rebound after five minutes at Loftus Road and Gary Jones made it 2-0 with nine minutes to go with a superb shot into the top left-hand corner.
Aston Villa struggled for 80 minutes against Hereford but Eric Lichaj eventually turned in a scrappy goal and Nathan Delfouneso added a second two minutes from time to make sure.
West Brom had an easier time in dispatching Bournemouth 4-1 at Dean Court. Jerome Thomas scored an early goal for the Baggies and Marc-Antoine Fortune had doubled the advantage by half-time.
Steve Lovell turned in Scott Malone’s cross to get Bournemouth back in it early in the second half, but Simon Cox soon replied for West Brom and Fortune’s 78th-minute strike settled it.
Wolves cruised to a 4-0 win over Northampton with Nenad Milijas and Sam Vokes adding to a brace from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Leicester had to come from behind to see off Bury 4-2 at Gigg Lane. Jeffery Schlupp’s superb opener put the Foxes in front, but Bury stunned the visitors as Andrai Jones and Ryan Lowe scored either side of half-time to turn it around. But Paul Gallagher levelled it with a free-kick before Lloyd Dyer put Leicester in front and Neil Danns made sure late on.
Ramon Nunez scored a brace — the second a fine strike to break a 1-1 tie with seven minutes to go — as Leeds beat Yorkshire rivals Doncaster 2-1 at the Keepmoat Stadium. Nunez’s first came after half an hour to cancel out James Hayter’s early opener.
Nottingham Forest cruised to a 4-1 win at Wycombe on the back of goals in the first six minutes from Ishmael Miller and Lewis McGugan. Robbie Findley and Radoslaw Majewski also scored either side of an Elliott Benyon penalty for the hosts.
Millwall topped Morecambe 2-0 with goals from Hamer Bouazza and Tamika Mkandawire.
In rearranged first-round fixtures, Wilfried Zaha’s brace took Crystal Palace past Crawley 2-0 while Charlton saw off Reading 2-1 with goals from Paul Benson and Jason Euell.
