Carling Cup Results 24th August 2010 Part 2

Leyton Orient 0-2 West Bromwich Albion
Leyton Orient were unlucky not to take the lead in the 8th minute but Boaz Myhill was having one of his good days and better teams than Orient have struggled to get past him. It’s fair to say Bo’s West Brom debut went well although the dominance of West Brom meant that he didn’t have a lot to do.

Millwall 2-1 Middlesbrough
The favourites to go down took the lead after 29 minutes when the favourites to win the league conceded a penalty. This was despatched by Steve Morison - as always I am very grateful for any Welshman who can score penalties. Millwall made it two ten minutes later. Middlesbrough did get one back in the 89th minute but it was a bit late by then. Millwall manager Kenny Jackett was delighted with his team’s performance.
Danny Coyne was on the bench for Middlesbrough.

Milton Keynes Dons 4-3 Blackpool (after extra time)
MK Dons took the lead as early as the first minute and I was really disappointed. I wanted to see giant-killings. I wanted Blackpool to win. Then it got to half-time and I suddenly remembered Blackpool are in the Premier League now and MK Dons are nowhere near as good as Wimbledon.
Things got exciting in the 52nd minute when both sides scored twice to make the score 3-3. Then Blackpool got a penalty, which they scored. I started to celebrate, then I remembered again. Wrong minnows.
The match went into extra time and MK Dons got a late winner. I started to groan then remembered I should be cheering. Well done to MK Dons but to be fair to Blackpool, Ian Holloway had picked a second-string side before pissing off to watch some transfer target.
Jermaine Easter ended his goal drought for MK Dons when he scored their second goal of the night. He must have liked the feeling a lot because he did it again two minutes later. The hat-trick wouldn’t quite come but he did get the assist for the fourth goal.
Neal Eardley and Rob Edwards were in the starting line-up for the first time since Blackpool became a Premier League club. Neal got the assist for Blackpool’s first goal and nearly scored for them to. David Vaughan was rested and wasn’t in the squad at all.

Morecambe 1-3 Burnley
Morecambe went ahead in the 12th minute and spent nearl 20 minutes leading the former Premier League side. Bur Burnley fought back with three goals including a penalty and it was quite a boring and predictable result in the end.
Darren Moss played the first 72 minutes for Morecambe. Conceding the penalty probably didn’t help his cause but he did stay on for eleven minutes afterwards so he probably wasn’t substituted for that reason.