Former Celt puts one over on Mourinho

Former Celt Ki Sung Yueng wiped the smile off Jose Mourinho’s face with a last gasp winner for Sunderland to knock Chelsea out of the Capital One Cup.

The Korean midfielder is on a season long loan from Swansea and did his bit for new boss Gus Poyet by steering Sunderland into the last eight of the competition.

Sunderland’s miserable run looked like continuing when an own goal from Lee Catermole put Chelsea in front early in the second half but Fabio Borino scored in the 88th minute to take the tie to extra-time.

With penalties looking likely Ki, who won the trophy last season for Swansea, scored in the 118th minute to keep Sunderland’s cup hopes alive.

Sunderland boss Poyet said: “I’m pleased for the players and I’m delighted for the fans. This has been a very hard season for the them but when you find yourselves in the semi-finals, that’s something to enjoy.

“It’s a victory in a special manner, scoring right at the end of the game and right at the end of extra-time. It’s for them, for the players and for the fans.

“We are trying to play a game because I believe it works, and now [we have to do that] very week, every game.

“It doesn’t matter who you play against at every level, if it’s Norwich or if it’s Carlisle in the [FA] cup, every single day, and the more we do it, the more difficult we are going to become to play against, I am sure.”

Bad loser Mourinho said: “Maybe the way is to have a different approach and not to concede goals because when you don’t score enough goals, when you are a very offensive team and you don’t score enough goals to win matches, maybe the right approach is to be more defensive, concede fewer goals and win matches with the few goals we score.

“But that’s not what I want because that’s not what we have in mind in the building up of this team. We want this team to play the way we are playing, we want this team to have evolution, but based on the football we are playing at the moment.

“We need to score goals to finish opponents because we feel very comfortable on the pitch. The possession of the ball becomes easy, the creation becomes easy. We had big chances to score goals, but we didn’t score.”