Manchester United ‘didn’t deserve anything’ out of last night’s Capital One Cup exit, according to manager David Moyes, who bemoaned his side’s lacklustre performance.
As Sunderland progressed to Wembley after beating United on 2-1 penalties Moyes admitted that his side had put in a poor performance.
The Reds were moments from setting up a juicy final encounter with Manchester City before conceding a late equaliser that threatened to send them crashing out of the cup.
However, Javier Hernandez came to the rescue, turning home a late goal to send the match to penalties. He was, however, simply delaying the inevitable.
“Credit to Sunderland, they played well and we didn’t play well on the night,” Moyes told Sky Sports News.
“With a minute to go (with the aggregate score at 2-2) we thought we had got ourselves through. We got back in it and we had a chance with the penalty kicks but overall we didn’t play well enough tonight.
“A lot of games this season we have played well and not had our rewards. We didn’t really deserve anything tonight with how we played.”
Jonny Evans had headed United ahead in the first half and his goal looked like it would be the decider as the clock wound down in injury time.
However, Former United man Phil Bardsley had other ideas and grabbed an equaliser that sent the Sunderland fans into raptures.
Hernandez’s late strike gave United hope but missed penalties from Danny Welbeck, Adnan Januzaj, Phil Jones and Rafael meant that Moyes’ boys came up short.
“When we had the moments and chances to get a second goal, we made the wrong decisions or didn’t finish it off,” Moyes added.
“But Sunderland played well and I have no problem with them going through, they deserved it.”
After the match the Scot leapt to the defence of Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea whose blunder allowed Sunderland back into the game.
“David has been really good this season but people do make mistakes,” Moyes said.
“It was a costly one and it looked as though we would have gone through. But that’s football for you and that’s how it is just now.”
As for United’s penalty impotence Moyes was unimpressed.
“That was really poor and I expect better but it has happened,” he said.
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