Poyet: Players fought to take spotkicks
Sunderland boss Gus Poyet has revealed his players were up for their penalty shootout at Manchester United.
Sunderland are into the Capital One Cup final after holding their nerve as the semifinal was decided on penalties.
Poyet revealed that his players had been so keen to step up for penalty duties that there had even been a heated dispute between two of them over who would take one of the spot-kicks - Phil Bardsley and Ki Sung-yueng, who ended up scoring it.
Poyet said: "I couldn't believe it. The players were asking for the penalties. You don't get that too many times.
"We even had a little bit of a fight between Phil Bardsley and Ki for the fourth! We are going to have to practice more for the final, just in case."