Read Joe Bernstein's match report from the Britannia Ronald Koeman felt Southampton deserved the late winner from Graziano Pelle that sent them through to the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup at the expense of Stoke. Saints looked in control at 2-0 up at half-time against the team they beat in the Premier League on Saturday, but the Potters fought back and levelled through Mame Biram Diouf with eight minutes remaining. Stoke appeared to be the more likely winners at that stage but Peter Crouch saw red for two yellow cards in less than a minute. Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic was helpless as Graziano Pelle's strike curled inside his left-hand post
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Southampton beat Stoke 2-3 at the Britannia on Wednesday night
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Graziano Pelle scored a late winner to send the Saints through
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Ronald Koeman's side will face Sheffield United in the last eight
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Saints manager felt his side deserved the Capital One Cup win
'At 2-2 I felt we were in the ascendancy and we could go on and possibly win it from a situation where at 2-0 down you think it's going to be very hard against a very good @placeholder team.'