'Brilliant stuff', 'Johnson > Guardiola' - Sunderland fans delighted after comfortable cup win vs MK Dons
The Black Cats took an early lead, courtesy of an own goal from Dean Lewington.
Aiden McGeady then doubled his side’s lead deep into the second half with a low effort, before fellow substitute Charlie Wyke chipped in with his 16th goal of the campaign to book the Wearsiders' place in the final four of the competition.
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Hide AdMcGeady had a fourth ruled out for offside in the latter stages of the match.
Lee Johnson's men will make their bid for a spot in the final on either February 16th or 17th.
We’ve gathered some of the best tweets from supporters below:
@BaghdadCocaCola tweeted: “Johnson > Guardiola”
@antoneee_x tweeted: “Things I learned : • Dan Neil should start ahead of Scowen. • Jack Diamond is the second best player in the league behind McGeady. • I wish Charlie Wyke was my dad.”
@_robertsafc tweeted: “Never in doubt.”
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Hide Ad@hendo1980 tweeted: “Can’t wait to get to Wembley and have my heart broken again”
@lord_barrold tweeted: “Well done lads. Early goal. Quite a ‘meh’ performance up until the hour and then Lee made some positive changes and we bossed the game, scoring the goals and looked busy. It might be a Pizza Cup but it’s there to be won. 25% chance as it stands”.
@LewisJay17 tweeted: “Job done”.
@mrmitchell78 tweeted: “Dare to dream”.
@AidenMuers tweeted: “Brilliant stuff. Just need to keep that level of momentum for Saturday and the rest of the league games.”