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Barcelona sail into last 16
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Cruising ahead: Barcelona's Neymar, Cristian Tello and Cesc Fabregas (from left) celebrate their win over Cartagena in the King's Cup on Tuesday. AFP
Cruising ahead: Barcelona's Neymar, Cristian Tello and Cesc Fabregas (from left) celebrate their win over Cartagena in the King's Cup on Tuesday. AFP

 Barcelona eased into the King's Cup last 16 when goals from Pedro, Cristian Tello and Neymar secured a 3-0 second-leg victory at home to third-tier Cartagena on Tuesday for a 7-1 aggregate success.

Barca had to come from a goal down to win the first leg at the modest club on the south coast, who compete in a division one below Barca's B team, 4-1.

Barca, the record winners with 26 Cups, will play top-flight rivals Getafe in the next round after they thumped second-division Girona 4-1 at the Coliseum in the Madrid suburbs to advance 5-2 on aggregate.

Osasuna survived late pressure to see off La Liga rivals Malaga on away goals and will play last season's runners-up Real Madrid or third-tier Olimpic de Xativa in the last 16.
Villarreal won 1-0 at fellow La Liga side Elche to go through 3-2 on aggregate and Levante thrashed second-division Recreativo 4-0 for a 4-1 success over the two legs.

Chelsea lose

Meanwhile in the League Cup in England, substitute Ki sung-Yueng drove in an extra-time winner to take the Premier League's bottom club Sunderland into the semifinals with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Chelsea on Tuesday.

Ki smashed home in the 118th minute after being teed up by Fabio Borini, who had come off the bench to force extra-time with an 88th-minute equaliser.

In the night's other quarterfinal, Edin Dzeko scored twice as free-scoring Manchester City booked their place in the semifinals with a 3-1 win at second-tier Leicester City.

Chelsea, third in the Premier League, looked on course to reach the last four after taking the lead when goalline technology adjudged that a combination of Frank Lampard and Sunderland's Lee Cattermole had bundled a cross over the line.

But they were pegged back two minutes from time when on-loan Borini steered an expert finish past two Chelsea defenders on the line from a tight angle.

The hosts then laid siege to the Chelsea goal and were rewarded two minutes from time when Ki smashed home a low drive to send the home crowd wild.

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(Published 18 December 2013, 23:43 IST)