Sheffield Wednesday 3 - 0 Notts County

Notts County suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Sheffield Wednesday, the Championship side easing into the second round of the League Cup following a 3-0 win at Hillsborough. The Owls, buoyed after their away win at Brighton & Hove Albion, came out of the starting blocks in spectacular fashion, opening the scoring within the first 90 seconds of the match.

Jacques Maghoma, on the edge of the Notts area, cut inside onto his right foot and fired a powerful curling shot which looped into the top corner beyond Roy Carroll.

Not quite the start that the Magpies would have wanted by any stretch of the imagination, Shaun Derry's boys set about trying to get back into the game.

Notts won a corner through Jake Cassidy just a few minutes later, but it came to nothing.

In the 10th minute, more good wing play from Wednesday, combined with lax County defending, let to the home side doubling their lead.

Chris Maguire sent a cross the way of Gary Madine, who snuck in at the back post to volley a simple finish beyond Carroll in the Magpies net and send the HIllsborough crowd into raptures.

By this point, Notts knew they were in for a long night, and set about trying to blockade their goal and stop Wednesday from scoring any more.

After holding back the Owls, some good play between Alan Smith and Nicky Wroe on the half-hour mark led to Liam Noble breaking free and firing a 25-yard shot just beyond the post.

In the second half, Derry made a triple substitution, Adam Dawson, Jeremy Balmy and Jones all coming on for Elliott Whitehouse, Smith and Wroe.

Despite some promising action in the opening stages of the second period, Wednesday nevertheless proved problematic, with Maghoma setting up Giles Coke who fired into the side netting.

The knockout third goal came just after the hour mark, as Adthe Nuhiu latched onto a Joe Mattock cross to head past the beleaguered Carroll and crush County's remaining spirits.

Notts did eventually find themselves breaching the Owls clean sheet, courtesy of Haydn Hollis, but this was ruled out for offside, and the game eventually came to an end, as did County's run in the League Cup.