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| Manchester United won 4–1 on penalties | |||||||
| Event | Football League Cup 2008-09 | ||||||
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| Date | 1 March 2009 | ||||||
| Venue | Wembley Stadium, London | ||||||
| Player of the Match | Ben Foster (Manchester United) | ||||||
| Referee | Chris Foy (Merseyside) | ||||||
| Attendance | 88,217 | ||||||
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The 2009 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2008–09 Football League Cup, the 49th season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. The match was played at Wembley Stadium on 1 March 2009, and was contested by Tottenham Hotspur, who won the competition in 2008, and Manchester United, who last won the competition in 2006. The two joint-top goalscorers played for each of the finalists. Roman Pavlyuchenko of Tottenham Hotspur, who scored in every match in which he played in the tournament up to the final, and Manchester United's Carlos Tévez; both players have six goals each.
Manchester United won 4–1 on penalties, after the match ended as a goalless draw in normal time. United converted all four of their penalties, while Tottenham missed two of their three. It was only the second time that the League Cup Final had been decided by a penalty shootout.
The man of the match was Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster, who became the first goalkeeper since Jerzy Dudek in 2003 to win the Alan Hardaker Award.
Match details[]
| 1 March 2009 15:00 GMT |
Manchester United | 0 – 0 (a.e.t.) | Tottenham Hotspur | Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 88,217 Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside) |
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Giggs  Tévez Ronaldo Anderson
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4 – 1 |  O'Hara Ćorluka Bentley
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MAN OF THE MATCH
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Road to Wembley[]
- See also- Football League Cup 2008-09
Manchester United[]
Tottenham Hotspur[]
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