Liverpool's Mellor brace sees off Boro

Liverpool 2 Middlesbrough 0

Neil Mellor scored twice for Liverpool tonight to dump holders Middlesbrough out of the Carling Cup.

The 22-year-old striker made the most of a rare first team appearance to ease his team into the quarter finals.

Middlesbrough were left cursing their luck with Joseph Desire Job’s shot coming back off the post before Mellor’s opener.