PORT VALE 0

MIDDLESBROUGH 3
Howson 11, Rogers 23, Crooks 53
Middlesbrough cruised into the Carabao Cup semi-finals after breezing past Port Vale 3-0.
Jonny Howson, Morgan Rogers and Matt Crooks fired the 2004 winners in to the last four with a comfortable win at Vale Park.
Boro had not made a major domestic semi-final since losing to West Ham in the last four of the FA Cup in 2006.
Vale’s big night – their first League Cup quarter-final – was ruined by the incisive and efficient visitors within 23 minutes.
Gavin Massey missed the hosts’ best chance but Boro boss Michael Carrick, a two-time w...