Southampton dealt Arsenal a shock defeat in the English League Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday as goals from Jordy Clasie and Ryan Bertrand earned Claude Puel's side a 2-0 win.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had been hoping to win the competition for the first time, but instead his decision to make 10 changes backfired as Southampton ended his side's 19-game unbeaten run.
Southampton, which also eliminated Arsenal from the competition two seasons ago, reached the semifinals after losing its last six last-eight ties in the competition.
Dutch midfielder Clasie's blistering drive put Southampton ahead in the 13th minute at the Emirates Stadium.
England left-back Bertrand added a second seven minutes before half-time, gathering Sofiane Boufal's pass and rifling a shot into the bottom corner.
Mohamed Elneny was the only player to have kept his place from Arsenal's 3-1 win over Bournemouth on Sunday, but he succumbed to injury before half-time and was replaced by Granit Xhaka.
It was Arsenal's first defeat since a 4-3 loss at home to Liverpool on the opening weekend of the Premier League season.
Zlatan, Martial hit brace to help Man U cruise
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Anthony Martial scored twice as Manchester United crushed West Ham United 4-1 in the League Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday.
United manager Jose Mourinho >served a one-game touchline ban after his dismissal for kicking a water bottle during Sunday's 1-1 Premier League draw against West Ham, but his absence had no ill-effects.
Ibrahimovic put United ahead in the second minute and although Ashley Fletcher equalised, Martial's second-half brace restored the host's control before the Swede added a fourth goal in added time.
United, which has made its worst start to a top-flight campaign since 1989, joined Southampton, 2-0 victors at the Emirates Stadium, Liverpool and Hull City in the draw for the semifinals. The game at Old Trafford notably saw Bastian Schweinsteiger make his first appearance of the season for United as a late substitute.
The former Germany captain has only recently returned to the first-team squad after being frozen out by Mourinho and received a huge ovation as he came on. West Ham had needed less than two minutes to take the lead in Sunday's game, but on this occasion United was the early bird.
Wayne Rooney's clever reverse pass picked out the advancing Henrikh Mkhitaryan and the Armenian's alert back-heel freed Ibrahimovic to lift the ball past West Ham goalkeeper Adrian.
West Ham levelled in the 35th minute with a bolt from the blue as David de Gea spilled Dimitri Payet's shot and former United youngster Fletcher tucked in his first senior goal in front of the Stretford End. Fortunately for United, it started the second half as sharply as it had attacked the first, a move down the right culminating in Mkhitaryan squaring for Martial to sweep home.
Rooney bloodied
West Ham's cause was not helped by the fact it lost both wing-backs, Aaron Cresswell and Michail Antonio to injury, and after Adrian had saved from Martial and Ibrahimovic, it was 3-1.
Ibrahimovic was the architect with a fine pass down the inside-right channel for Antonio Valencia, whose cross was tapped in by Martial. Ibrahimovic doubled his tally in the 93rd minute, slotting in Ander Herrera's low cross from the left.
The only source of regret for United was a booking for Rooney that rules him out of Sunday's trip to Everton, nixing his hopes of scoring a club record-equalling 249th goal against his old side.
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