Ten-man Sheffield Wednesday suffered a dismal second round defeat in the Carling Cup at League Two side Port Vale on Tuesday.

Quickfire second half goals from Kris Taylor and Rob Taylor settled a game of few chances, the most enterprising of which were created by Vale.

The Owls offered little at the other end, a situation only compounded by the first half dismissal of Francis Jeffers.

And Wednesday were duly made to pay as Vale turned up the heat after the break to end the Owls' League Cup hopes for one more year at least.

Brian Laws shuffled his pack at Vale Park, with a total of seven changes made to the side that beat Scunthorpe 4-0 in the Championship three days earlier.

Frank Simek, Mark Beevers and Richard Hinds each came into the back four, Tommy Miller captained the team from midfield, with Etienne Esajas and Sean McAllister also starting in the engine room.

New loan recruit Luke Varney was ineligible having represented parent club Derby County in this season's League Cup, so Jeffers was recalled to the attack for what would prove an ill-fated night for the Wednesday striker.

There was little joy for Jeffers or partner Marcus Tudgay in the early exchanges, although Chris Martin was the busier of the two goalkeepers, diving low to smother a speculative Miller long-ranger in particular.

But the game soon descended into a tame affair with neither side truly carving a chance of note until the 20-minute mark, when John McCombe headed over from Kris Taylor's teasing cross.

Louis Dodds forced Lee Grant into his first save ten minutes before the break as Vale began to show more in the final third but two minutes later the game sparked into life when Jeffers saw red.

The former Everton man clashed with Tommy Fraser in an off-the-ball incident near the halfway line and referee Graham Salisbury, after seemingly consulting with the fourth official, dispatched Jeffers down the tunnel.

The incident charged the action, with Vale certainly enjoying the upper hand, albeit briefly before the half time whistle sounded at perhaps the wrong time for the hosts.

The interval gave Wednesday the chance to regroup and Laws opted for a double substitution for the second period. Former Port Vale man Akpo Sodje replaced Esajas and Jermaine Johnson came on for McAllister.

But it was Vale that resumed with the bit between their teeth and they could and should have taken the lead on 50 minutes. Adam Yates robbed Johnson on the by-line and delivered a looping cross to the back post, where Rob Taylor stabbed goalwards only to be denied by the scampering figure of Grant.

But the Staffordshire side were not to be denied and struck two goals in as many minutes to seal their passage into round three.

First Kris Taylor launched a rocket shot on 63 that flew past Grant from all of 25 yards before Rob Taylor found space two minutes later in the danger zone to volley home and send the Vale fans into raptures.

The shell-shocked Owls mustered the odd attack in a bid to trigger a late rally but Vale held firm all over the field to post a fully merited Carling Cup upset - their second this season having already beaten Sheffield United in the same competition.

Port Vale: Martin, Taylor, McCombe, Loft (Griffith 78), Richards (Horsfield 89), Fraser (c), Yates, Dodds (Jargensen 82), Collins, Owen, Taylor

Unused substitutes: Weston, Stockley, McCrory

Sheffield Wednesday: Grant, Simek, Hinds, Beevers, Spurr, McAllister (Johnson 46), Potter, Miller (O'Connor 71), Esajas (Sodje 46), Jeffers (sent off 37), Tudgay

Unused substitutes: O'Donnell, Purse, Wood, Buxton

Referee: Graham Salisbury

Attendance: 6,667