Moment involving Derby County and Scunthorpe United must still leave supporters dumbfounded: View | OneFootball

The first round Capital One Cup game finished 5-5, with the Rams exiting on penalties.

Derby County's 2012/13 campaign was a good one, with the Rams finally exiting a dreadful five years that had seen the club relegated from the Premier League and struggle in the Championship.

Nigel Clough's side finished 12th in the second tier the season before, their best finish since their relegation, and anticipation was high after a successful summer.

Derby brought in Connor Sammon, Michael Jacobs and Richard Keogh as they looked to strengthen for the new Championship campaign.

Their first test came in the form of a Capital One Cup tie against League One outfit Scunthorpe United. The fixture was the first meeting of the two clubs in the competition, while they had last played each other in the league in the 2010/11 season, with the Rams taking four points from the two matches; winning 3-2 at Pride Park, before a 0-0 draw away from home.

In what looked to be a fairly routine late summer cup game, not many would have anticipated the next 120 minutes of football.

Derby took control early and looked relentless

After early domination by the Championship club, Derby finally got the breakthrough that they deserved on the half hour mark, with centre-back Jake Buxton heading home to give the Rams a 1-0 lead.

Five minutes later, Keogh made it two, scoring on his debut, less than a month after he moved from Coventry City.

The Rams were running riot by the half-time whistle came, Theo Robinson made it 3-0 just 10 minutes after Buxton had broken the deadlock, and Clough's team looked to be cruising through to the next round of the competition.

Yet the twists were yet to come, with Scunthorpe pulling one back shortly after the break. Andy Barcham, who is now a training and development manager for a mortgage broker, beat Frank Fielding in the Derby goal to give the visitors hope.

Supporters were treated to a dramatic ending

Buxton's second goal of the evening, and his fifth in Derby colours, looked to end any hope of a Scunthorpe fight-back with less than 40 minutes to go.

Nevertheless, a never say die attitude from the visitors brought up one of the craziest second-halves that has ever been played at Pride Park.

Mike Grella made it 4-2 in the 63rd minute, before the deficit was cut to one just ten minutes later.

Bobby Grant's goal put huge pressure on the Rams to respond, and respond they did through Nathan Tyson, just after Robinson had the chance himself to make it five from the penalty spot.

The forward's spotkick was saved, but it looked as though the game had been killed off by Tyson, yet once again, Scunthorpe came back in this topsy-turvy match.

Two goals in injury time from Grant and Connor Jennings sent the game to extra-time where, ironically, the two sides failed to find the back of the net.

Scunthorpe emerged from the resulting shootout the victors, following 19 penalties, and headed through to the next round in front of just 4,724 supporters.

Speaking after the game, Clough told BBC Radio Derby: "We haven't even started our league programme yet, and we are already feeling rotten. This was an absolutely bizarre game. We had enough chances to score 15 goals and that was the main failing as far as I am concerned."

The result still puzzles many, and for the subsection of the Rams fanbase that were at Pride Park on that August evening, it will go down as one of the strangest matches in the club's history.