MATCH ANALYSIS GAME OF THE MONTH Everton 2 GOAL OF THE MATCH Funes Mori (45+1), Lukaku (78) Manchester City 1 Everton's opener owed much Navas (76) to the penalty area predatory instincts of Ramiro Funes Capital One Cup SF, L1 – 06/01/2016 Mori, so it was the patient Goodison Park, Liverpool passing move from right to Attendance: 35,314 left for our winning goal, immediately after Manchester Everton (4-2-3-1): City had levelled, which gets our vote. Calm and composed in Lukaku possession, Seamus Coleman, Cleverley Barkley Deulofeu Kevin Mirallas, Muhamed Besic, Leighton Baines and Man of Barry Besic the Match Gareth Barry were all involved, with the latter Baines Coleman delivering a fine inswinging Funes Mori Stones cross from the left flank that an injured Romelu Lukaku Robles buried into the Gwladys Street net from close range, to send Goodison into delirium. Subs: Osman (Cleverley 46), Mirallas (Deulofeu 68), Kone (Lukaku 82). Subs not used: Howard, Jagielka, Galloway, Lennon. Manchester City (4-2-3-1): Aguero Silva Toure De Bruyne Delph Fernandinho Clichy Sagna Mangala Otamendi Caballero Subs: Demichelis (Mangala 46), Navas (Delph 54), Fernando (De Bruyne 90+1). Subs not used: Hart, Kolarov, Sterling, Iheanacho. WHAT THEY SAID: ROBERTO MARTINEZ (Everton manager) "We know we have a momentous, BLUES UP AFTER STIRRING FIRST LEG huge second leg and we will have 8,000 Evertonians with us Goals in each half from Ramiro Funes Silva were well off-target, while Nicolas they’d finished the first – with vigour and at the Etihad. We wanted to win Mori and Romelu Lukaku edged Everton Otamendi powered a header wide. The purpose. Caballero held a shot from Besic, the first leg and we have done closer to Wembley as the Blues secured Argentina defender was involved in play at turned away a cross-shot from Deulofeu that. I am very, very proud of a 2-1 win in their Capital One Cup semi- the opposite end too, making a well-timed and then kept out Ross Barkley's near-post our performance. We conceded final first leg with Manchester City. challenge on Lukaku in the area. effort as the Toffees threatened. to a really good counter attack As manager Roberto Martinez had Everton grew into the contest as the The game became more stretched, with but showed a winning mentality hoped, it was a night to remember under half progressed and Goodison was on its Joel Robles pushing away De Bruyne’s to come right back. We showed the famous Goodison floodlights. feet when John Stones tapped home on effort. But there was nothing he could do great character." But the gloss was taken off the win 35 minutes. The goal was swiftly ruled out, after a swift City counter-attack, when slightly by injury concerns to Lukaku, Tom however, with Barry and Mori both straying Navas – who had earlier seen penalty MANUEL PELLEGRINI Cleverley and Seamus Coleman, who all offside from Leighton Baines’ free-kick. appeals turned down following a challenge (Manchester City manager) had to leave the action prematurely. It was the same story moments later – from Kevin Mirallas – was found in space by "It was important to level at The first half was a slow burner, and the this time Lukaku having a strike correctly Aguero before slotting into the corner. ROM THE WINNER: POSSESSION PLAY: SEMI-FINAL OMENS: the moment we did, we were opening 20 minutes passed by without a chalked off for similar reasons having The Blues’ response was as impressive BELGIAN HITS 19 10 MEN NO PROBLEM IS ONE GOAL ENOUGH? playing better, but Lukaku is chance of note for either side. City had the converted Gerard Deulofeu's deft flick. as it was immediate. A patient passing a great striker and scored a majority of possession but they were kept There was no linesman’s flag to thwart build-up resulted in Barry’s cross The Blues will hope the Any worries about holding The last side to go through great header. They scored a at arm’s length as the Blues worked hard the Blues a third time as Mori struck in finding Lukaku's head for his 19th goal knock Romlu Lukaku picked on to the advantage once to the League Cup final goal that was absolutely offside off the ball to keep their defensive shape. first-half stoppage time.Ross Barkley’s of the season. It was the striker’s last up will not be too serious, Seamus Coleman was having won the first leg 2-1 and in the second half we had Muhamed Besic, one of three changes shot was pushed away by Willy Caballero involvement, having picked up a knock with his match-winning forced off – Everton had at home was Sunderland a clear penalty. We have just to the side who drew with Spurs, was busy and the former River Plate man was alert moments earlier – and the Blues had to header taking him to 19 for already made all three subs in 2014, who knocked out played 90 minutes and it was throughout alongside ex-City man and to convert the rebound, with defenders finish with 10 after Coleman limped off late the season – and his 12th – were banished by the Man Utd on pens after the very important not to concede stand-in skipper Gareth Barry. appealing for offside against Lukaku. on although they saw it out comfortably, goal in as many games in coolness on the ball and second leg also ended with another goal." Pot-shots by Kevin De Bruyne and David Everton started the second half as with dreams of Wembley firmly intact. league and cup. movement off it. the same scoreline. 30 31 MATCH ANALYSIS BLAST FROM THE PAST By Louis Roberts Chelsea 0 Everton 1 The Blues had been winless on the road when they travelled to Rideout (39) Stamford Bridge in November 1994, with Joe Royle at the helm Premier League – 26/11/1994 Stamford Bridge, London Attendance: 28,115 Chelsea (4-4-1-1): Spencer Peacock Wise Burley Newton Spackman Minto Barness Sinclair Kjeldberg Kharine Subs: Furlong (Newton 69), Hoddle (Burley 73). Sub not used: Hitchcock. Everton (4-4-2): Ferguson Rideout Hinchcliffe Limpar Parkinson Horne Ablett Jackson UnsworthWatson ROYLE SELECTION INSPIRES BRIDGE WIN Southall Subs not used: Kearton, Stuart, When Everton travel to Stamford Bridge Duncan Ferguson, then still a Rangers the left side of midfield. It was that same winning goal – the Toffees' first away FA Cup, he was by the time he hung up his Amokachi. this month, they will do so having won loanee, set what would soon be dubbed defence, in fact, the same team line-up league strike for 622 minutes – it was the boots in 2006, and upon returning in a just once in 23 Premier League visits. ‘The Royle Revolution’ into motion with that would go on to keep a clean sheet and man described by the Daily Express as coaching capacity in 2011. That instance came on 26 November his first goal for Everton before sub Paul achieve victory against Manchester United ‘the scruffiest goalkeeper in the land’ that "Soccer is like snakes and ladders" 1994, as Joe Royle’s men left with a Rideout wrapped things up. It was the in the FA Cup final later that season. would prove to be Everton’s hero, as a rued Hoddle, who came on for Craig clean sheet and three points in the bag dream start for Royle, and a real turning Chelsea fielded an XI that pales in series of ‘stupendous saves’ were rewarded Burley in the 74th minute, after his team WHAT THEY SAID: against a pre-Roman Abramovich but point in a season that would end with the comparison even with this season’s with Neville Southall’s fourth clean sheet was thwarted by Rideout, Southall and a Joe Royle nonetheless troublesome Chelsea side, Blues finishing 15th and as FA Cup winners. underachieving side. In a retrospective in as many games. That number would resilient Everton defence, "We slid down (the smiling Everton who had finished runners-up in the FA Conversely, Chelsea came into the game article, the Liverpool Echo claimed that eventually stretch to seven, in a run of a snake today." There would be no sliding manager – in response to Cup the season before. three days after a disappointing goalless ‘it’s probably fair to say that future eight games unbeaten, before Sheffield in the near future for Joe Royle’s Toffees, Chelsea chairman Ken Bates Everton were in high spirits after a draw at Tottenham, whose ‘undisguised Evertonian John Spencer was no Diego Wednesday brought the Toffees back down though, as they completed a positively telling the home crowd pre- thrilling 2-0 defeat of Liverpool five days siege mentality’– a characteristic that Costa’, whilst Russian goalkeeper Dmitri to earth with a 4-1 battering on Boxing Day. flawless trio of matches with a 3-0 win match: "There's just been earlier, a match that resonated all the ironically would become very familiar Kharine and Danish centre-back Jakob Though Neville kept his sheet clean that over Leeds United nine days later. This a new musical named after more with fans for a multitude of reasons. to Bridge crowds over the following two Kjeldberg are unlikely to challenge Petr day, it was his team that ended up falling was the beginning of an exciting time for Duncan Ferguson. It's called Not only was it Royle’s first game in decades – had thwarted Glenn Hoddle’s Cech or John Terry in any all-time Chelsea foul of the referee.