{"id":626960,"date":"2026-09-17T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626960\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:24:10","slug":"efl-cup-everton-1-0-wolverhampton-wanderers-charly-alcaraz-claims-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626960\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Cup &#8211; Everton 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers: Charly Alcaraz claims winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves, who made nine changes from Sunday&#8217;s Championship win over Sheffield United, made the brighter start but suffered a blow when key striker Raul Jimenez went off injured in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mexico international&#8217;s replacement, Adam Armstrong, had a one-on-one effort saved low by Everton keeper Jordan Pickford in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts, who made six changes from the goalless draw with Tottenham in the Premier League, were frustrated as Virginia shone on his return to Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Garner had an effort on goal and Michael Keane headed just wide, before Virginia foiled substitute Brennan Johnson when the forward broke through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Grealish, who started his first Everton game since January following his loan return from Manchester City, played for 76 minutes before he was replaced by Tyrique George.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton face Ipswich Town on Saturday (15:00 BST) in the Premier League, while Wolves host West Brom in a West Midlands derby (12:00 BST) on Sunday in the Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolves, who made nine changes from Sunday&#8217;s Championship win over Sheffield United, made the brighter start but suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-626960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}