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60 min: Hackney is booked for preventing a restart on halfway. That\u2019s a daft one, it wasn\u2019t as though Newcastle were going anywhere fast.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min: Hackney is skittled 30 yards from goal, just to the left of centre. A promising situation \u2026 but Dewsbury-Hall slams a witless free kick straight into the wall. Newcastle counter through Elanga, who is stopped in full flight by Rohl\u2019s well-timed last-ditch challenge. Next goal feels so important \u2026 though they always do, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 58 min: Elanga wins a corner. Pickford claims it. Everton<\/a> counter through Dewsbury-Hall, who nearly finds Barry six yards out with a cross from the left. Murphy heads clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 57 min: Dedic shoots again. Blocked again. Newcastle are pinning Everton<\/a> back, and the Hill Dickinson crowd are properly living on their nerves now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 min: Dedic latches onto a loose ball, the best part of 30 yards from the Everton<\/a> goal. He aims a first-time drive goalwards; the ball loops off Hackney\u2019s ankle and nearly spins into the top left. Wide and high, but it\u2019s a corner, and though nothing comes of the set piece, Newcastle are finally applying a little bit of pressure. Everton\u2019s fans, starved of exciting cup runs for so long, are understandably getting a bit edgy now, with so much to lose.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 54 min: A simple long Willock pass down the middle nearly opens up Everton<\/a>. Wissa nicks in ahead of O\u2019Brien, but can\u2019t get enough power on an attempted looping header over Pickford, who claims.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 52 min: Elanga makes a nuisance of himself down the left and feeds Hall, who crosses deep. Murphy, from a tight angle beyond the far post, tries to volley goalwards but can\u2019t get his effort on target. To be fair, that would have been one heck of a finish had he connected properly. It wasn\u2019t exactly a gimme.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 min: A fairly nondescript start to the second half, which will suit Everton<\/a> just fine as the clock ticks on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 min: Murphy drifts in from the right but scuffs his shot. Newcastle haven\u2019t exactly flown out of the blocks with momentum-shifting intent.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 47 min: Everton<\/a> start the half in a relaxed manner. They\u2019re 45 minutes away from a long-awaited proper cup run.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Newcastle, who get the second half started, have indeed sent on Joelinton. They\u2019ve also brought on Elanga and Wissa. Osula, Barnes and Ramsey have made way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Selected punditry courtesy of the Sky Sports + Red Button half-time team.<\/p>\n \u201cNewcastle need to get William Osula onto the ball some more\u201d \u2013 John Logie Baird The red button: behind the curtain. Photograph: Bettmann\/Bettmann ArchiveShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.51 EDT<\/p>\n HALF TIME: Everton 2-0 Newcastle United<\/p>\n Everton assume control of this tie with a quick one-two, and with Fleetwood Town waiting in the quarters, dreams of a march to the semi-finals may be a tad previous \u2026 but also understandable! It\u2019s party time at the HDS.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Everton 2-0 Newcastle United (Hackney 45)<\/p>\n Barnes shoots. A deflected shot is gathered by Pickford, who sends Dewsbury-Hall off on the counter. Ramsey clips Dewsbury-Hall, but the ball breaks to Barry on the left, so the referee waves play on. Barry clips the cross back into the centre, and Hackney, rushing in, opens his body to slot across Hornicek and into the bottom left!<\/p>\n Hayden Hackney doubles the lead for the home side with a smart finish. Photograph: Carl Recine\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.35 EDT<\/p>\n 43 min: Barnes and Osula combine at close quarters on the penalty spot. Osula goes over. No penalty. Then Barnes is clipped lightly by Tarkowski, though it\u2019s not enough for the referee. Erm. Indistinct colours clashing, a bit like this \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.35 EDT<\/p>\n 41 min: Tarkowski runs the ball out of play down the left for a corner. He wears the look of a guilty man, and waits for a whistle that doesn\u2019t come. So then he clears his lines. At least the ball looked over the line in super non-sharp lo-def \u2026 but let\u2019s not belabour the point any more.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 39 min: Some pinball in the Everton<\/a> box. The ball breaks to Barnes, on the left-hand corner of the six-yard box. He drags a weak shot wide left. Newcastle have not achieved very much since falling behind.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 38 min: A throw for Everton<\/a> deep in Toon territory down the right. O\u2019Brien flings it long. Some shoving. Ramsey wins a free kick and Newcastle clear their lines. \u201cAt least the teams are wearing contrasting shirts,\u201d begins the text written on Andy (not that one) Flintoff\u2019s subterranean bar, \u201cso if Sky decided to go back to B\/W (to save more bandwidth than they already are doing with their high picture compression) you could tell them apart.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 36 min: That\u2019s got the Hill Dickinson bouncing. Newcastle have been the better side on balance \u2013 just about \u2013 but Everton<\/a> have come up with the one moment of true quality. They\u2019ll be heading to Fleetwood for a December quarter-final as things stand!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Everton 1-0 Newcastle United (Garner 34)<\/p>\n Out of nothing, a moment of sheer quality! Pickford goes long down the left. George gets the better of Dedic and lays off to Hackney, who shuttles further infield for Garner, who lets the ball roll across him before whistling an unstoppable shot across Hornicek and into the bottom right! Lovely goal.<\/p>\n James Garner fires Everton in front! Photograph: Ryan Browne\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.25 EDT<\/p>\n 32 min: Osula felt that block from Tarkowski, and he needs a little bit of treatment. He should be fine to continue, though. It\u2019s not quite sparked, this match. \u201cI think Jack Grealish might be onto something with his little No Show at training,\u201d quips Chris Paraskevas.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30 min: Willock feeds Osula in the Everton<\/a> box down the left. Osula shoots. Tarkowski blocks; he had to. Everton counter through Garner down the right, but with blue shirts in the middle, the resulting cross is not good.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 28 min: Barry chases a loose ball. Schar gets there first and batters it straight into him. A throw is one. Pleasingly old-school, like the 405-line Marconi-EMI system used by Sky Sports the BBC in the 1930s.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.18 EDT<\/p>\n 26 min: Dibling drags a poor shot wide right. He had options in the middle; poor decision. \u201cYou say it\u2019s Andy Burnham in the house but it looks like Andoni Iraola has come to curse it,\u201d writes Ian Copestake, who doesn\u2019t say whether he\u2019s viewing this MBM through the Sky Sports + Zoetrope system.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 25 min: George has a dig from the edge of the box. His shot is deflected and nearly drops to Hackney on the penalty spot, but the luck\u2019s not with Everton<\/a> here and Newcastle are able to toe-poke clear. The home crowd, muttering away with concern not so long ago, are vocal now.<\/p>\n Photograph: Ryan Browne\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.16 EDT<\/p>\n 23 min: Dibling teases Hall down the right and wins Everton<\/a> their first corner of the evening. Dewsbury-Hall swings it in. Barnes larrups the dropping ball clear. A decent response from Everton, who were on the ropes for a while back there.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 21 min: Mykolenko and George combine crisply down the left. A low cross comes in. Hackney meets it at the near stick with a sidefoot, but doesn\u2019t get any purchase on the shot, which dribbles into the arms of Hornicek. That\u2019s better from Everton<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 19 min: Barnes dribbles hard down the inside-left channel. His shot-cum-cross is deflected back to Pickford by Dibling. It\u2019s all Newcastle right now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 18 min: Now Schar has a pop from distance. Pickford parries. Newcastle are suddenly completely on top, and there are a few murmurs coming down from the HDS stands.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16 min: Now it\u2019s Barnes\u2019 turn to win possession far too easily in the midfield. He slips in Willock down the left. Willock shoots from a tight angle. Pickford spills, but there\u2019s a nearby blue smudge available to clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 14 min: Hall wins a 40-60 in the midfield, Rohl allowing him to win a challenge he never should have won. He powers down the left and feeds Barnes, who enters the box and tees up Murphy, who can\u2019t get a shot away. Ramsey then has a go, but Mykolenko gets in the road. Some last-ditch defending allows Everton<\/a> to get away with a big one. Newcastle should have worked Pickford at the very least.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 12 min: Gonzalez, quarterbacking from deep, pings a long diagonal towards Barnes, on the left-hand corner of the six-yard box. Barnes heads goalwards, but straight at Pickford, who tips around the post. Nothing comes of the resulting corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10 min: There\u2019s not much of a rhythm to this game. No wonder they\u2019ve hidden it away behind the red button on their Plus channel, eh folks, etc. To be fair, at least they\u2019ve cleaned all the slots of their zoetrope.<\/p>\n Vitaliy Mykolenko is challenged by Jacob Murphy. Photograph: Jan Kruger\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.00 EDT<\/p>\n 8 min: Pickford goes long again. Easy for Hornicek on the edge of his own box, neither Barry nor Dibling anywhere nearby.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6 min: Pickford goes long. Barry tries to burst clear down the inside-right channel, but Burn has a hold of him and there\u2019s no way to wriggle into the box. I think. This is like watching a parody of 1970s iron-curtain children\u2019s programming.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4 min: I say that about the colours: at least that\u2019s what the indistinct shapes on the Sky coverage look like. The def is very lo. A lot of flitting in and out of focus. Allow me to adjust both my aerial and my tin hat, but I wonder if they\u2019d treat a tie involving Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal or Spurs with this level of ill-defined disdain?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2 min: Dewsbury-Hall shoots. Deflected. Nothing comes of the corner. Everton<\/a> are playing in blue, Newcastle a pinky purple.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The match begins. Sky\u2019s red-button treatment of this game, squirrelled away deep in its planner, is little short of a disgrace.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.48 EDT<\/p>\n Some more on the Jack Grealish fiasco \u2026 courtesy of our man on Merseyside, Andy Hunter.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n PM 4 EFC. Andy Burnham is in the house tonight, offering his support to his beloved Everton. He\u2019s the first prime minister to support the club, though Harold Wilson used to frequent Goodison in the 1960s and 1970s, albeit as a Huddersfield Town fan. Newcastle United<\/a> have to make do with Tony Blair, famously photographed playing keepy-uppy with Kevin Keegan back in the mid-1990s. As in so many other ways, Clem Attlee rises over Blair and Burnham like a colossus, on account of having actually played the game for non-league Fleet Town, but we\u2019re going well off piste now.<\/p>\n Socialism! Soccer! Photograph: Gary Oakley\/Everton FC\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n There are only three clubs left in this season\u2019s competition to have previously won the League Cup. Liverpool and Manchester City have 19 wins between them, Newcastle another one. Everton<\/a> are one of three clubs to have at least reached the final (1977 and 1984), Sunderland (1985 and 2014) and Bradford City (2013) being the other two. Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and Fleetwood Town are yet to make it to a final. So while the door\u2019s not quite yet at the stage of flapping wide open for some history makers to barrel through, it is at least ajar. Possibilities ahoy!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Some more Carabao Cup<\/a> related news.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Competition rules and reminders.<\/p>\n 1. The winner of tonight\u2019s tie will travel to Fleetwood Town for a quarter-final to be played the week commencing 14 December 2026. Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.51 EDT<\/p>\n Team news: Grealish dropped due to ‘breach of Club discipline’<\/p>\n Everton make two changes to their starting XI following last weekend\u2019s 2-0 defeat at Arsenal. Hayden Hackney and Tyler Dibling come in for Brennan Johnson and Harrison Armstrong, who both drop to the bench. Jarrad Branthwaite is unavailable due to concussion protocols, while Jack Grealish has been dropped from the squad \u201cdue to a breach of Club discipline\u201d, reportedly the result of an unauthorised absence from training.<\/p>\n Newcastle United make one change to their starting line-up following last weekend\u2019s 2-0 win at Crystal Palace. Jacob Ramsey takes the place of Joelinton, who starts as a sub.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.04 EDT<\/p>\n The teams<\/p>\n Everton: Pickford, Rohl, Tarkowski, O\u2019Brien, Mykolenko, Hackney, Garner, Dibling, Dewsbury-Hall, George, Barry. Newcastle United: Hornicek, Dedic, Schar, Burn, Hall, Gonzalez, Ramsey, Murphy, Willock, Barnes, Osula. Referee: Farai Hallam.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.59 EDT<\/p>\n Preamble<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t so long ago that Newcastle United were the watchword for underperforming silverware-repelling giants. But lifting the 2025 League Cup did for that. Now it\u2019s over to Everton, a trophy-hoovering behemoth whose spree started in Victorian times only to come to a juddering and ignominious halt in 1995. It\u2019s about time, and this campaign represents the first stirring of a cup run in a wee while, so people are beginning to talk<\/a>. Fleetwood Town await the winners of this tie in the quarters, so a pathway is opening up. Is this to be Everton\u2019s year, their first in 31? Or are Newcastle to make it a successful London-buses quest, a second pot in three years after that 56-year wait? Only one of these grand old clubs can keep it going past 10pm or so. Kick-off is at 7.45pm GMT. It\u2019s on!<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey should send on Joelinton\u201d \u2013 Stooky Bill<\/p>\n
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2. There is no VAR tonight.
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3. Should tonight\u2019s tie be level after 90 minutes plus stoppages, there will be no extra time and instead the match will move straight to \u2026<\/p>\n
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Subs: Travers, King, Maitland-Niles, Keane, Johnson, Norgaard, Alcaraz, Armstrong, Graham.<\/p>\n
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Subs: Pope, Botman, Joelinton, Bamba, Wissa, Thiaw, Steur, Toure, Elanga.<\/p>\n