Ancelotti's Everton tops Spurs in a nine goal thriller to advance in the FA Cup

Ancelotti's Everton tops Spurs in a nine goal thriller to advance in the FA Cup

 

Bernard fired past Hugo Lloris to send Everton to the quarter finals of the FA Cup at Goodison Park on Wednesday. (Photo credit: Sky Sports News)

Jose Mourinho’s dream of making it a brace of Wembley appearances after booking a date with Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final got dashed in a thrilling fashion on Wednesday night.

 

Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton dumped Tottenham Hotspur from the FA Cup with an extra-time goal from Brazilian winger, Bernard on Wednesday night at Goodison Park to send his team through to the quarterfinals with a 5-4 win.

 

Tottenham opened the scoring and took a deserved lead inside of five minutes when Colombian defender Davinson Sanchez headed Son Heung Min's corner past Everton’s second choice goalkeeper Rob Olsen.

 

Everton hit back to go ahead in the span of several first-half minutes with a Dominic Calvert Lewin goal and Richarlison strike from outside of the penalty area that flew past a diving Hugo Lloris in the Spurs goal.

 

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg was then whistled for a penalty after tripping Calvert-Lewin in the area and Gylfi Sigurdsen stepped up and calmly sent Lloris the wrong way from the spot to put Everton up 3-1.

 

However, Spurs scored just before the break as Erik Lamela pounced on a Yeri Mina mistake and slotted a neat, left-footed shot past Olsen to half the deficit for Jose Mourinho's team to a single goal at half-time.

 

The back-and-forth match continued in the second half with Spurs drawing level at 3-3 before the hour mark through Sanchez's second of the night when he redirected a saved header off Olsen's mitt and tapped into the back of the net.

Richarlison fired Everton back in front with his second goal, beating Lloris at his far post with a screamer after Sigurdsson played him into the area with a clever little through ball, although the Frenchman would wish he had done better with that.

Seven goals so far and no signs of Harry Kane? 

Wait no more, the England striker finally scored to put Tottenham back on level terms with a smashing header at the back post from a beautiful, whipped in cross from Son that set the teams on course for extra time.

 

Sigurdsson added to his assist tally in the first period of extra time with a lovely chip over Spurs' defense and into the box that left Bernard time to settle, have a look at goal and fire an unstoppable volley past Lloris to give Everton the lead yet again.

Ancelotti and Everton will now await results from the final two matches of the FA Cup on Thursday to see who they will face in the quarterfinals.