(Football news) In the first match, the 10-man Toffees battled to a goalless draw at Selhurst Park. Later this month, the winners will face either Luton Town or Bolton Wanderers.
During Everton and Palace’s cup match on January 4, a striker named Dominic Calvert-Lewin challenged Nathaniel Clyne, going in high but seemingly missing the mark. Three Toffees players watched in complete confusion while Chris Kavanagh evaluated the play.
Nevertheless, Kavanagh questionably saw fit to whip out the red card – which would be the headline story of that 0-0 affair in the English capital – but the Eagles failed to make the most of playing the final 15 minutes with an extra man on the pitch.
Everton have since succeeded with an appeal against Calvert-Lewin’s sending off, which added yet more fuel to the fire over the perpetual VAR debate, but it was Sean Dyche’s men who were on the correct end of a technological call during another goalless stalemate with Aston Villa in the weekend’s Premier League battle.
Alex Moreno and Abdoulaye Doucoure both had strikes ruled out for offside on the Goodison turf – the former’s took much longer to review, and while that point snapped Everton’s three-game losing run in the Premier League, it is now no wins in six for Dyche and co.
Everton have seemingly fallen back into old attacking habits too, as the Toffees are now without a goal in three straight matches, but they have triumphed in each of their last four FA Cup replays at Goodison Park and have not been beaten in such circumstances since 1993-94.
