Everton v Manchester United: Carabao Cup quarter-finals – live! | Football

14 min: Tuanzebe steals Godfrey, Fernandes has a shot desperately blocked by a slipping Mina, and Olsen is nearly reunited at Cavani’s feet. Everton need to calm down here.

12 min: Wow, Olsen looks nervous. He completely loses orientation with the ball at his feet and Cavani gets something on him … before the goalkeeper recovers. Shades of Alex Runarsson at Arsenal last night on these shooting stopper nerves.

11 min: United’s fifth corner! They’re building up pressure old-fashioned. Richarlison takes it, but Everton are camped in their own half.

10 minutes: Olsen hesitates to step out of his line and Coleman has to concede another corner. Everton is not yet in the races. However, they remove this a little more easily.

9 min: Cavani tries one of … errrm … halfway through, and the less said the better. It’s good to be confident!

8 min: Mina has gone up and finally comes the next corner. It’s not properly cleared, and eventually Pogba finds Van de Beek in the box. Your effort is blocked from behind! Cavani tries to convert a Pogba move from corner # 3 but, perhaps thankfully given he wrinkles his lines, he’s offside again. United caused a lot of annoyance on those set pieces.

5 minutes: Corner for a happy-looking United, won by Tuanzebe on the right. Telles delivers it well, causing a combination of Mina and local rookie goalkeeper Olsen to divert him. Mina gets hit on the nose and hurts herself: the physiotherapist is on.

3 min: Fernandes has a golden opportunity to play Cavani on his left, but in unusual ways he does so. Quick start of the men in red.

2 minutes: Running from United early but Cavani is called offside. Not sure about that. We now have VAR so you’ll have to do without graphics and super slow motion tonight!

United starts and kicks from left to right, on your TV. Interestingly, if you were #in the game, the press box is on the other side.

Carlo from Heeeeere:

“An important game, an important competition, we are going to play against a very tough opponent, so we have to try to do everything possible to reach the semi-final. It is a dangerous team, fast, very good in counterattack and possession. We have to concentrate, concentrate and use our quality when we have the ball ”.

“Great OGS team selection, high hopes for a good football game tonight, lots of goals and no injuries for either team.” writes Neil Carter. Amen to all that!

Matt Burtz writes about a strong Everton team: “This Everton fan acknowledges that his lineup tonight is as strong as it could be considering injuries. They recently kept a clean sheet against two of the top five in the league in xG (Chelsea and Leicester) and the back four have been robust since the change in the middle of the game from Burnley. Hopefully the inclusion of Coleman doesn’t alter that too much, although it should provide something more in the future than Holgate. “

Solskjaer says: “It’s a hectic schedule, we have a game, thank you very much! – Saturday at 12.30. Some of these players needed a game and I think they are a strong team that can match them physically ”.

Donny van de Beek is off to a welcome start, as are Mason Greenwood, Edinson Cavani, Dean Henderson, and Axel Tuanzebe.

The Spurs have won 3-1 in Stoke. Get the sequels with Paul Doyle!

Everton: Olsen; Coleman, Godfrey, Keane, Mina; Douroure, Gomes, Sigurdsson; Iwobi, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin. Subs: Pickford, Kenny, Holgate, Tosun, Bernard, Gordon, Davies.

Manchester United: Henderson; Tuanzebe, Bailly, Maguire, Telles; Matic, Pogba, van de Beek, Fernandes; Greenwood, Cavani. Subs: Grant, Fosu-Mensah, Shaw, Fred, Lingard, Martial, Rashford.

Your next installment of the Carabao Cup festive fare is here! Who will join Man City, Spurs (it seems) and … yeah … Brentford in the last four?

It’s a good question because we really don’t know. Everton are flying high in the league, but have a loss in them, including 3-1 setback against opponents tonight at this very venue.

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last month. They looked very confident against Chelsea and Arsenal recently, and they have done well despite a long injury list, but they have a formidable hurdle to overcome tonight.

We may not have described United as one of those very often recently., and they’re never too far from an existential Ole crisis, but domestically they’re really flying and wouldn’t it be a shot in the arm to break Man City’s grip on this competition?

Yes, I would. Let’s see if they can, or if it’s a Merry Christmas for Carlo Ancelotti’s team! The start is 45 minutes.