Dominic Calvert-Lewin ends drought as Everton sink Sheffield Wednesday
24-Jan-2021 21:57:29 | The Guardian
There are some nights where an FA Cup upset can almost be felt in the air around you. This, from a very early stage, was not one of them. Everton and Sheffield Wednesday have contested the final on two occasions before in the past, but here, you only ever felt that it would be the Premier League side whose ambitions would continue for at least another round.
In truth, things could not have gone much better for Carlo Ancelotti against a side whose performance and recent form is much more impressive than their league position suggests. As such, that made this a potentially tricky tie to navigate, but the manner in which Everton got the job done will have been mightily encouraging. Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s return from injury marked with a goal, James Rodríguez once again looking back to somewhere near his best, and debuts for academy graduates Thierry Small and Tyler Onyango: the former becoming the club’s youngest-ever player in the process, aged 16 years and 176 days.
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