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Amid pandemonium at Goodison Park, with the stalemate broken in the penultimate minute of extra time, Everton finally got the victory that their supporters were yearning for last night. With a penalty shoot-out looming, Liverpool were beaten by a moment of prodigious brilliance and, as the Everton players celebrated deliriously in front of their success-starved supporters, it was the unlikely figure of Dan Gosling who emerged as the match-winner.

Gosling has started just one match for Everton since arriving from Plymouth Argyle 13 months ago, but his contribution as a second-half substitute here will not be forgotten by the club’s fans. As an over-hit cross from Andy van der Meyde arrived at his feet, the 19-year-old had a crowd blocking his sight of goal, but he showed great poise to switch the ball to his right foot and then curl a shot beyond the reach of José Manuel Reina, albeit with the help of a couple of slight deflections, to spark the wildest celebrations this stadium has witnessed in many years.

Whatever Gosling may or may not go on to achieve for the club, his contribution as a substitute last night will be etched into Goodison Park folklore. To say otherwise is to underestimate their supporters’ desperate craving for a victory such as this. With an injury to Steven Gerrard and a red card for Lucas Leiva thrown in, it even had the sprinkling of schadenfreude that would serve only to heighten Evertonian glee.

For Liverpool, it was a truly wretched night. They had gone into extra time a man short, after the dismissal of Lucas for two stupid bookable offences, but already the tide had turned in Everton’s favour. With Gerrard an early casualty of a tight hamstring and Fernando Torres tackled into submission by Phil Jagielka and Joleon Lescott, Liverpool lacked inspiration. By the time that Leon Osman shot against a post in the 71st minute and Tim Cahill flashed a header narrowly wide in extra time, the momentum was with Everton.

For that, they had Lucas to thank. Already the closest thing there is to a whipping boy among Liverpool’s supporters, the midfield player did his popularity at Anfield further harm with two clumsy, lazy second-half fouls, on Phil Neville and Lescott, that cut his evening short and left his team with a mountain to climb. Perhaps Liverpool will appeal against his one-match suspension — in an attempt to have it increased. That his team-mates failed in his absence owed nothing to their lack of effort; they were exhausted by that stage. It just never looked like being their night.

To that point, it had seemed inevitable that it would come down to penalties. Eighteen years after this city was brought to a standstill by an FA Cup trilogy that involved a 0-0 draw at Anfield, a chaotic 4-4 draw at Goodison Park, which precipitated Kenny Dalglish’s resignation as Liverpool manager, and finally a 1-0 home win for Everton in a second replay, there was a feeling from a very early stage in this tie that it would go right to the proverbial wire. That feeling was heightened by the stultifying spectacle that unfolded here, with both teams seemingly gripped by a fear of losing the tie and losing face in a city where bragging rights count for everything.

As a spectacle, it was frantic. It was not quite Peter Reid against Steve McMahon out there, but players such as Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso, adopted Scousers, refused to give each other the time to exhibit the playmaking skills that they honed while growing up together in San Sebastián, Spain, while Steven Pienaar and Lucas appeared desperate to prove that they understood the wider meaning of this parochial encounter.

Inevitably, it made life difficult for Alan Wiley, the referee. That was perhaps always going to be the case after David Moyes suggested on Tuesday that his team had suffered more than their share of poor refereeing decisions in recent derby matches. Evertonian conspiracy theories were strengthened by first-half bookings for Cahill and Pienaar. Torres, Dirk Kuyt and Marouane Fellaini could all have been booked but Cahill, landing an arm in the face of Carragher, and Pienaar, going in late on Lucas for a second time, had no grounds for complaint. Nor did Lucas when his evening was cut short.

To that point, moments of quality, let alone chances, had been scarce. While Yossi Benayoun and Albert Riera showed some nice touches, they were usually at least 40 yards from goal. It took until the hour for Alonso to produce the kind of pass of which he is capable, sliding the ball to the inside-left position. Regrettably for Alonso, the man on the end of it was not Torres but Riera, whose lack of conviction allowed Tim Howard to save at his feet.

Finally, though, Everton seized the initiative. Reina, relieved to see Osman’s shot strike a post, was certainly the more anxious of the goalkeepers during extra time. The Spaniard, a penalty-saving expert, would have welcomed a shoot-out, but he was denied the opportunity to be the match-winner when he was beaten by Gosling. All night long, a sense of destiny had been beckoning for Everton. Few imagined, though, that while others stood and watched, it would be the teenager who seized it.

Everton (4-4-1-1): T Howard — A Hibbert, P Jagielka, J Lescott, L Baines — L Osman, P Neville (sub: A van der Meyde, 106min), M Arteta, S Pienaar (sub: J Rodwell, 60) — M Fellaini (sub: D Gosling, 53) — T Cahill. Substitutes not used: C Nash, J Yobo, L Jacobsen, S Castillo. Booked: Cahill, Pienaar, Neville, Arteta, Hibbert.

Liverpool (4-2-3-1): J M Reina — Á Arbeloa, M Skrtel, J Carragher, A Dossena — Lucas Leiva, X Alonso — D Kuyt, S Gerrard (sub: Y Benayoun, 17), A Riera (sub: J Mascherano, 80) — F Torres (sub: R Babel, 102). Substitutes not used: D Cavalieri, S Hyypia, D Agger, N El Zhar. Booked: Lucas, Alonso. Sent off: Lucas.

Referee: A Wiley.