EVERTON boss David Moyes expressed his pride at the way his side finally overcame Liverpool in the FA Cup to set up a fifth-round home tie with Aston Villa on February 15.
And Moyes had special praise for teenage match-winner Dan Gosling, who struck the extra-time winner to win this Merseyside derby replay in the 118th minute after it appeared to be heading for penalties.
Moyes said: "I'm proud of them, but there is more to come. I enjoyed that one, but we move on now.
"I was delighted with the two youngsters, Gosling and (Jack) Rodwell, to come on in such an important cup tie and play as well as that.
"But it says, too, a lot about the other players. We have had so many injuries and we picked up more during the match, it meant we were looking around to see what we could change.
"So it was the young boys who had to come on and I did not have any worries putting the two lads on. They had the energy we needed, and it was not a worry for me to put them on.
"Gosling is a really good lad, he wants to learn and is a good trainer.
"He is a well-mannered boy who wants to improve and hopefully we can keep developing him.
"He can play in a few positions, and we paid £500,000 down with another £500,000 after a set number of games, that's all."
Liverpool lost skipper Steven Gerrard early in the game with a hamstring injury.
He will not play at Portsmouth on Saturday, and is almost certainly out of England's friendly next Wednesday against Spain in Seville.
Boss Rafael Benitez said: "Steven Gerrard will have a scan tomorrow to see the extent of the injury, we do not really know yet.
"Steven was tired, and he gets injured. He was tired, too, at Wigan but when I took him off there everyone was saying he had to play every single minute of every match. Now you have seen the consequences.
"He asked to be taken off, you could see at Wigan he was struggling and the same thing happened here."
Liverpool were under the cosh from the moment Lucas was sent off in the second half of normal time.
Benitez said: "We are really disappointed, to play for a long time with 10 men and to concede like that from a deflection at the end, you have to be disappointed.
"The turning point of the game was the second yellow card for Lucas, I was not happy, but I do not want to say anything about the referee."
Moyes said: "I'm proud of them, but there is more to come. I enjoyed that one, but we move on now.
"I was delighted with the two youngsters, Gosling and (Jack) Rodwell, to come on in such an important cup tie and play as well as that.
"But it says, too, a lot about the other players. We have had so many injuries and we picked up more during the match, it meant we were looking around to see what we could change.
"So it was the young boys who had to come on and I did not have any worries putting the two lads on. They had the energy we needed, and it was not a worry for me to put them on.
"Gosling is a really good lad, he wants to learn and is a good trainer.
"He is a well-mannered boy who wants to improve and hopefully we can keep developing him.
"He can play in a few positions, and we paid £500,000 down with another £500,000 after a set number of games, that's all."
Liverpool lost skipper Steven Gerrard early in the game with a hamstring injury.
He will not play at Portsmouth on Saturday, and is almost certainly out of England's friendly next Wednesday against Spain in Seville.
Boss Rafael Benitez said: "Steven Gerrard will have a scan tomorrow to see the extent of the injury, we do not really know yet.
"Steven was tired, and he gets injured. He was tired, too, at Wigan but when I took him off there everyone was saying he had to play every single minute of every match. Now you have seen the consequences.
"He asked to be taken off, you could see at Wigan he was struggling and the same thing happened here."
Liverpool were under the cosh from the moment Lucas was sent off in the second half of normal time.
Benitez said: "We are really disappointed, to play for a long time with 10 men and to concede like that from a deflection at the end, you have to be disappointed.
"The turning point of the game was the second yellow card for Lucas, I was not happy, but I do not want to say anything about the referee."
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