In the round of 16 of the FA Cup in England, the oldest football tournament in the world, Everton and Tottenham played a great game: nine goals and many more situations. The duel for the team Carletto Ancelotti, who won 5-4 in overtime against the Spurs of Jose Mourinho.
The match ended tied 4-4 at regular time. Dominic Calvert-Lewis, Richarlison (two) and Gylfi Sigurdsson, on penalty, scored for Everton, while Erik Lamela, Davinson Sánchez (two) and Harry Kane did it for the Portuguese team Mourinho. The local finally uneven after 6 minutes of the first extra time, with a goal from the Brazilian Bernard.
The defeat was a hard blow for Jose Mourinho. Was just the third time in the Portuguese coach’s career that a team of his has received five goals, the first since January 2015, when his Chelsea lost 5-3 to Tottenham, then led by Mauricio Pochettino.
Summary: the 9 goals of Everton and Tottenham
Earlier, Manchester City kept its unstoppable march and they qualified without problems to the quarterfinals when winning 3-1 in their visit to Swansea. The Citizens accumulate 15 consecutive wins in all competitions, a new record in the elite of English football, and surpasses the mark of 14 successes in a row for Preston (1892) and Arsenal (1987). Once again, the Argentine Sergio Agüero was out of the call.
“It cannot be denied that it is a pride to beat this mark. The records are to be broken, but you have to do it well. It is not easy in the modern era to achieve fifteen consecutive victories,” said Pep Guardiola, the coach of the ‘Citizens’ . The Catalan DT thus celebrated his 200th victory – in 268 games – as Manchester City manager.
Kyle Walker (30), Raheem Sterling (47) and Gabriel Jesus (50) scored for the Citizens. With the pass to the quarterfinals in their pockets, City still have chances to aspire to a historic poker at the end of the season, since he is also the leader of the Premier League and is qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League (against Borussia Mönchengladbach) and for the final in the English League Cup, in which he will be measured against Tottenham. Manchester City aspires in this Cup of England to a seventh title, in which it was champion in 2019 and where it lost last season to Arsenal in the semifinals.
Leicester, third-placed in the English league, had many more problems, who beat Alexis Mac Allister’s Brighton (entered the second half) in injury time (1-0), with a goal from Iheanacho.
To the quarterfinals of the FA Cup Bournemouth, Manchester United, Manchester City, Leicester, Sheffield United, and Everton are already qualified. The last two will be known this Thursday, with the Wolverhampton vs. Southampton and Barnsley vs. Chelsea.
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