FULL TIME: Dynamo Kyiv 5-2 Everton (agg 6-4
And that’s that. There goes Everton’s hope of adding the 2015Europa League trophy to their 1985 Cup Winners Cup. And for the first time in 20 years, there are no English teams in any European quarter final. Still, Everton were the last British side left in Europe this season, by a good 22 hours. They can’t take that away from them.
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90 min +4: One last chance for Lukaku, who bobbles a weak shot goalwards from the left-hand corner of the Kyiv D. Shovkovskiy claims. Besic is booked for a petulant shove on Dragovic.
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90 min +3: The clock ticks on. Kyiv perform some expert faffing.
90 min +2: Barkley slides a pass left for Lukaku, who strides into the area and lashes a shot goalwards. Shovkovskiy claims, despite a slight deflection. There goes Everton’s last, small, delicate sliver of hope.
90 min +1: Antunes is booked for faffing around.
90 min: Gusev goes off, Kalitvintsev comes on. There will be four added minutes. Time for a couple of goals? Probably not. But with this Everton side, anything could happen.
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89 min: Everton’s mini revival looks to have sputtered out. Kyiv knock it around in the opposition half without really bothering to press forward. Time is their best pal.
88 min: A lot of scrappy nonsense in the middle of the park. Suddenly Everton break forward down the left. Osman, on the edge of the box, looks for the top right with a curler. But it’s severely undercooked, and Shovkovskiy claims with a yawn. “Do teams still exchange pennants before big European ties or have they been consigned to the dustbin of history, like rolled up waistbands on shorts and Third Lanark?” wonders Simon McMahon. “Maybe the big cheeses in Geneva should consider a Uefa Pennants League for teams that have dropped out of both the Champions League and Europa League. Arsene Wenger would be up for it I reckon.”
86 min: Baines’s free kick blams into the wall. It comes back to him, and he wheechs a low shot through a thicket of white and blue shirts. It’s on target, but unfortunately for Everton, straight at Shovkovskiy. What a preposterous climax to a preposterous match. I repeat: who needs the Champions League?
85 min: Barkley and Osman tiki-taka their way down the middle of the park. On the edge of the D, Dragovic slides in and upends him. A free kick, in a very dangerous position! If this goes in. If this goes in
FULL TIME: Dynamo Kyiv 5-2 Everton (agg 6-4
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