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Rondon spares Everton blushes against brave Boreham Wood (CNA)

LIVERPOOL, England : Salomon Rondon scored twice as Premier League Everton made heavy weather of beating fifth-tier Boreham Wood 2-0 in their FA Cup ...

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Football: Rondon spares Everton blushes against Boreham Wood in ... (The Straits Times)

Everton will travel to Crystal Palace in the quarter-finals. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

The home side were brighter in the second half and Rondon had a simple headed chance from Kenny's delivery that he put over the crossbar, before the same two players combined for the opening goal. Everton created little in the first half as their delivery from wide areas was poor. Mykolenko forced a good save from Taye Ashby-Hammond in the Boreham Wood goal and the keeper had to keep out a curling effort from the excellent Anthony Gordon.

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Everton 2-0 Boreham Wood: Salomon Rondon scores twice to book ... (Daily Mail)

DOMINIC KING AT GOODISON PARK: The ball nestled in the Gwladys Street net but Frank Lampard's demeanour remained as it had done all night.

We have to keep going and use the feeling of the fans and the togetherness. You would have expected, perhaps, the breaking of the seal to open the floodgates but that wasn’t the case, as Boreham Wood kept their shape and remained in with a chance. There will be more enjoyable days and if Palace are beaten in two weeks and Everton find themselves on the way back to Wembley, none of this will matter. The visitors came with a game plan to frustrate, they took their time with goal kicks and set pieces and generally made nuisances of themselves. The breakthrough arrived in the 56th minute, when Rondon pounced in front of the Gwladys Street. Everton attacked with speed of a malfunctioning steam train, chugging along the tracks. it was John Lennon’s wish 51 years ago but things in the world seems even worse at present. Credit to Boreham Wood for stifling Everton but Lampard knew things should have been so much better. As they did so, Imagine was played at full volume and the crowd responded, singing it word for word. That story never threatened to unfold – Boreham Wood needed to have a shot if they wanted to win – but, still, the scene summed up the night. What this group has done is fantastic and we have been in the last 16 of a national cup competition. The two teams came onto the pitch, with Ukraine flags draped over their shoulders, and stood side-by-side.

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Fixtures: Everton Clash Postponed (Watford FC)

Following Everton's progression into the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals, Watford's home clash against the Toffees - originally scheduled for 2pm on March 20 ...

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Two Everton Fixtures Postponed (Everton Football)

Two of Everton's Premier League fixtures have been postponed following the Blues' progression to the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals.

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Rondon At Double As Everton Book Quarter-Final Spot (Everton Football)

But they had to wait until 12 minutes after the break – following a half-time change from Lampard, replacing debutant Nathan Patterson with Richarlison and ...

The goal was reward for Everton’s patience and perseverance. When the match at Selhurst Park takes place, very few people will be reflecting on how Everton advanced through round five. And fatigue was setting in for the visitors when Jonjoe Kenny was allowed to centre for Rondon to convert. Salomon Rondon was the scorer, prodding home Jonjoe Kenny’s low cross. And that was how it turned out after Rondon poked in his second goal for the Club and followed it with a headed finish for this third to book a quarter-final visit to Crystal Palace. And to set up the last-eight trip to Crystal Palace in a fortnight. There was still time for Welch and Price to get their Everton debuts but the meaningful action was done and the hosts left the stage to Boreham Wood to enjoy the adulation of their noisy pocket of supporters. Rondon leapt in the middle and applied enough power to get the better of Ashby-Hammond despite the keeper’s desperate attempts to claw the ball from his line. Rondon stole in front of centre-half David Stephens to toe home at the front post and extinguish the pressure that was growing by the minute. Kenny, who was part of a back three in the opening 45 minutes, seized his first chance to fly up the wing as a right-back. Allan adopted a similar approach to free Rondon in a near-identical position on the right of the penalty area. There was a pass along the floot to unzip the Boreham Wood backline, Doucoure the recipient but thrashing into the side netting.

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Frank Lampard can make good on Everton 'apology' but issue still ... (Liverpool Echo)

Talking point: Chris Beesley highlights the issue of Everton's inconsistency but points out that their FA Cup progress was ultimately all that mattered.

I do apologise!” As the Blues boss admitted on the day of his appointment when he was reminded that his winner in the 2009 FA Cup final had followed his father Frank Lampard senior doing the same in a 1980 semi: “I’ve got a lot of making up to do on that front. Perhaps eager to restore the three centre-back system deployed in his first couple of matches – a tactic of which new director of football Kevin Thelwell, watching from the Main Stand, has also been known to be an advocate of – Lampard ended up picking a starting line-up that contained five recognised defenders at home to opponents some 78 places below them in the football pyramid. Fellow Premier League side Brentford had been blown away 4-1 in the previous round as Lampard enjoyed the biggest-ever win for a Blues boss in his first fixture in charge and heard the home fans sing his name but this proved to be a far more laboured assignment. It seems obvious that the true level of Lampard’s side falls somewhere in between that of Manchester City and Boreham Wood – hopefully far closer to the former – but their search for some form of consistency continues to prove elusive. If you don’t get yourselves ahead early in such contests it can be difficult to break down such stubborn opponents who are content to put 11 men behind the ball – a full-strength Everton could only defeat an even lowlier-placed Woking by a single goal at Goodison in an FA Cup tie in 1991 – but the emphasis was on the hosts as a Premier League team to take the game to the National League side.

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Everton ends Boreham Wood's FA Cup run to reach quarters (Daily Union)

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Salomon Rondon scored twice as Everton ended Boreham Wood's surprising FA Cup run by beating the non-league team 2-0 Thursday to ...

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