Source: Liverpool_Echo
Hull 0, Everton 4: Blues stroll to biggest away win of David Moyes' reign
IT was the kind of scoreline that made you want to grab hold of a microphone, stride purposefully on to the pitch and burst into song.
Everton’s recent past has been littered with a catalogue of difficult cup ties, so it was about time that things were evened up; only in his dreams, however, would David Moyes have imagined this trip by Humber would have turned out to be so easy.
A goal for a returning hero, assured performances from men who have been waiting patiently for a chance and signs that his new boys are settling in nicely, the fact that the Blues recorded their biggest away win during his reign put the gloss on a perfect night.
What a difference six days makes; from wondering what direction the campaign was heading in before AEK Athens arrived on Merseyside, three emphatic wins and eleven unanswered goals means that expectations can start climbing once again.
Unfortunately, Everton are not going to find opponents anywhere near as accommodating as Phil Brown’s Hull City were here; on this evidence, the perma-tanned man known as ‘Chocolate’ will not be doing any karaoke to celebrate Premier League survival next May.
That said, you can only beat what is put in front of you and such was the Blues’ superiority on their second visit to the KC Stadium, few would have argued had the final scoreline been doubled; this was as one sided a game as you could ever imagine.
The difference between the atmosphere here and the last domestic cup game Everton played in May was total and it would take an enormous amount of poetic licence to suggest that this was a fixture that captured the imagination.
Though he made five changes to the side that had flattened Blackburn Rovers on Sunday, there was nothing ‘reserve’ about the men Moyes had selected for duty – had he asked these eleven to contest a Premier League match, nobody would have complained.
