Full-Time: EVERTON 2-0 FIORENTINA. (2-2 on aggregate, Fiorentina win 4-2 on penalties.)

Substitute Santana coolly beats Howard. Everton are out. Everton 2-4 Fiorentina.

It's almost all over for Everton as Frey saves Jagielka's penalty. Everton 2-3 Fiorentina.

Osvaldo has no trouble beating Howard. Everton 2-3 Fiorentina.

Arteta calmly slots his penalty home. Everton 2-2 Fiorentina.

Montolivo rifles his spot-kick into the roof of the net. Everton 1-2 Fiorentina.

Yakubu sends Frey the wrong way but the ball comes back off the post. Everton 1-1 Fiorentina.

Pazzini puts his penalty into the top corner of the net. Everton 1-1 Fiorentina.

Gravesen slams home the first penalty. Everton 1-0 Fiorentina

The 30 minutes are over. A penalty shoot-out beckons.

With penalties looming, Thomas Gravesen replaces Johnson.

Pazzini almost snatches it for Fiorentina at the death, only to drag his shot narrowly wide.

Fiorentina have looked much more solid in extra-time than they did in the first 90 minutes.

Osvaldo almost sneaks in between Yobo and Neville as he chases a long ball. Howard eventually mops up the danger though.

The seconds are ticking by. Everyone inside the ground appears to have resigned themselves to a shoot-out.

Not for the first time, Pasqual hacks Yakubu down. The Nigerian striker has been at his best tonight.

Both sides are looking very tired. It's a surprise Moyes has only made one substitution. Maybe he'll bring his best penalty-takers on in the next few minutes.

Johnson breaks free down the right but is unable to find Yakubu with his cross.

Fiorentina make their final change with Jorgensen making way for Mario Alberto Santana.

Moyes brings on Victor Anichebe for Pienaar.

The second half of extra-time at Goodison Park is underway.

It's the end of the first period of extra-time. It's looking increasingly like penalties.

Yakubu breaks free and looks certain to score but the ball gets tangled up in his legs and the chance is lost.

Jorgensen is booked for hacking Phil Neville down.

Play is very sterile as both sides worry about making a fatal error.

The lively Pazzini drags a shot narrowly wide. He's been good since coming on at half-time.

Everton immediately move on to the attack, desperate for that crucial third goal.

Fiorentina have brought on Massimo Gobbi for Zdravko Kuzmanovic.

The game restarts. Can anyone grab a winner in extra-time?

The 90 minutes are over. It will indeed be extra-time.

With surely the last attack of normal time, Yakubu heads Arteta's free-kick inches wide with Frey beaten.

Alessandro Gamberini is stupidly booked for throwing the ball away after Everton had won a throw-in.

Both sides are taking a breather as they prepare for an additional 30 minutes.

Yakubu is rightly booked for a ridiculous dive.

It's Fiorentina who are pressing in the closing stages of normal time but Everton hold on.

It's looking increasingly like extra-time as both sides tire.

Jagielka flicks a header over the bar as Everton search for a third goal.

Frey completely misses Arteta's free-kick, forcing Tomas Ujfalusi to head the ball over the bar.

From the corner, Dainelli heads narrowly wide. Fiorentina are coming out of their shell now that the tie is level.

Great save by Tim Howard as he acrobatically tips Pazzini's header over the bar.

Riccardo Montolivo's free-kick is terrible - high, wide and not in the least bit handsome.

Yobo clatters into Pazzini and is booked for his troubles.

Yet another corner for Everton, as the oustanding Yakubu powers forward again. It comes to nothing though.

It's all Everton now as they bid to score a third goal before extra-time.

It's almost another goal as Frey denies Yakubu twice.

It was a great goal by Arteta. Everton are really in the ascendancy now.

EVERTON 2-0 FIORENTINA. ARTETA gets the ball just inside his own half, advances a few paces and then unleashes a superb low right-footed piledriver that beats Frey and finds the corner of the net.

Osvaldo appears to be trying to wind up the home players and fans as he embarks on a needless war of words with Carsley.

Another Yakubu shot is blocked by Alessandro Gamberini as Everton go clsoe again.

Pazzini becomes the third Fiorentina player to be booked.

Some of Fiorentina's defending is dire. Frey, who has made some good saves, punches a cross he should really have caught easily.

Everton try to step up the pace as the match enters its final third.

Osvaldo returns to the fray to widespread boos from the Everton fans.

Pablo Osvaldo requires treatment after being caught on the head by Joseph Yobo's elbow.

A poor Phil Jagielka header causes some confusion in the Everton defence but they eventually clear their lines.

Joleon Lescott gets another Everton attack started as Fiorentina continue to panic in defence.

The crowd want a penalty for handball but the referee's having none of it and waves play on.

Pienaar beats the offside trap but fails in his attempt to pull the back for the alert Johnson.

Despite Everton being on top, Moyes is still playing the Mr Angry role on the touchline.

Arteta's low corner causes chaos in the Fiorentina defence with the ball eventually hitting Jorgensen on the line.

Pienaar wins an early second-half corner for Everton.

The visitors have brought on Giampaolo Pazzini for the labouring Vieri.

Fiorentina get the second half underway.

Half-Time: EVERTON 1-0 FIORENTINA.

Johnson has another shot superbly saved by Frey and, although Arteta gathers the rebound and turns the ball to Yakubu who finds the net, the Spaniard was clearly in an offside position.

Johnson's shot is blocked as Moyes' side look for a second goal just before the break.

Everton's play has deteriorated at the same time as the weather has taken a turn for the worse.

Everton have lost their way in the last ten minutes and need the half-time break to regroup.

Fiorentina seem unsure whether to continue defending or look to score an away goal as the rain starts to fall.

Arteta's corner finds Johnson inside the six-yard area but the striker sends his header over the bar.

Yakubu forces his way into the area again and wins a corner.

Yakubu fashions a chance for himself with some tricky footwork but Frey does well to save the former Middlesbrough and Portsmouth man's shot.

Fiorentina appear to have weathered the Everton storm as play gets bogged down in midfield.

Another yelllow card as Riccardo Montolivo incurs the referee's wrath.

The game is nicely poised as Everton continue to dominate.

Dainelli is the first player to go into the referee's notebook.

Martin Jorgensen wins a corner for Fiorentina as the visitors enjoy their first spell of pressure.

Johnson's reputation precedes him as he goes over far too easily in the box when Manuel Pasqual comes across to challenge him. The referee rightly waves play on. Johnson should have been booked for diving.

Fiorentina string a few passes together but they still do not seem entirely comfortable with life at the moment.

The visitors are rattled as a simple ball out of defence turns instead into a rash boot into touch.

Arteta bends his free-kick around the wall, but Frey gets across his goal well to make a diving save down by his post.

Suddenly the Fiorentina defence appears far from water-tight as Dainelli concedes a needless free-kick.

The goal is just what Everton needed although, as at Sunderland on Sunday, Johnson appeared to force the ball over the line with his shoulder. No matter, it's 1-0 to Everton.

EVERTON 1-0 FIORENTINA. Steven Pienaar's cross should be easy for Sebastien Frey, but the Fiorentina keeper makes a hash of taking the ball, and JOHNSON is able to bundle it into the empty net from five yards out.

Everton are finding it hard to pick a way through some determined Fiorentina marking and tackling.

It's only early days, but already the Everton faithful are starting to grow frustrated.

Carsley tries to find Johnson with a long ball, but it's a poor one that goes straight out of play to a chorus of boos from the home fans.

Fiorentina, beaten UEFA Cup finalists in 1990, already look as though they will be a tough nut to crack.

Everton have made a bright start as the Goodison faithful lift the volume levels even higher.

The Nigeria international is soon back on his feet, but now it's Dario Dainelli's turn to be in trouble as Johnson appears to catch him in the eye as both men challenge for a high ball.

Nothing comes from the corner, although there is a worry for Everton as Yakubu appears to have picked up an early knock.

Andy Johnson lays the ball back for Osman whose shot from the edge of the area is deflected for a corner.

Mikel Arteta wins an early free-kick near the corner flag. The Spaniard takes it himself but scuffs the attempted cross into the box and Fiorentina clears the ball.

Everton, in their traditional blue shirts and white shorts, get the match underway.

The Italians, currently fourth in Serie A, are once again without injured striker Adrian Mutu, so veteran former Italy international Christian Vieri leads the attack.

Lee Carsley and Leon Osman replace Tony Hibbert and Tim Cahill in Everton's starting line-up, with the latter not even on the substitute's bench.

David Moyes' side were outplayed in Florence and start the second leg at Goodison Park 2-0 behind and with it all to do.

Everton face a tough task against Fiorentina if they are to reach the last eight of the UEFA Cup.