Everton beat Newcastle United 3-1 at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Thursday, 29 October, to reach the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, where they will face League Two side Fleetwood. According to ESPN, James Garner scored in the 34th minute, Hayden Hackney added a second in the 45th, and Thierno Barry made it 3-0 in the 69th before Dan Burn headed in a consolation goal for Newcastle in the 88th. Barry’s goal was his seventh in 11 appearances this season. Everton are chasing their first silverware since the 1995 FA Cup, and manager David Moyes said talk of the quarter-finals “sounds good”.
The case that Everton deserved the win starts with how the goals came. Garner scored from the edge of the area after Tyrique George pressed Amar Dedic into a poor clearance and Hackney slipped the ball to him. Hackney, who made only his third start for the club since joining from Middlesbrough in the summer, scored on the stroke of half-time after a cross from Barry, and Barry himself finished a Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall cross for the third, so three different players supplied the passes for the three goals. Burn’s header, with two minutes of normal time left, came too late to matter. Everton also played without Jack Grealish, who was left out after what the club called a breach of discipline linked to an unauthorised absence from training. Everton are clear favourites to reach the last four, according to ESPN, and winning without Grealish, with Hackney making only his third start, suggests a squad with some depth.
The case against reading too much into the score is that Newcastle began the game the better side. Jordan Pickford made saves early on, Vitalii Mykolenko blocked a strike from Jacob Ramsey, and James Tarkowski had to make a key challenge to stop William Osula from close range. Newcastle also protested when Harvey Barnes went down in the area, but the appeal was waved away. The visitors had the better of the early exchanges until Garner’s opener changed the tie, and the second goal arrived on the stroke of half-time, a damaging moment to concede. At half-time the visitors brought on Anthony Elanga, Joelinton and Yoane Wissa, and they still scored only once, late. Newcastle, who won this competition in 2025, travelled with about 8,000 supporters and went out at the fourth-round stage.
The result matters for both clubs beyond the cup. For Everton, a place in the last eight of a competition that offers a short route to a trophy, with a League Two opponent next, keeps the club’s first silverware in three decades within reach. For Newcastle, the cup exit comes before a rematch: the clubs meet again in the Premier League on Tyneside on Monday night, when the visitors will want a response and Everton will want to show the win was no one-off.
Everton have taken their chance, and a trophy drought that has lasted since 1995 now looks a little less certain to continue. Newcastle must use the Monday rematch to show that the defensive errors in this tie were an exception.
