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Neil: Norwich should have beaten Everton

They have secured just one point from their last three games however they have played Premier League heavyweights in the forms of local rivals, Liverpool and title chasers, Manchester United and Arsenal.

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“Of course we want to be better in terms of keeping clean-sheets but it’s very easy and soft to look at the last man standing in front of goal in those situations”.

“Overall it was well-deserved passage through to the next round with the quality we showed in the penalty shootout”, Martinez said after the game.

Hoolahan’s penalty was saved by Joel Robles before Redmond skied his effort to seal the Toffees’ place in the quarter-finals after a fearless display from Neil’s squad saw the tie end 1-1 after 120 minutes – Leon Osman cancelling out Seb Bassong’s opener.

Gareth Barry is suspended after seeing Red against the Gunners while goalkeeper Tim Howard will be replaced by his understudy Joel Robles.

“I thought it was a fantastic cup tie”. His composure and demeanour was very, very good.

Roberto Martinez side had a great run going until the last 2 games and Everton will be looking to get back on track here against a solid Norwich city team. I can’t believe we’ve left Hooper go out and kept him here. There was an incredible atmosphere and I thought our players controlled that very well.

“I felt if any team deserved to win it, it was us”.

Three out of four of Tuesday’s League Cup fixtures ended level after extra-time requiring penalty shootouts to separate the sides.

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Hoolahan, who slipped before seeing Robles stop him from 12 yards, was not the only Norwich player to miss in the shoot-out, with Nathan Redmond firing over with the game on the line at 4-3. “They can take huge positives from that”.

Norwich manager Alex Neil is ready to make changes to his team for the trip to Everton