Romelu Lukaku scored two radiant objectives to give Everton a 2-0 FA Cup quarter-last triumph on Saturday over his previous club Chelsea, for whom Diego Costa was sent off.
As a bad tempered match neared its determination, Lukaku took a Tom Cleverley go in his step following 77 minutes and fueled past four protectors before covering a relentless shot into the back of the guests' objective.
Only five minutes after the fact, after slick goes from Gareth Barry and Ross Barkley, it was left to Lukaku to convey the executioner blow with another insistent completion that earned Everton a spot in the semi-finals.
"It is an awesome feeling," said Everton director Roberto Martinez. "More than anything, the climate that was made. Each one of us will take it away." Romelu Lukaku's objective was one of the immense objectives we will find in the FA Cup."
The discussion was still to come, be that as it may, as Costa earned a second yellow card following 84 minutes as he responded to a Barry foul by motioning his head towards the Everton man and obviously undermining to chomp him.
Martinez would not be drawn on the Costa episode and Chelsea interval chief Guus Hiddink asserted not to have seen it.
Barry did not cover himself in grandness and in the wake of being reserved as far as it matters for him in that flashpoint, he got a second yellow three minutes after the fact for a foul on Cesc Fabregas, which implied that both groups completed with 10 men.
Rout conveyed a conclusion to a hopeless week for Chelsea, who were disposed of from the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday and didn't really have any possibility of winning any flatware this season.
"Everybody knows where Chelsea were," said Hiddink. "The primary errand was to escape the assignment zone and we did that quick. At that point there were two glasses in question. It is imperative now that we have the pride to play when there is not a lot in question."
Everton's new co-proprietor Farhad Moshiri was in participation at Goodison Park interestingly since paying a reported £200 million to purchase 49.9 percent of the club.
There was little for it is possible that him or the home fans to cheer in the early stages, aside from a first-minute Cleverley volley into the assemblage of Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
Costa was the casualty of a rough early foul from Barry and countered inside of seconds, procuring an alert as he tested the Everton midfielder with a main arm.
Chelsea left-back Kenedy was blessed not to be reserved after two ungainly treks on Aaron Lennon, while Costa reached Phil Jagielka off the ball, engaging for a punishment that was in a flash rejected.
Nor were Everton chaste, with Jagielka reserved for a wild kick at Fabregas.
From the following free-kick, Joel Robles made the principal significant recovery of the diversion by tipping over a plunging exertion from Willian.
Courtois was likewise squeezed without hesitation before the interim, plunging keenly to make a standard prevent from another long-run Cleverley shot.
Chelsea's objective was debilitated again not long after the restart, Ramiro Funes Mori rising great to meet a Cleverley corner with a header that simply cleared the crossbar.
Chelsea at long last demonstrated some assaulting aim, following 56 minutes, and practically scored from their first important raid into Everton region.
Fabregas discovered Costa, who beat Funes Mori and adjusted Robles, just to direct a low shot crosswise over objective and wide from a troublesome, tight point.
Courtois was again squeezed enthusiastically when he surged from his line to confiscate Lukaku, yet the Belgian striker, sold by Chelsea in 2014, would have the last giggle.
"I think the primary objective is the best thing," Lukaku said of his hair-raising opener.
"I didn't know where I was going, however then I was in the container. I saw Gary Cahill not know where he was going so I moved it onto my left foot (and shot)."
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