Steve Stone had his list. Everton had been practising penalties, just as they did before every round of the Carabao Cup and one of Sean Dyche’s trusted assistants, who was in charge of organising the shootout, had his list of takers. Go back more than a quarter of a century and Stone was in the Euro ‘96 squad whose chance of glory ended in a penalty shootout of their own.
In the Carabao Cup now, when Everton were shaping up as the Premier League’s form team, their plan for the shootout had worked. Jordan Pickford had made a save. Their first four takers had scored. Amadou Onana was up fifth, with a chance to win it. He produced a lame, tame penalty. Bernd Leno had the simple task of stopping it. And so, when Idrissa Gueye missed later on and Tosin Adarabioyo scored, Fulham instead advanced to the semi-finals.
