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3¹ A mix up in the Everton defence enabled McGRATH to crack the ball just beyond the far post. 4¹ SHANKLAND given a yellow card by WALTON. 5¹ GÖTZE shot wide. 17¹ A corner found SHANKLAND who turned an effort wide. 22¹ GOAL!! A sliced IGOR shot fell to ASSANE DIAO who made no mistake from the edge of the box. (1-0 Everton) 23¹ SHANKLAND waltzed past IGOR and stabbed a tame shot over. 28¹ GOAL!! THOMAS drove an amazing shot against the post with WOOD knocking in the rebound. (2-0 Everton) 29¹ The Forest Green 'keeper saved a swerving effort from WOOD. 31¹ GOAL!! After DEVLIN was pulled to the ground the referee waved play-on and LYONS went on to easily score. (2-1 Everton) 32¹ ASSANE DIAO drove a deadly shot wide from close range. 40¹ PIZZI made space on the right and pulled the ball to WOOD who clipped the ball over. 3² A cross from LYONS left SHANKLAND in plenty of space but he rushed his shot. 9² GOAL!! A wonderful dribble from RUBEZIC gave McGRATH space on the right and SHANKLAND flicked in his accurate pass. (2-2) 10² GOAL!! After a useful build-up WOOD drove a low shot past CLARK. (3-2 Everton) 14² NISBET raced past THOMAS but knocked the ball into the arms of the Everton 'keeper. 16² A wonderful save prevented SPITTAL from scoring a lovely goal. 18² WOOD kicked the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 19² McGRATH beat DUHANEY and blasted the ball to DEVLIN who pulled his shot wide. 23² A shot from SHANKLAND seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to fist the ball away. 25² NISBET flicked an easy chance past the near post. 30² A tame strike from McGRATH trickled agonisingly wide. 37² RÚBEN VINAGRE headed over the bar.

Forest Green   League position: 24 Home league form: XWOL Overall league form: LXXOXWLX Formation: 4-4-2

Line-ups Zander CLARK 5½ 1 5½ Aleksandr MAKSIMENKO (c)Blair SPITTAL 7  2 7  Demeaco DUHANEY(c) Jordan OBITA 8  3 7  RÚBEN Gonçalo VINAGRE Cameron DEVLIN 7  4 7  Mario GÖTZE Rocky BUSHIRI 7½ 5 6  Bobby THOMAS Slobodan RUBEZIC 6  6 7  IGOR Julio Brad LYONS 7  7 7½ PIZZI Ante PALAVERSA 6½ 8 6½ ASSANE DIAO Diaoune(f) (p)Kevin NISBET 7½ 9 7  Chris WOOD (f)Jamie McGRATH 7½ 10 6½ Ngal'ayel MUKAU Lawrence SHANKLAND 7  11 7½ Anan KHALAILI(p) Scott Smillie Manager David Spears-Gellar Stuart FINDLAY    12    Andrei RADU Dimitar MITOV    13    Jonjo SHELVEY Kai FOTHERINGHAM    14    Stanley MILLS Yan DHANDA    15    Roman YAREMCHUK Martin BOYLE    16    Di'Shon BERNARD

Everton   League position: 18 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLWLLLXL Formation: 3-4-3

Statistics

Forest Green 2 Everton 3 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 24,356, Stadium: The New Lawn, Referee: Peter Walton 5½) Lyons 31¹, Shankland 9² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Assane Diao 22¹, Wood 28¹, Wood 10²         Shankland 4¹   4 11 7 13 6 7 5 4 9 8 14 12 2 1 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Jordan Obita ¶