 Everton boss Moyes was proud of his players
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Everton boss David Moyes lavished praise on his players after they won an FA Cup fourth round replay against Liverpool after extra time.
Teenager Dan Gosling scored the winner two minutes from the end to set up a fifth round home tie with Aston Villa.
Moyes said: "It was a deserved win. It is Everton's night tonight and we will do it with a lot of class and dignity.
"It's obviously great for young Dan to get the winner, but they are all great lads and I'm delighted for them."
He paid tribute to teenage duo Gosling and 17-year-old Jack Rodwell, who also excelled after coming on as a substitute.
"I was delighted with the two youngsters, Gosling and Rodwell, to come on in such an important cup tie and play as well as that," said Moyes.
"But it says, too, a lot about the other players. We have had so many injuries and we picked up more during the match, it meant we were looking around to see what we could change.
"So it was the young boys who had to come on and I did not have any worries putting the two lads on. They had the energy we needed, and it was not a worry for me to put them on.
"Gosling is a really good lad, he wants to learn and is a good trainer. He is a well-mannered boy who wants to improve and hopefully we can keep developing him."
Moyes reserved special praise for central defenders Phil Jagielka and Joleon Lescott, saying: "You would be hard pushed to see a better performance from two central defenders.
"I think Phil Jagielka looks unbeatable at the moment. There were moments in the game where I nearly thought a great player like Fernando Torres had said 'I just can't get past him. He's just too strong and too quick.'"
Moyes added: "We haven't won the cup tonight, although it feels a bit like it in there. There was a lot said about how Liverpool are much better than us and what they were going to do to us but it is Everton's night."
Liverpool's beaten boss Rafael Benitez revealed captain Steven Gerrard will have a scan on Thursday to determine the extent of the hamstring injury that forced him off.
He said: "We do not really know yet. Steven was tired, and he gets injured.
"He was tired, too, at Wigan but when I took him off there everyone was saying he had to play every single minute of every match. Now you have seen the consequences.
"He asked to be taken off, you could see at Wigan he was struggling and the same thing happened here."
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