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LEIGHTON BAINES hailed returning captain Phil Neville after the skipper's goal gave the Blues a tense 2-1 win over West Brom in the Carling Cup. And the left-back admits sheer desperation motivated Everton to cling on for the extra-time win. The England defender said the spirit in the Blues dressing room after their come-back in the third round tie at Goodison last night was defiance and hunger to go all the way to Wembley.. Wembley. Everton equalised against Roy Hodgson's men in the 88th minute courtesy of Marouane Fellaini, before clinching their progress in injury time thanks to Phil Neville's goal. And Baines said the Blues were determined not to be dumped out. He said: "We are desperate to achieve something, basically.
"There's no point pretending ot herwise - we want to win it and we were desperate to stay in it. "We feel we're capable and we fought and worked for it, and hopefully we'll get the fruits of that later on in the competition. There will still be top sides in it but you can see how seriously we take it and want to win it so badly. "Ideally you'd do it in the 90 but we're just happy to be in the draw for the next round. It's important to us this cup run, it means a lot to us. "You could see that towards the end of the game we fought hard to get the equaliser and we were still pushing towards the end to win the game. It's nice to be in the hat." Baines was full of praise for skipper Neville who was restored to the side as David Moyes rang the changes from Saturday's Premier League win over Wigan.See the full content of this document
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