The Toffees boss, however, urged fans to keep the win in perspective.

Moyes said: “We haven’t won the cup just yet. It was a great result and everyone was really desperate for it. But let’s not think the cup is already here, there is a very, very long way to go yet.

“We are in the fifth round, but the draw has not been kind to us. First we had to beat Liverpool and now we have Aston Villa next.”

Moyes was proud of his team but had special praise for match-winner Gosling.

He said: “I’m proud of them, but there is more to come. I enjoyed that one, but we move on now.

“I was delighted with the two youngsters, Gosling and (Jack) Rodwell, to come on in such an important cup tie and play as well as that.

“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.”

Liverpool lost skipper Steven Gerrard early in the game with a hamstring injury.

He will not play at Portsmouth on Saturday, and is almost certainly out of England’s friendly next Wednesday against Spain in Seville.

Boss Rafael Benitez said: “Steven Gerrard will have a scan today to see the extent of the injury, 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.”

Benitez also made a sarcastic reference to the fact England made Gerrard travel to London to assess a previous injury before accepting he was injured earlier this season.

He continued: “Maybe he will have go down to London again like last time for a scan to prove he is injured.”

Liverpool were struggling from the moment Lucas was sent off in the second half of normal time.

Benitez said: “We are really disappointed, to play for a long time with 10 men and to concede like that from a deflection at the end, you have to be disappointed.

“The turning point of the game was the second yellow card for Lucas, I was not happy, but I do not want to say anything about the referee.”