Everton manager David Moyes says Liverpool will be favourites for the FA Cup semi-final when the derby rivals meet at Wembley next month.

The Toffees reached the last four with a sixth round replay win at Sunderland.

But Everton have already lost twice to Liverpool in the Premier League including an emphatic 3-0 defeat at Anfield earlier this month.

“Liverpool will be favourites. They have beaten us twice this year, haven’t they?” said Moyes.

Moyes (pictured), who this month celebrated 10 years in charge at Goodison Park, has never won a trophy with the club.

He lost the FA Cup final to Chelsea three years ago but pointed out that the Toffees have a rich history of success.

“I think anybody would think going to a semi-final would be an achievement, whether you have been there one year or 10 years,” he said.

“But the thing about Everton is they have got a history of being in finals, semi-finals, winning things.

“I have not been in as many as I would like to be, but I actually think there are mitigating circumstances for that in a way.

“But Everton as a football club are used to it, it’s been there many times before and this isn’t a strange place for them.”

Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill admitted that Everton deserved their victory at the Stadium of Light.

“Everton were better than us. They deserved to win the game. We didn’t perform well enough – we didn’t perform at all, and that’s really disappointing,” he said.

“There was high expectation, of course, having done so well to get here, to have forced the replay, to have come back here to the Stadium of Light where, outside of Arsenal, who got a couple of late goals on us, we have done pretty well.”

Meanwhile in the Champions League, Salomon Kalou scored a late winner as Chelsea put one foot in the Champions League semi-finals after a first-leg quarter-final victory in Lisbon.

Forward Kalou had earlier wasted a fine chance, but made no mistake to side-foot home a cross from the impressive Fernando Torres.

Chelsea were full value for the victory, with Juan Mata denied by a post when the game was goalless.

David Luiz made a goal-line clearance to deny Benfica’s Oscar Cardozo.

Chelsea caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo will know the job is only half done and will not be looking beyond the second leg at Stamford Bridge on 4 April.

“When Luiz gets it right, he really does have the raw material to be one of the best around. I’ve stuck by Torres all the way through. I still think he is a fantastic player. The fact that others cannot see the positions he runs into, that has been the problem.”

But the Londoners will only have themselves to blame if they do not reach the semi-finals after a performance full of spirit, guts and determination in Portugal.