Demarai Gray effort enough as Everton edge Carabao Cup win at Fleetwood

Demarai Gray opened the scoring for Everton (Barrington Coombs/PA)

Everton scraped through to the third round of the Carabao Cup with a tough 1-0 victory at League One side Fleetwood.

A first-half goal from Demarai Gray, who was a late addition to the Everton starting line-up after Tom Davies was injured in the warm-up, gave Frank Lampard’s side a victory they had to work hard for.