 Welcome to ToffeeTV, this is the Everton News Daily. Everton's appeal over Alan's red card against Newcastle United has been tamed down. Everton had lodged two appeals, one to get the ban overturned completely and one to get it reduced to one game ban. Obviously, Alan was sent off against Newcastle United. It was initially a yellow card. Then it was upgraded to a red card after the referee was advised to look at the monitor. Everton had put out a statement that says Alan's three match suspension has been upheld after an independent Reg Lee commission rejected two appeals from Everton over the midfields dismissal against Newcastle United on Thursday. Alan was initially booked for the 83rd minute challenge on Newcastle's Alan St. Maxman during Everton's 1-0 win following a VAR check. The Brazilian was given a red card for series foul play. Everton's request to overturn that decision was rejected on Friday by the commission as was a second appeal to downgrade the ban for excessive punishment. The decision means Alan will miss Sunday's FA Cup quarterfinal against Crystal Palace and next month's Premier League trips to West Ham United and Burnley. So really disappointing because as far as I'm concerned it's not a red card. It is one of those ones where yes, you know exactly what he's doing but for me it's not a red card and I know people maybe think that's biased but I have seen much worse. John Joe Chelvies against Everton was much worse as far as I'm concerned and yeah it wasn't it wasn't given so there you go. We've got to live with the punishment. He's going to miss obviously those three games. The one against Burnley will be massive and the fact that he's not playing. It does leave us sending for the cup tie as well with no Donny van de Beek. It's going to leave us in a bit of a sticky situation. It looks like we've only got really Decore and Gomez as our midfielders but hey we'll just have to get on with it. You know the way to look at it I suppose is that sending off galvanised. They haven't played last night and led them on to the three points. So yeah there you go. Disappointing but it is what it is. We've been out off by VAR and referees all season so this decision is no real shock. Anyway for the rest of today's news let's go over to Bas. Frank Lampard has given his pre-match press conference ahead of Everton's trip to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday which kicks off at 12.30. He confirmed there'd be no Jordan Pickford on Sunday. Pickford missed Everton's 1-0 win over Newcastle yesterday with an illness. Won't be back in time for the FA Cup game which means ask me if Begavits will start again for the Blues. Had a good game last night Begavits. It was delighted with how the crowd reacted. These praise the Evertonians today but he put in a good shift. He also obviously said we were going to be without Delhi. We know that Donny van de Beek who is ill but also Cup Tide. He's not going to be there. El Ghazi also so you know obviously haven't met quite a few players there and the sending off of Alan makes it even more complicated. He's now 7-3 match-ban but we'll come on to that in a minute. But will have John Joe Kenny back in the squad obviously having completed his 1-match suspension. Lampard talked about the win yesterday said obviously it was a great night. Spoke of Irish broken hand talked about you know how can we build on that victory which is you know important. We've had positive results before and haven't built on them and it's a case now. Can Everton actually build on what they achieved last night. It was three points. It was a big three points but that's all it was and it's about being able to build on these performances but it was a great result and a massively important three points. But now we have the opportunity to go to Crystal Palace and get through to the semi-final at Wembley. So let's see how we get on. Antony Gordon has been called up to the England under 21 side following his excellent performances for Everton. He was excellent again in the 1-0 win over Newcastle. There have been some talk that the young Everton forward would be called up to the full side. Garas Elke had seen him a couple of times but he's in. Lee Carsey's under 21 squad and he just needs to keep playing the way he is and then I'm sure he'll get the opportunity to be part of a full squad even if it's just for the experience but good luck to Antony in that. And that is it for the news daily. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't. Scan the QR code to join Peter and I'll simply click the link in the description. See you later.