Everton have been handed potential back-to-back FA Cup home ties.
Monday’s fourth round draw saw the Blues pitted against Championship opposition for a second time this season in the form of Sheffield Wednesday.
Carlo Ancelotti’s side will welcome their Yorkshire counterparts on the weekend of January 23 and 24 with the victors rewarded with a home tie.
The Owls provided the opposition for Everton in their FA Cup triumph of 1966, in which Mike Trebilcock famously overturned a two-goal deficit at Wembley.
An extra time goal from Graeme Sharp two decades later saw Howard Kendall’s men book their place in the final at Wednesday’s expense.
Little separated the teams as did battle four times in this competition in the 1987/88 season before Everton, now led by Colin Harvey, eventually recorded a 5-0 rout.
Last season’s meeting between the sides in the Carabao Cup saw Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored twice against his home town club at Hillsborough.
If Everton see off Wednesday, they will take on the winners from the other fourth round tie between Wycombe Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs progressed to the latest round of the world’s most famous cup competition courtesy of a 5-0 demolition of Merseyside club Marine.
Ancelotti’s charges required extra time to edge past Rotherham United last weekend with a strike by Abdoulaye Doucoure proving the difference.