Season › 2013-14 › News ''We made changes as they were needed'' , EvertonFC.com , 24 September, 0comments | Jump to most recent After a good first half against Fulham, Roberto Martinez justified the team changes and bemoaned a lack of luck but was guilty of watching somewhat transfixed as Fulham came out after the break and regained the momentum to score two rather soft-looking goals that cut short another League Cup campaign prematurely for Everton. “One of the things it's fair to say is that we never had a little bit of luck today,” claimed the boss. “The first-half was outstanding, very, very dominant but the only criticism is that we didn't take more chances. I felt we created enough chances to win the game and that's why it's so disappointing not to get through. "It was one-way traffic in the last ten minutes and it was very pleasing, the manner that we adapted, the way we changed the shape a little bit and the personnel,” he said. “We made changes as they were needed and we looked like a really strong side, clearly we knew what we were doing and that's credit to the players.” Martinez made eight changes to the team that had started at West Ham at the weekend and he said this of the players who came in. “Some of the players looked really sharp and will benefit from it. They need to be playing games to be able to help the team. Darron Gibson has been a long time away injured so it was really important that he had some playing time. John Stones performed really really well and Gerard Deulofeu showed flashes of the outstanding talent that he has. “Throughout the team it was a performance from a group of players who are ready to help the team to achieve our aims. It's not one of those disappointing days where we didn't do ourselves justice. I thought we performed extremely well and obviously the scoreline doesn't reflect the full story but we should take the chances that we created.” Quotes or other material sourced from EvertonFC.com About these ads