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Roberto Martinez hails "strong" Lukaku and "outstanding" Deulofeu

Monday, October 05 2015 by SNTV
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    SOUNDBITE (English) Roberto Martinez, Everton manager (on recovering from conceding a goal):

    "The pleasing aspect is in the manner we've reacted, the way that we perform. Tactically, I was extremely, extremely proud of the players . Second half I thought we looked even stronger, every time we had the ball in their half we looked like creating something, we carried real danger and maybe that final decision, that little bit of composure would have given us the three points. But overall the performance has got too many positives to just highlight dropping two points at home."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Roberto Martinez, Everton manager (on goalscorer Romelu Lukaku):

    "I think the hold-up play from Rom (Lukaku) today was the strongest we've had in an Everton shirt and that allowed us then to ... I felt that he locked the three centre-halves, we could play around him. Steven Naismith got real good movement, Ross (Barkley) had a lot of time on the ball and everything came from having Rom with a very strong back to play and having a wide player like Aaron Lennon in the last part of the game and Gerard Deulofeu. I thought Gerard Deulofeu's performance was outstanding in the way that he gave everything that he had to do for the team, the executions of his actions was very unfortunate and on another day probably he could have been the real difference."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Rodgers:

    "Obviously very proud of the team and disappointed at the same time. I thought we were clearly the much better team in the first half. Couple of opportunities and then went in front, deserving and maybe could have been one or two more in front in the first half. Conceded a disappointing goal, a little bit of luck went against us."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Rodgers:

    "Second half, you'd expect Everton to come out with us being much the better side and then we have to show our defensive quality. I thought the players were very good in the second half defensively and a threat on the counter attack."

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