Fulham manager Marco Silva has warned Leeds United of his side's 'character and personality' ahead of their Premier League clash at Craven Cottage next weekend.
Goals from Harrison Reed, Harry Wilson and Whites loanee Dan James saw the Cottagers cement their spot in the top half of the table against a tough Everton side.
"Clearly we were the best team on the pitch and we deserved the three points, no doubt," Silva said in his post-match press conference.
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"We started the game really well, I think until the moment Everton equalised we were clearly the best team there, we controlled the game really well.
"We expected a little bit of the high pressure that Everton was doing the last few games at home. They have been really strong, apart from the game against Villa where they lost, they have been achieving good results and always creating a lot of problems for the opposition side with the high pressure every time.
"We knew that is something that we like to do as well, building from the back, and I think we did really well from the first minute of the game. We showed the personality and the character to play in our way, to not change many things."
The Fulham boss also highlighted James' positive involvement, something that can't be said for a lot of his time down south this season.
James has only found two goals and an assist in 16 appearances for Fulham, with two of those coming against the Toffees over the weekend.
"I did it because I was not happy with our last two performances, the way we weren’t really a threat in our attack line," Silva continued.
"We didn't create enough, we were not aggressive enough in our attack line. Because of that, I didn't just change James, Harry Wilson [came in] on the right hand side as well, because we wanted to have a little bit more pace in behind, some different things. And we had plenty of that.
"We did our job, to analyse the game and to analyse Everton, we expected them to come to press really high every time, and we didn’t want to give that number nine reference for them to go and squeeze him every time.
"We went in a different way and it worked really well, and the main reason is because the players understood and, after, they did it on the pitch."
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