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Kevin Mirallas believes keeping hold of Romelu Lukau is a step in the right direction for Everton - as he underlined the dressing room belief in Ronald Koeman.

The Belgian winger began the Blues revival at the Hawthorns on Saturday with an equalising goal before the break that allowed the visitors to go on and take all three points in the second half with a 2-1 win .

Mirallas, 28, was thrilled with his contribution but even more delighted that international team-mate Lukaku has decided his future remains at Goodison for another year.

He said: "The club want to try and sign good players but try to keep their best too. I hope he (Lukaku) signs a new contract now and stays with the team because he's an important player.

"Romelu is really a striker and with Geri on right, me on the left and Ross (Barkley) at number 10 we had creativity and can create opportunities."

Mirallas said he was mightily impressed by the decisive thinking from Koeman that rescued Everton from their poor opening against the Baggies.

"It was a difficult start," said the forward. "We played the same tactics as last week but the coach has seen directly it wasn't good and changed. After that we payed well, got in good positions and made chances to score.

"He's good because he saw directly the team had problems and changed it. He had the solution to win the game.

"When you're a player you see that and you're happy because he had the solution to win the game.

"We didn't panic."

The forward, who was challenged by Koeman after the opening day draw with Tottenham about his work-rate , said he feels the Blues have a strong attacking threat - further emboldened when Lukaku is on the pitch.

He said: "When I saw the tactics against West Brom I knew they're the home team and have strong set pieces but I though I'd get chances.

"The players have quality. For my goal it was a lot of quick movement; Gareth Barry , Ross, me and I score. It's good.

"For the first 30 mins Gerard had a lot of space but its difficult because their defender was very strong. The changed worked."