Roberto Martínez is confident Bryan Oviedo has recovered psychologically as well as physically from a double leg fracture as the Costa Rica international prepares to make his first Everton appearance in eight months.

Oviedo will feature in Everton’s Capital One Cup visit to Swansea City on Tuesday, having been sidelined since January by the injury he sustained in an FA Cup tie at Stevenage. The 24-year-old was in fine form before the fracture that forced him to miss Costa Rica’s outstanding run to the World Cup quarter-finals. He led Everton to their first win at Manchester United for 21 years in December and Martínez sees no reason why the versatile player cannot recapture that influence.

The former Copenhagen left-back has played in three behind closed doors fixtures but Swansea will provide the first competitive test of Oviedo’s psychological recovery. Martínez, who has not decided whether Oviedo will start at the Liberty Stadium, said: “From a medical point of view and a football point of view, he’s fully fit, which is fantastic news. Mentally he is good, too.

“He is such a structured boy in terms of having targets. He wanted to be fit for the World Cup, even though that was not realistic really after that injury, then he wanted to be back for the start of the season. He’s well ahead of what the medical team told us initially.

“I don’t think there’s any issue about not being psychologically ready. It’s the opposite. He’s ready, he’s been desperate to be on the pitch and to have him in the squad for the first time since Stevenage is quite a significant moment. He has been a big miss because his level of performance at the time of the injury was as good as he had been since he arrived at Everton.”

In contrast to the Europa League, Martínez will make changes for the cup tie, with Tony Hibbert likely to play for the first time since February. “Making changes doesn’t mean that you haven’t got intent,” said the Everton manager, who also has the striker Arouna Koné available after a long-term knee injury. “We need to be able to cope with the Capital One Cup with the whole squad of 25 players.”

Despite the opportunity to rotate, and having played Joel Robles in cup competitions last season, Martínez is considering keeping Tim Howard in goal in an attempt to help the USA international get over to his error-strewn display against Crystal Palace on Sunday.