West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis made ten changes to his Baggies line-up for the 3-0 Capital One Cup defeat to Norwich City at Carrow Road.

The Albion manager refused to blame his team selection for the result and instead claimed that the scoreline wasn't a fair reflection on their performance.

"Three-nil was a bit harsh, especially in the second half," he said. "When it was 1-0 we had some very good opportunities.

"(James) McClean, he was trying to get it on his left foot, he could have stepped round the goalkeeper and touched it in. Then they get the same situation down their end, Lafferty scores and it's the end of the game. I don't think it was a reflective score.

"You make a decision whether to play players who haven't played and those players have worked as hard as those in the first team - sorry, the team that played at Aston Villa on Saturday.

"Bringing them here, they were very, very bubbly and with a little bit of luck it might have been a different scoreline. They have been away from that tempo for a while and it took a while to get going.

"No, (it didn't backfire) not at all. (Norwich) left seven or eight out so they did the same.

"They want to play games so it was their opportunity to play. McClean, we were disappointed he's not stuck a couple away but he brought us energy and life when he came on."