Julen Lopetegui was quick to praise his West Ham United side's resilience after they battled to a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
The Irons bounced back from their opening day loss to Aston Villa in style, drawing the home side's sting before striking with a devastating double blow in the second period.
First, Tomáš Souček slammed home from close in to finish a move involving Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Jarrod Bowen, then Bowen himself was at the sharp end of a swift counter started by Maximilian Kilman's superb run from the back and pass that split the Eagles defence.
It added up to a memorable away day south of the River Thames, and Lopetegui said that it all began with his side's ability to soak up Palace's early pressure.
It feels good to win and we're happy to achieve these three points.
This stadium is always difficult to win in against a very good team. They have good players, a good coach and good ideas and fortunately we were able to overcome these difficulties.
We had to defend well to give us the platform to win.
We had to be together to overcome the bad moments. We did and were resilient to compete. We have to highlight this from the players in my opinion, that they are all together and this is one achievement from all of them, the team. The players on the pitch and the players on the bench, the players who didn't play, all of them are main actors.
We worked so hard for the result.
They had two clear chances in the first half [through Eze and Édouard], after they regained the ball in a very similar situation, and we tried to avoid that in the second half.
We had two or three situations, clear, to score in the first half too, so in my opinion it was a balanced first half and in the second we were able to overcome the difficulties.
The commitment and focus of the players had to be highlighted.
Always it's a good moment to be able to celebrate with the fans.
We worked for this win and the feeling is our energy, our petrol. This is why we are happy for the fans - we were unhappy that we were not able to offer them a victory in our last match, and the only thing we can do after is to work.
Despite losing, sometimes you have to keep a lot of things, and sometimes despite winning you have to improve other things. This is our work.
We are happy with every way we score.
Sometimes you have more spaces [on the pitch] and sometimes you don't. To make those moments, you have to overcome the other kind of moments in matches.
We are happy, I repeat, to overcome those moments.
Now we have to put the focus 100 per cent on Bournemouth [in the Carabao Cup second round at home on Wednesday evening].
We have another big challenge in front of us in a few days, another competition, another opportunity to play the players who have not played until now.
We want to be able to compete and win the next match.
