Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson was delighted with the attitude of their attacking players for victory over Aston Villa.
Tyrick Mitchell proved the matchwinner, but not before Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha had struck for Palace.
Hodgson assessed: "I thought we'd come into the game a bit better. In the second half that was the Crystal Palace that I've seen in the last four years - that never say die spirit. We accept we'll never roll teams over and we have to work hard to get a result and we did that today. The players deserve an awful amount of credit.
"They [Wilfried Zaha and Eberechi Eze] are quality players. They are players that could improve quite a few Premier League teams. We need them more than a Manchester City or Manchester United would need them. We saw Wilfried Zaha as he is today, he was chasing everything own, very dangerous going forward and scored a goal."
On Mitchell, he added: "He's introverted I guess, he's not one who makes his presence felt on the training field by screaming and shouting but he does his job very well. We've always known we have a good left-back in the club in Tyrick Mitchell. It was fitting in the changing room I mentioned him but he was speaking to the media, when he came back the players and staff burst into spontaneous applause and the smile on his face is something that will remain in my mind. It's a day he'll look back on in 15-20 years time and think was I really that good?"
