Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil believes his team were meant to be the ones fighting for their lives on the last day of the season.
The Cherries coach is one of the most impressive stories of this Premier League season.
Taking over when Scott Parker was sacked shortly after a 9-0 loss to Liverpool, O'Neil slowly turned around the club and helped them avoid the drop.
As they prepare to take on Everton, who do need a result to survive, he stated to reporters: "I think everyone felt that the Everton game would probably be pivotal for both of us. Definitely us, maybe not Everton, so the fact that it isn't for us shows what a good achievement it was from the players.
"One thing to stay up, another thing to stay up with four games to spare. So very impressive, from a group without quite a lot of people, and you saw again, they'll run, they'll work, that they do whatever's asked of them.
"(An) incredible group. It's obviously nice that we get to come in, enjoy training, start to switch focus a little bit, discussions around next season and sort of things taking place with the recruitment team, now we know what league we're going to be in.
"So, being successful as early as we did and getting the job done means that we can start to plan."