Aston Villa boss Unai Emery was delighted with the passion they showed for victory over Zrinjski Mostar.
John McGinn's late goal earned the 1-0 Europa Conference League win.
Emery said, Today this victory is with heart.
Of course, we needed to do some things different tactically and to push in the second half and take better positions on the pitch to attack them.
But the emotions, with the supporters and the great atmosphere we created, was amazing. Sometimes we needed to create our strong structure in our minds and in our mentality.
It was amazing."
He also said: The first half, I didn't feel good. The second half, I was feeling better. And at the end, if we didn't win, I was thinking that is the way we need to create here.
We pushed, we were controlling the game in our attacking third, getting in their box a lot and we didn't concede chances to them in the second half.
The idea that we were doing and building in the second half was like I want. At the end, we won.
We finished the match with the idea that it was going to be difficult, with the idea that each match is going to be difficult and that we have to adapt our idea because it's not going to be easy, like tonight."