West Ham boss David Moyes was happy for the goals to flow after their 4-0 rout of Nottingham Forest.
A brace from Danny Ings on his full debut in Claret and Blue was added to by Declan Rice and Michail Antonio to give the vast majority of the 62,469 inside London Stadium plenty to cheer.
"It was a little bit of relief in my reaction [after the second goal] but we were worthy of the result," said Moyes.
"We played well enough in the first half but couldn't get a goal and I thought 'here we go again'.
"But we stuck at it, we didn't say too much to the players [at half-time as] we just wanted them to keep doing what they were doing.
"We didn't start the opening five minutes or so of the second half well but I thought we grew into it and obviously got the goals in the end.
"If it had gone to them, you can imagine how desperate we would have felt and it wouldn't have been correct if that was the case.
"But the fact of the matter was it could have, because it has happened to us in quite a few games. Today we got the first goal, which gave us a real chance and I thought once we got the second, the freedom and the look to the players was something we hadn't seen for a while but we had seen six months or a year ago.
"Once we got the second goal it looked a lot easier, that's for sure.
"I felt we started to pass it better, we started to get the space to receive the ball and turn.
"I thought the subs came on and helped us today too Pablo [Fornals], Manu [Lanzini] and then Micky [Antonio] got a goal when he came on and that's what we need.
"Let's be fair, in lots of the games this season we've really struggled to score and for 45 minutes it looked that way as well, but I actually thought we played quite well in the first half."