Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce says the key to the Championship side's impressive revival since he took over on 12 October has been getting the players he inherited to play as a team.
Villa's six-match unbeaten league run since Bruce took over is at a level below the top flight.
But it is the longest sequence without a league defeat since Martin O'Neill's final season in charge in 2009-10.
"You can see the fans are now going home delighted," Bruce told BBC WM.
"I've heard that phrase about playing as a team being used. Whatever's been going on for the last 18 months, two years or whatever it is, we've had to turn it round.