Ralf Rangnick reserved special praise for Manchester United’s home support after Marcus Rashford scored a last gasp winner vs West Ham.
The Red Devils looked destined to be settling for a point before Rashford rekindled memories of ‘Fergie Time’ with a dramatic late goal.
United’s interim boss threw on attacking options in the second half, with Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial and Rashford all coming off the bench.
And it was that trio that linked up to devastating effect after Martial found Cavani, who in turn crossed for the oncoming Rashford.
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It’s a result which greatly boosts United’s hopes of a top-four finish, leapfrogging the Hammers to move into the Champions League places.
Speaking after the win, Rangnick sent a message to the Old Trafford faithful for helping push them on to a vital winner.
"The red army's support during the game was amazing. I can only say thank you to all the fans,” he told BBC Match of the Day.
"It's always good but today was massive and they were also aware of how important this game was. They pushed us through the whole game.
"The atmosphere (in the dressing room) is amazing. Quite rightly the boys were celebrating. They know what a massive win this was.
"Those are the best kind of wins when the other team has no time to come back. We are extremely happy with the performance and the level of physicality we played with, bearing in mind we played three days ago at Brentford.”
Despite the stoppage time winner, Rangnick suggested his players had got a little careless in their pursuit of a goal, wishing they could have chosen the right option more often.
“I think in the end we deserved to win,” he added. “It takes patience to play West Ham. A few moments at the end I wished we would have passed the ball instead of shooting from wherever.
"I am very pleased the three subs prepared the goal and scored the goal. All were involved. That makes it even more important.
“I would love to have those two points from Villa Park, but with 17 points now we are pleased."
Meanwhile, it was another miserable afternoon for former Man United boss David Moyes, who lamented what he saw as an avoidable late sucker-punch.
"It's not easy when you lose a goal in the last second,” the West Ham boss said. "It was certainly avoidable. We made a couple of poor decisions in the build-up to it.
"A draw would have been a good result as we hadn't played well enough to score goals, but we certainly kept Man Utd out enough to get the draw.
"I want to win. I’m not coming to these teams to let them beat me. I’m coming to challenge them.
“I can’t fault the players for their effort. But we just lacked little bits and did not do the correct things, how to see games out and we didn’t do that in the last minute.”
