Stoke City defender Ashley Phillips says the "improving" Potters are starting to really "feel like a team" under new boss Narcis Pelach.
The Potters won on Saturday against Derby County for only the second time since Pelach took charge in September.
Stoke remain frustratingly close to the bottom of the Championship table in their almost perennial 16th place, but teenage on-loan Tottenham Hotspur centre-back Phillips is confident that good times lie ahead.
"It was a big three points," Phillips told BBC Radio Stoke. "And it's been coming for a while.
"Every game we're improving.