West Bromwich Albion's first-day hat-trick hero Josh Maja says his religious faith helped him through an injury-hit first year at the Baggies.
Maja put behind a worrying summer of negativity at the financially-challenged Championship club to score all three Albion goals as they came from behind to beat Queens Park Rangers 3-1 in Shepherd's Bush.
Maja had a badly disrupted first season with Albion, in which he scored just once, limited to just one start in 12 appearances by two separate injuries.
But his three strikes at Loftus Road - two headers and a well-taken instinctive hat-trick goal - made him the first Baggies player to hit an opening-day treble in 101 years.