Manuel Pellegrini was thrilled that his Manchester City could produce a win over Leicester City on Wednesday night.
Goals from David Silva and James Milner either side of the break gave City a 2-0 triumph at the Etihad Stadium to end a run of two-straight defeats at the hands of Barcelona and Liverpool.
The three points kept the reigning premiers within five of league leaders Chelsea and the magnitude of the result, despite it being over the bottom side, was not lost on Pellegrini.
"It was a very important win because it was a difficult week after two bad results against Liverpool and Barcelona," he told Sky Sports News.
"Of course to play here at home the most important thing is to win and we now have three points more. It was a good game that we tried to dominate from the beginning. Maybe we scored the second goal too late, but the team was a little bit nervous with the score just 1-0.
"It was very important to score [the first goal just before half-time] as we were dominating, but we did not have any clear chances to score and they also had nine or 10 players behind the ball, so it was difficult to create space, and that is why it was so important to score before half-time for the team."
