Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert was pleased with the spirit of his players in their stalemate with West Ham United.
Villa ended a six-match Barclays Premier League losing streak with a battling goalless draw at West Ham.
"It is a great point. To come to a ground where West Ham have been playing really well - they have beaten Manchester City and Liverpool not so long ago - to play as we did and be resolute I thought was first-class," said Lambert.
"We spoke all week that balls were going to be on top of us and we had to deal with it. I thought they coped fantastically well.
"In the second half I thought we were comfortable apart from the last five minutes or so when Andy Carroll comes on and there was (Diafra) Sakho up there and Carlton Cole - three big guys.
"We are not the biggest of teams, but they put their bodies on the line."
