Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce has attributed January investment and wins over Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal as the catalyst for the club's Premier League survival.
Allardyce, who replaced Alan Pardew at the helm in December, was given a large purse to spend in the January transfer window.
The former England boss spent €40.7m on Jeffrey Schlupp, Luka Milivojevic, Mamadou Sakho and Patrick van Aanholt to help bolster his defense.
March and April turned out to be season changing for the Eagles. In 8 matches, Palace won 6 out 8 – including wins at Anfield and Stamford Bridge and a 3-0 thrashing of the Gunners – and conceded only 4 goals along the way.
"We have all worked extremely hard, from the owners' support throughout the whole football club. My job was to lift everyone on the pitch and behind the scenes and get them working in the right direction. With the investment in January, very, very, very good performances came and that is why we stayed in the Premier League.
"Beating Chelsea away, Arsenal at home and Liverpool away in the space of a few days, had we not got [those wins] we would have been relegated. They were the big ones."