Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was delighted with victory at Manchester City.
Mark Hughes' men were beaten by Aston Villa in their opener and then held to a draw by 10-man Hull but the prize of such a major scalp should fuel their confidence.
Begovic said: "It is very pleasing. It could not have gone any better. We came with a good game-plan and executed it to perfection.
"When you put that kind of work in you are going to get some rewards. We took our chance and got the three points, which is what we needed.
"Obviously we would have liked to have to have had a few more points at this stage, but we kept believing, we stayed confident.
"We knew the quality we had in the team and that it would come through at some point.
"Hopefully we can push on now and string a few good results together and push ourselves up the table."
