Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray felt that his game plan worked for against Wigan Athletic as the Sky Blues started the season with a 2-0 victory.
Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole: “Everybody knows we've got another 45 league games to go and I felt at the end of last season that we can promise so much and then let people down a little bit.
"But I was delighted that the game plan worked, that the players took it on board, which is always good for a coach.
“Sometimes you can almost have too much time before the first match of the season. By Tuesday we’d done everything we needed to do about Wigan and we didn’t want to bombard them with too much information.
“I saw Wigan against Blackburn and although they lost to three late goals they must have had 1,000 passes in that match. They can pass you off the pitch if they get going but we worked hard on that, managed the game really well.“Sometimes we let them pass the ball in front of us without every really threatening and sometimes we pressed them. –a lot of work went into it.
“And what was pleasing was that the goals came from what we’d been working on all week, nicking the ball and getting Adam Armstrong to run through and score.
“Today Adam had to play a little bit wider because the shape the opposition played but some games he’ll play right down the middle and terrorise teams as well.
“He didn’t look as if he was at all nervous. Sometimes a one-on-one is the hardest task for a striker because he thinks he should score but the goalie can guess right. Adam never looked as if he was going to miss that one – and his second goal was something different, a brilliant deft touch when it he’d put too much on it he could have hit the keeper in the midriff.
“The defence were very solid with the experience of Sam Ricketts and Reda Johnson very important while Vincelot helped break up the play. It’s a young team, with two 18-year-olds playing at the top end of the pitch, and it’s good to have that energy."