A week is in a long time in football - but this could have been the biggest week in St Albans City's season.
With six minutes to go at Welling United one weekend earlier, Saints were trailing 1-0 and 12 points away from National League South safety.
Fast forward a week and not only had they fought back against the Wings to claim a 1-1 draw, they followed it up with a 1-0 win over Slough Town, achieved due to a stoppage time winner, and then a 1-0 success at Bath City.
Aidan Dausch got the goal six minutes into the second half and it means Saints are all of a sudden just four points behind fifth bottom.
First-team coach Joe Simpson
He said: "It was excellent, especially away from home and after Tuesday's game. There are a lot of dynamics.
"The boys have had to recover well to come here and put on the performance they did against a good side.
"We had to formulate a different arrangement for higher up the pitch but we are so pleased for them."
Simpson felt they had dominated the first half, even factoring in Zane Banton's 36th minute penalty being saved, and heralded their resilience at both ends of the field after the break.
There was praise too for the match winner, on loan from Coventry City.
Simpson said: "There was a reason we wanted him. He was a very sought after young man and has a lot of different qualities.
"He's very good one on one as you saw and he's a menace, caused them a lot of problems for 60 minutes.
"We have some great options up front but you could go through the whole time and look at the way they are performing at the moment.
"The amount of work they put in out of possession, they are a proper unit."
And with seven games unbeaten, the last two victories, the coach believes they are hitting form at just the right time, with a derby visit to Hemel Hempstead Town on Monday up next.
He said: "We've always been the same as a management group, you have to take each game as it comes.
"That can be frustrating because you can't enjoy the wins for too long as you have to go right onto the next one, which in this case is 48 hours time against an in-form Hemel side.
"But we are confident too, you have to be after a 93rd minute winner and then a brilliant result at Bath.
"We're in a good place. Every game is a challenge but every game is an opportunity.
"We're looking forward to it."
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