West Ham have not picked up too many good habits this season, and have plenty of bad ones that still need kicking if they are to remain a Premier League side into next term.
But if there is one common thread to be admired among a bundle of frayed, knotty ones it is the way in which the Hammers have delivered in the games of greatest peril, those like meetings with Nottingham Forest and Everton here since Christmas, when defeat might well have signalled the end of the road for David Moyes.
