Wolves boss Mick McCarthy was a relieved man after his side ended a run of nine league games without a win with a 2-1 victory over QPR.
The visitors were trailing to Bobby Zamora's strike but were given a route back into the match when Djibril Cisse saw red for his reaction to a heavy challenge from Roger Johnson.
Second-half goals from Matt Jarvis and Kevin Doyle turned the game on its head before Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey produced a string of late saves to preserve his side's lead.
McCarthy said: "I've been under pressure for the last 20 games as I've only won two of them. I was under no more pressure from Wednesday night than I've been for the last 20 games.
On Cisse's red card, he added: "You know me and my sentiments towards football now. That for me wasn't a sending off when I played.
"But it is and the sending off is because you can't grab anybody by the face because it's not allowed any more.
"He was playing well so he's made a mistake and cost his team. And it did because the extra man paid dividends. We weren't having too much of the good luck so one man's mistake has given us the opportunity to win a game."
QPR manager Mark Hughes was keen to focus on the positives.
"I was really pleased with what we were producing. I thought the interplay between Bobby, Adel (Taarabt) and Djibril was excellent," he said.
"That bodes well for the future and that is a real positive from my point of view.
"Obviously we are disappointed because we have lost a key game, but I think moving forward we now have real options up front."
Hughes felt the dismissal of Cisse was pivotal to the outcome of the game, after they had dominated the opening stages.
"If we had 11 v 11 I feel very confident in saying we would have won the game quite comfortably," he added.
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