That’s how the Newcastle boss describes Francisco De Miguel Moreno, the fitness coach turned trusted assistant who took charge yesterday.

Moreno, known as Paco, delivered the three points thanks to skipper Jamaal Lascelles header which was the perfect pick-me-up for the Toon boss as he recovered at home from a hernia operation.

Never mind wired for sound, the Newcastle management team were wired up for winning as they stayed in tune to give their travelling fans their first Premier League away victory since December 2015.

Benitez talked by phone to assistant Antonio Gomez in the directors’ box. He sent messages to coach Mikel Antia on the touchline, who passed on the instructions to Moreno.

Between them they masterminded a performance of total commitment.

The only risk to their manager’s health would have been if he jumped too high to celebrate Lascelles’ 76th minute winner.

The captain revealed he’d been called by Benitez in the morning to “make sure the boys are on it”, and he led by example, saving a certain goal a few minutes before scoring with a fantastic goal line clearance from Tammy Abraham.

Between them Newcastle managed to completely overshadow the debut of Bayern Munich’s £30m wonder boy Renato Sanches at the start of his loan at Swansea.

They made sure the 20-year-old got a welcome to English football early on when he was hit by Isaac Hayden’s body check, a challenge that earned the Newcastle midfield man a yellow card.

And though the Portuguese Euro 2016 winner got back to his feet, he never quite came to terms with the pace and physicality of the game around him after that.

Played in a surprisingly deep role, Sanches kept things simple but by the time he’d gone off with 20 minutes left it had been a fairly average introduction from a player that had brought home fans to the Liberty Stadium with high hopes.

But then he wasn’t the only Swansea player who was average, at best.

And if it hadn’t been that goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was on top form, Newcastle might have won even more comfortably.

His best was a breathtaking dive to keep out Joselu’s point blank header from a Matt Ritchie cross.

It was 38 minutes before Swansea had a worthwhile effort when Abraham won the ball for Jordan Ayew to go clear and force Rob Elliot into a good save.

From the corner that followed Swansea should have scored. Mawson, always a threat at set pieces, out-jumped Newcastle’s defence but put his header narrowly wide.

Swans boss Paul Clement needed to shake things up at half-time, and quite sensibly moved Sanches into a more forward role.

That shifted the momentum and Elliot was called into action again to keep out Tom Carroll’s effort at his near post, before being thankful to Lascelles for a heroic goal line clearance after Abraham had danced round him with an empty net waiting.

It was the sort of inspiring effort you look for in a captain – and he led the way again with the towering header which put Newcastle in front.

If Benitez was meant to be resting in front of the telly you could imagine him leaping in the air to celebrate – and then not even regretting it when the pain kicked in.

Lascelles showed massive determination as he ran on to Ritchie’s outswinging corner, leaving Mawson stranded and unable to do anything to stop it.

The Toon fans who had made the 500 mile, 12-hour round trip to pack the stand behind Elliot’s goal celebrated wildly, and again as Leroy Fer headed Swansea’s best chance of an equaliser over the bar.

SWANSEA: (4-3-3): FABIANSKI 7; Naughton 6, Fernandez 6, Mawson 7, Olsson 6; Sanches 5 (Bony 68, 5), Clucas 6, Carroll 6 (Narsingh 86); Ayew 5, Abraham 5, Fer 5. Subs: Nordfeldt, Van der Hoorn, Routledge, Rangel, MesaNEXT UP: TOTTENHAM (a), Premier League, Saturday.

NEWCASTLE: (4-4-1-1): Elliot 6; Manquillo 6, LASCELLES 8, Clark 7, Gamez 6; Ritchie 7, Hayden 6 (Diame 68, 5), Merino 6, Murphy 6 (Atsu 58, 5); Perez 6; Joselu 6. Subs: Woodman, Shelvey, Gayle, Lejeune, Yedlin.NEXT UP: STOKE (h), Premier League, SaturdayReferee: Mick Jones 7

Your turn: Who was the last man to score a hat-trick in a Newcastle v Swansea game, a 3-0 FA Cup fourth round win for the Toon in 1995?

STAR MAN: Jamaal Lascelles – led by exampleSTAR SHOCKER: Tammy Abraham – unconvincing up front.Match rating: 3