'The job is far from done despite brilliant work'

The important thing to note with four games to go, safety is currently in Derby County's hands.

And as they get ready for a season-defining Easter weekend, there is no bigger game than Luton this Friday for the Rams with many comparing it to the importance of last season's promotion-shaping win at home against Bolton Wanderers in League One.

Derby have shown a resurgence since the arrival of John Eustace, losing just one of their past seven, but three points is what they'll need on Friday lunchtime to put some daylight between themselves and the Hatters.

As ever, only three points is up for grabs but the chance to get one over on a team around them is an opportunity they can't afford to pass up.

This is an opportunity they have in three of the remaining four, firstly with Luton, then a trip to play-off-chasing West Brom before back-to-back relegation clashes against Hull City and Stoke City to round it off.

This Derby County team under Eustace have developed a steely structure that has been able to keep the club heading in the right direction but the job is far from done despite their brilliant work to turn this around.

As defender Kane Wilson said post-match at Fratton Park, to let all their hard work of promotion last season go to waste with an immediate relegation back to the third tier would be a damming outcome and the questions of how and why will begin.

Should they have appointed Eustace sooner? Did recruitment cost them? Who is responsible? I guess we'll find out...