HEAD coach Steve McClaren has described breaking the 70-point barrier, as Derby County did at Blackpool on Tuesday, as a huge step.
Victory at Bloomfield Road lifted the Rams to 72 points and third place in the Championship.
Tomorrow, they will look to add to their tally when Huddersfield Town visit the iPro Stadium.
"To get over 70 points is massive and we just need to keep it going," said McClaren.
"There is always another barrier – the next one is 80.
"We knew Tuesday at Blackpool would be a high-pressure game. We keep challenging the players and testing them and they keep doing it.
"We have got to keep performing, keep doing what we have done all season and we will be OK."
Five games remain and a place in the play-offs, which has looked likely for weeks now, can be cemented this weekend.
Brighton & Hove Albion, Ipswich Town and Bournemouth are all looking to muscle their way into the top six. They are on 61 points – 11 adrift of Derby, who also boast a superior goal difference.
Brighton and Ipswich face home games against Charlton Athletic and Doncaster Rovers, while Bournemouth travel to take on Yeovil Town.
Derby are 1/66-on with the bookmakers to finish in the play-offs. Queens Park Rangers are 1/50, Wigan Athletic 1/8 and Reading 5/4.
The odds are of no interest to McClaren.
"The key is to remain focused and expect the season to go on and not to relax," he said. "Once you relax, you are dead in the water.
"You have got to keep momentum going game-by-game. Once teams lose focus, it is very difficult to get it back."
McClaren says it would be fitting for Derby to "get over the line" at home, where they have won their last two games 5-0 and 3-0 against Nottingham Forest and Charlton.
But McClaren added: "That would be great but I don't care where we do it as long as we know the season will be extended."
Derby's flat performance in the defeat at Middlesbrough last Saturday disappointed McClaren, so he was delighted with the response to beat Blackpool.
"We didn't make things happen against Middlesbrough," he said. "In the Blackpool game, we made things happen and we are better, a good team, when we go out there on the front foot and make things happen.
"The first 20 minutes have been vital in the last three wins." We always say you don't win the game in that time but it goes a long way to dictating what is going to happen.
"We are a front-foot team, we just have to play with a bit of freedom and continue doing what we have been doing. Why stop? Why change after 41 games?"
Jamie Ward (hamstring) and Jeff Hendrick (hip) trained yesterday. Both are expected to return to Derby's squad to face Huddersfield.
BETTING: TO REACH THE PLAY-OFFS (bet365.com)
Derby 1/66, QPR 1/50, Wigan 1/8, Reading 5/4, Brighton 5/2, Bournemouth 7/2, Ipswich 6/1,
Nottingham Forest 10/1.
