Rams in the play-off 'hunt' - Brereton Diaz

Striker Ben Brereton Diaz says Derby County are determined to continue to defy expectations in an effort to gatecrash the Championship play-off places.

The 26-year-old Chile forward scored his fifth goal of the season in Saturday's fightback victory against Blackburn Rovers that moved the Rams to within three points of the top six.

The win got Derby beyond the 50-point mark, a tally head coach John Eustace has long focused on rather than talk of the club's play-off prospects.

Beating Blackburn moved Derby up to eighth with 11 match remaining and put their promotion hopes back on track after back-to-back defeats.

"It's a great position to be in and we are hunting it [a play-offs spot] down," Brereton Diaz told BBC Radio Derby.

"We don't need to get carried away - we know how many games are left and we just want to see how many points we can get on the board and see what that gets us.

"I don't think anyone at the start of the season would have said we would be in and around it. We have proved a lot of people wrong and are chasing down the top six."