Kenny Jackett: Quick start essential at Forest

Wolves return to action with a second successive East-West Midlands derby and the Molineux head coach is ordering his side to repeat the level of performance that saw them beat play-off rivals Derby 2-0 to sign off 13 days ago to close the two-point gap to the top six.

Jackett's side will finally regain a top-six spot if they win and sixth-placed Ipswich lost at home to Bournemouth in the televised late game and Brentford in seventh are beaten at Fulham.

"We have good momentum at the moment and we have to make sure we're not slow to start through having two weeks without playing," said Jackett.

"My job this week has been to really nail down that team and make sure every day they're focused, ready, know what their jobs are and back in the mentality of playing winning football so that by the time tomorrow comes around we're ready to go."

Despite averaging two points a game for the last 19 matches stretching back to the start of December, Wolves still haven't managed to climb back into the play-off zone.

But their eighth place in the table has enabled them to remain under the radar and it's a position Jackett is happy with as they prepare for the run-in over the final seven games.

"We hope that's the case," said the boss.

"There's external pressure, ie pressure from the media, because the Championship is a great race this season so there's a lot of focus.

"I'm pleased - there should be that type of focus on a club like this, but what we do is put on our own pressure internally.

"If you're looking at the last 10 games, we've averaged two points a game as we've picked up 20 points.

"It's a good run but we're going to need to keep that up; we can't think 'that's what we've done and that's enough'.

"We'd always prefer to be number one and fighting people off - we'd loved to have propelled ourselves into that top six.

"But we're eight points off first with seven games to go and that suggests we're in with a chance."