Sky Sports pundit Lee Hendrie believes Derby County will win their survival battle and is convinced head coach John Eustace will get them "going in the right direction."

Derby saw the gap to safety increase to seven points last night after Hull City secured a much-needed win over Plymouth Argyle.

With the Rams rock-bottom of the Championship, Derby are going to need to produce promotion form if they are to achieve an unlikely escape act.

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After Eustace was appointed as head coach last month to succeed Paul Warne, Derby are desperately hoping he can pull off a miracle.

And former Aston Villa midfielder Hendrie told FLW that he believes he will do it.

"It is a tough one to call with Derby," said Hendrie.

"Obviously, they are sitting bottom of the pile at the moment and things haven't gone to plan for Eustace just yet, coming into his fourth game against Blackburn. But, I think that might just be the turning point for Derby.

"It needs to start happening now. Since he has come in, three defeats and no goals. That was always my issue with Derby on the goal front, that it would be a problem.

"I think he will get them going in the right direction. It is early days, but it has got to be turned around very quickly because we are at the business end of the season, where they need to start winning games. What has made it worse is that the teams around them are just picking up results, which makes that gap that little bit bigger.

"It will take something to turn a corner with a football club, and Eustace has seen this with Blackburn.

"They have Plymouth coming up, which is going to be a huge game, and I do feel he can steer them away. It was a big thing for him to walk out of Blackburn to Derby, and they are a massive football club.

"My gut feeling is that they will just get out of that bottom three and finish just outside. They will survive and stay in the Championship."

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