Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu highlighted the Hatters squad’s desire to mount a post-Christmas push towards the play-off spots after helping spark another come-from-behind home win against Derby County.

The Hatters trailed to a visitors’ goal but, just as they have previously this season against Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City, our boys found a way to get back into it and take all three points with two late strikes.

On as a second-half substitute in his first outing of December, Mpanzu hit the 88th-minute volley which deflected off team-mate Tom Holmes’ backside for the leveller, before Carlton Morris hit an injury-time winner, also diverted via a Rams defender.

“I’m feeling good,” said the 30-year-old. “It was nice to get back out on the pitch and help the boys get a win. Three points is what we needed.

“We know we’ve been good at home, so that is going to put us in good stead hopefully over the Christmas period, and we can climb the table as quickly as possible.

“We know we are strong at home, so getting points at home is really important. Our away form hasn’t been great, so we’ve got to try and rectify that with the games at Bristol and Swansea.

“Hopefully we can put ourselves in a good position to go ahead and get points away from home, because that’s going to also help us go and make our goal at the end of the season, which is promotion or if not, go through the play-offs. That’s still our aim this season and hopefully we can still achieve that.”

Most people in the ground would have credited the DR Congo midfielder with the goal, which would have been his first since his brace against Blackpool at Easter of our promotion winning campaign, but officially it went down as Holmes’ first goal for the club since signing from Reading.

“I think it hit someone – I think it hit Holmesy, and he’s been credited with the goal, but listen, everyone is saying it’s his goal, so I’ll let him have it.

“But edge of the box, strike, if it goes in how it goes in, it gets us back in the game and thankfully Carlton – think that was going wide, his one – but it ended up in the goal, so yeah, 2-1 win, it’s a good result for everyone.”

He added: "It’s been a tough season for everyone, I think we were expected to do a lot better than what we are right now, than what the table says.

“We’ll take any goal right now and thankfully the deflections went in, so we’ll take the three points as they come.”