PAUL ISSUES PROMOTION WARNE-ING!

PAUL Warne is takin ing nothing granted, for despite another shift in Derby's favour in the race for automatic promotion.

- Steve White

A routine home win over Leyton Orient coupled with Bolton's draw with Portsmouth means Derby have a four-point lead in second place, although the Lancashire club have a game in hand.

It was vital Derby took maximum points and in front of another 30,000plus crowd, got off to the best of starts when Kane Wilson struck after ten minutes. That lead was doubled eight minutes later when Sonny Bradley headed in, with Bradley adding gloss to the scoreline late on.

Warne said: "The lads have done well, scored from three set-pieces and we probably could have scored from open play, but it's just about winning, so I'm happy.

"It's been a good day, but all it does is give us another opportunity. With two games left, it's in our hands again, but we've got to try and back it up with two more wins to give us a real chance to go up.