Niko Kranjcar is convinced Portsmouth are again showing the steel they lost earlier this season.

"That Stoke performance was very important," said the Croatia midfielder. "We battled hard and hopefully we can go on towards the end of the season and be safe.

"We need to start doing that at home and only recently we lost in the last minute to Liverpool.

"The future matters and the present matters. Now I think we have to forget about the past and what happened and look forward to the remainder of the season.

"Hopefully we can start picking up the results because things are encouraging at the moment and the team is doing well. We've now got to push on and build on that."