Wolves defender Stephen Ward expects to face a motivated West Bromwich Albion this weekend.
Despite West Brom's position of safety, Ward is under no illusions about the difficulty of Sunday's task.
He said: "I think it's different if you're playing a team that's safe and might have one eye on the summer, but when it's your local rivals they won't want to lose to us.
"They'll probably want to inflict a bit of pain on our fans and will be taking it just as seriously as we will. They'll want to knock us out of the league."
Two of Wolves' three remaining matches are at Molineux and Ward believes that could be a key factor in securing their survival.
"If you look at our home form it's been as good as anyone in the bottom half of the table," he said.
"If we can continue that for the next couple of weeks and take something from our home games, then there's no reason why we won't pick up enough points.
"This is probably the biggest derby for a while, and it's probably bigger for us than it is for them."
