Neil Danns is targeting six points from Crystal Palace next two home matches to ease relegation fears.

The Eagles battled to a point thanks to a 1-1 draw at Watford on Tuesday night to take them out of the drop zone for the first time since November.

At Selhurst Park they are unbeaten in seven matches and have not conceded a goal in their last six outings, form Danns believes they must continue into crunch home fixtures against relegation rivals Middlesbrough this Saturday and Sheffield United on February 19.

He said: "We have got two games against teams closer to our position and they are the games we really need to take points from, Middlesbrough and Sheffield United - they are two massive games.

"If we can get six points from those two that will give us a really good platform.

"We got out of the bottom three on Tuesday and that is a massive confidence boost for us if we can just maintain staying out that bottom three.

"Dougie Freedman has not set any points targets, we are taking each game as they come, treating each game as a three pointer."

Danns made his 100th appearance for Palace on Tuesday night but, with his contract ending this summer, was the subject of a transfer deadline day bid from Hull City which was rejected by the Palace board.

Danns though insists he knew nothing about the approach and is happy to continue playing his trade in south London after bringing up his century.

"It is an honour to play 100 games for any club and I am especially honoured to do it at Crystal Palace as well," he said.

"On Monday, to be honest, I was just sitting at home with my little boy practicing the guitar, and I saw all the rumours on Twitter.

"But it was a day I stayed off the computer and the social networks because I didn’t want people reading into things or speculating, so I just kept out of it.

"I was just at home with my family chilling out.

"I didn’t hear anything from anyone so for me it was just another normal day.

"You hear speculation and you hear this and that, but I knew at the end of the day that no-one had come in for me and I wasn’t leaving Palace.

"All the stuff that goes on in the papers I don’t really pay attention to.

"I heard absolutely nothing yesterday so literally to me it’s as if nothing happened."