Every single Championship game is an important one for Burton Albion.
That goes without saying, given the ruthlessness of the division and the tally of points required to ensure your survival, as last season proved.
It certainly felt that way when the Brewers travelled to Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road back in January.
A last-gasp defeat at Cardiff City the previous weekend had sent them into the bottom three for the first time in the campaign, and a response was needed.
But there was added intrigue to Albion's clash with the Rs by the time of kick-off.
It had the potential to be manager Nigel Clough's final game as Burton boss.
In the day or so beforehand, Nottingham Forest - a relegation rival - had approached Albion for permission to speak to Clough about the then-vacant hotseat at the City Ground.
That permission was subsequently granted. It meant the QPR game was played under a cloud of speculation about the managerial future at the Pirelli Stadium.
Would Burton see their manager poached for a third successive season? Would Clough, so influential in Albion's rise to the second tier, be tempted by the great sentimental value of a return to the club where his father made history and where he himself plundered more than a century of goals?
That speculation had to be put aside, of course, as the Brewers focused on a potentially pivotal fixture.
And how they put it aside.
A second away win of the campaign was clinched, courtesy of Luke Murphy's first-half long-ranger, Lloyd Dyer's deft finish, some eye-catching counter attacking football and a familiar level of commitment and resilience in defence.
It lifted Burton out of the relegation zone, and they would not drop back in until a week into the current campaign.
After the whistle, Clough was surrounded by the media, with journalists and broadcasters eager to know his thoughts on Forest's approach.
His emotional responses showed that a genuinely gut-wrenching decision lay ahead.
"The dilemma is pretty obvious," he said at the time.
Head and heart will have been in constant battle over the next 48 hours, before he confirmed on the following Monday that he and his management team would be staying with the Brewers.
In Clough's own words: "Staying is the right thing to do."
Albion had lost eight of their last nine league games heading to Loftus Road and were slipping towards the wrong end of the table in January.
Who knows how big an impact that victory over the Rs - only Burton's second on the road - was in informing Clough's decision, as he committed to "stay and continue the job".
It may not ultimately have mattered, but it certainly gave the entire Brewers camp a timely boost.
It was provided by a superb on-field display - and Andy Garner acknowledges how intent the players were to do just that given the context of the clash and Forest's approach for Clough.
"Obviously it unsettled them before the game, but winning the game and talking afterwards, they were desperate to put in a good performance," said the Albion coach.
"They wanted the gaffer to stay, that is for sure.
"It was a strange weekend - everything's going on in the manager's mind and lots of things are happening.
"But it showed, as well, that we were focused.
"Come 3pm, there was only one thing on our minds - everything else goes to the back of your mind after that.
"We made sure that we got the team right and everything, and we wanted to put on a performance.
"To be fair, the players did that and we got a fabulous result."
That result, and Clough's decision in the days that followed to commit his future to the Brewers, provided a springboard for Albion to go on and complete the astounding job of staying in the Championship.
If tomorrow's clash with the Rs can provide even half of the momentum that that one did, Albion and Clough will see it as a great afternoon's work.
