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  1. Other results reprieved Boro - Boatengpublished at 15:29 22 April

    George Boateng playing for Middlesbrough in the 2006 Uefa Cup final against Sevilla in Eindhoven Image source, Getty Images
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    Geprge Boateng played over 200 games for Middlesbrough across six seasons

    Former Middlesbrough hero George Boateng says other results in the play-off battle reprieved his former club after their disappointing loss at Sheffield Wednesday.

    With Bristol City and Coventry City, the two sides above them, both losing as well, the gap remains at three points following the Hillsborough setback.

    Boro are away to the Sky Blues on the final day of nthe regular season and know that on Saturday, they must at least match the result of Frank Lampard's sideto take it to that last match.

    "Because everybody lost, they all did each other a favour," Boateng told BBC Radio Tees. "Everything is now prolonged for another week."

    Michael Carrick's team host managerless Norwich City on Saturday, while Coventry go to relegation-threatened Luton Town.

    Netherlands midfielder Boateng, a member of the Boro side that won the League Cup in 2004 and reached the Uefa Cup final two years later, knows that nothing less than three points at The Riverside will suffice.

    "I don't know how the game against Coventry away will go," he said.

    "They are quite in form and very strong at home, so I can see a victory for them, so Middlesbrough really need to perform and beat Norwich to have a foothold in the play-offs."

  2. 'The season is still alive' - Carrickpublished at 18:32 21 April

    Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick comforts Marcus Forss after losing to Sheffield WednesdayImage source, Getty Images

    Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick says the side's season "is still alive" despite a disappointing 2-1 loss to Sheffield Wednesday.

    The Owls had not won in six league games before defeating Boro however with both Coventry City and Bristol City also conceding a defeat, the loss has not left the Teesside club worse off on the table.

    "In the end, it hasn't changed a lot of what the next two games are going to bring but certainly today, we could have won the game and everyone else could have won their games and we'd be in the same situation," Carrick told BBC Radio Tees.

    "If we won the game, we'd be in a better situation. I'm not denying that.

    "For our mindset, we've got to learn about managing our games better in the thick of it and managing the space on the pitch and being more compact as a team.

    "Disappointed with today but the season is still alive."

    Middlesbrough are currently in seventh place, three points adrift of Coventry in sixth.