Goalkeeper Jason Steele reckons Middlesbrough need to turn seriously “nasty” over their remaining fixtures.
Boro have six more games in which to revive their flagging play-off ambitions following their midweek scoreless draw with struggling Peterborough United at the Riverside.
Those begin this weekend with a trip to another of the promotion hopefuls, Hull City, who are still in second place despite the blow of losing at home to closest challengers Watford earlier this week.
“In training we’ve been a bit more physical, getting stuck in and maybe that’s what we need to show on the pitch,” Steele told the Evening Gazette. “Perhaps we shouldn’t be trying to be the best football team in the league – which in my opinion we are. Maybe that hasn’t worked for us over the last couple of months.
“We need to start running and kicking people again and being nasty,” he added. “Maybe that’s what we have to do in the remaining games.”
Ninth-placed Boro are still only six points from the play-offs despite a dismal sequence of results since the turn of the year.
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