Michael Carrick: Middlesbrough must “stick together” during adversity

Middlesbrough Head Coach Michael Carrick has stipulated that his side must remain as a unit during a patch of bad form in the Championship.

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00:00Following a fourth championship defeat in a row for Middlesbrough, which has seen them drop out of the play-off places,

00:06head coach Michael Carrick was adamant that they can't bounce back.

00:10I felt for the boys after the game, I said that to you.

00:14They put a lot into the game and didn't get anything out of it.

00:18I felt for them for the effort and the way they went about it, especially in the second half chasing the game.

00:25Listen, we were disappointed after the game.

00:28We wanted to win the game, we knew it was an important game.

00:32But yeah, we're good, we've moved on. We've got to get on with it.

00:37There's ups and downs in football and sport.

00:40You've got to accept it and you've got to move on and you've got to attack the next challenge.

00:45It's all we can do. We've got to stick together, we've got to help each other and we've got to look forward to what's ahead.

00:50There's no other way around it.

00:52They face fellow play-off hopefuls Bristol City on Friday night,

00:55hoping to get back to winning ways and ease the pressure on Carrick.