Middlesbrough miss out on play-offs following loss at Coventry

The latest North East sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00A 2-0 defeat away at Coventry City saw Michael Carrick's Middlesbrough side miss out on the Championship play-offs this season.

00:07The head coach reacted to the disappointment.

00:10Listen, it's an awful feeling. There's no getting away from it.

00:12The disappointment in the group is huge.

00:16I think you could see that on the boys at the end of the game.

00:20How deflated, how disappointed and how hurt by the case so much and they're desperate to do well.

00:26I couldn't ask any more for them today.

00:27I thought we played really well and on top of that, the circumstances, it makes an even better performance.

00:34But we obviously didn't get what we wanted from the game.

00:38Just as we were going in a really good spell first half and taking control and looking really good,

00:43conceding before half-time, giving them something to hold on to.

00:47I thought we came on second half really positive, really bright, really very good in so many ways.

00:53And then we had opportunities, fell by the wayside, hitting the woodwork.

00:57Keepers making saves and then we had to go for it at the end and then you expect a bit of breakaway here and there.

01:04And probably the second goal is a goal-length clearance.

01:07We have a chance.

01:08Game's on a knife edge at that point and then they go and score the second goal.

01:12And Sunderland learned that their play-off opponents will be Coventry City,

01:16with the first game being on Friday evening.

01:19Head coach Regis Labrisse reacted to the news following their 1-0 loss to Queen's Park Rangers.

01:25Yeah, now this chapter is over.

01:28And obviously the result was not the result expected today and this period was a little bit weird with this fourth place secured early

01:42and the necessity to refresh the squad, to give minutes for players who didn't have the chance before to play many games.

01:54So now this period is closed and we know exactly the opponent and the fixture will have.

02:04So we don't have to overthink, don't have to analyze too much this period because it's done.

02:13So we don't have to overthink, don't have to overthink.