Downing regrets missed chances

Stewart Downing believes Middlesbrough should have secured Premier League survival far earlier than they did this season.

Downing: Admits frustrations
Downing: Admits frustrations

Victory in Boro's penultimate match of the campaign, against Portsmouth on Saturday, finally made them mathematically safe.

But winger Downing insists the club should not have been in such a predicament.

"We shouldn't have been in that situation," he told the club's official website.

"We've had many chances (to win), especially at home.

"We haven't taken those chances."

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Mag (Middlesbrough fan)

"It's quite obvious to anyone except the barcodes that Boro play the best football of all of the "mid-table" sides on their day. The problem is that when it's not our day we revert to hoof and hope."

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