🎧 Is the play-off buzz back?
"Now the talk on the training ground is going to be 'we have to do our best every day'," Middlesbrough left-back Neto Borges tells BBC Radio Tees."We saw now in the second half, what we can do and that's the mentality we have to carry on."Paul Addison and Neil Maddison are joined by Boro fan Dana Malt to discuss Middlesbrough's second-half comeback against Oxford United and how hopes for a place in the play-offs have been revitalised - but can the team keep the fans believing over the next seven games?Includes post-match interviews from Borges and boss Michael Carrick.Listen to the full episode and more on the Red Alert podcast.
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