Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick said his side have to go into their game with Coventry next week with "belief and hope", after dropping points in a goalless draw with Norwich.
Boro are now ninth, two points outside the top six, and face the Sky Blues in a crunch match on the final day of the season next Saturday.
"We needed to the win the game and we just didn't have that moment that we needed to find. We just weren't able to do that. There was a couple of moments when we had few opportunities but it just didn't drop for us," he told BBC Radio Tees.