Coventry Edge Ever Closer - But Who Will Join Them In Premier League?

Middlesbrough, who went into nan Easter play successful nan apical two, still had nan opportunity to extremity it location pinch triumph astatine Swansea City successful nan 17:30 BST game.

Alex Bangura group them connected their measurement pinch a 12th-minute extremity but, aft 2 Zan Vipotnik penalties put nan Swans successful front, Boro needed a Tommy Conway spot-kick to rescue a point.

Boro are floundering pinch 2 wins successful their past 10 matches and while they scored much than erstwhile for nan first clip successful 5 games, nan emotion remains they are a frustrating and inconsistent proposition successful beforehand of goal.

Manager Kim Hellberg said aft nan lucifer location would beryllium much "twists and turns" to travel successful nan conflict for promotion - aft a time of specified akin rollercoaster emotions.

"You've sewage 3 teams connected 72 points - Ipswich person immoderate games successful hand, truthful they're successful a amended position than nan different two, but we are successful a amended position than Millwall because of our amended extremity difference," he told BBC Radio Tees.

"There will beryllium twists and turns. No squad will conscionable spell and triumph games. It's difficult and you request to conscionable effort successful this play to get those points and wins.

"We person to support fighting. It's reliable we didn't win, because we thought we were bully capable successful nan crippled to win, but past you person to do it.

"The easy reply astatine nan infinitesimal is that we're not being objective capable aliases smart capable successful different ways."

With a four-point shortage to Ipswich, and nan games successful manus nan Tractor Boys hold, Hull tin beryllium considered nan outsiders successful this race.

But nan Tigers showed against Coventry they tin lucifer anyone successful nan section and erstwhile again reaffirmed nan awesome occupation Sergej Jakirovic has done successful his first play successful English shot nether a transportation embargo.

Although erstwhile asked astir what that constituent intends successful position of nan wider discourse of Hull's season, Jakirovic was talking much play-offs than automatic promotion.

"Somebody said it is 73, 74, 75 [to scope nan play-offs] but God knows really many. Until we are successful this position we will conscionable look astatine ourselves and effort to return points successful each game," Jakirovic told BBC Radio Humberside.

"Norwich are coming, Derby is there, Southampton... but, nary matter, we must look astatine ourselves."