Aitor Karanka urges focus from Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka urges focus from his squad as they look to close in on automatic promotion to the Premier League.

By Paul Gorst, Reporter | 03 April 2015

Aitor Karanka has urged focus from his Middlesbrough side as they continue their Premier League promotion push.

Boro were beaten 3-0 by rivals Bournemouth last week, and currently sit third in the Championship, a point behind the Cherries who lead the table.

Karanka told Sky Sports News: "All of the players are excited, but they know how difficult it will be. For every club, it is important to get promotion, but this club is a Premier League club. Everything [about it] is Premier League."

"I think the key is to not make many mistakes, because now in this league, every mistake is a problem and we have to learn about what happened against Bournemouth.

"They are one of the best teams in the league and they were much better than us that day. We need to learn from that game and that week, because we could have given it away."

Catch Sports Mole's live commentary of Boro's clash with Wigan Athletic here.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leicester City Leicester	46	31	4	11	89	41	48	97
P	Ipswich Town Ipswich	46	28	12	6	92	57	35	96
3	Leeds United Leeds	46	27	9	10	81	43	38	90
P	Southampton	46	26	9	11	87	63	24	87
5	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	46	21	12	13	70	47	23	75
6	Norwich City Norwich	46	21	10	15	79	64	15	73
7	Hull City	46	19	13	14	68	60	8	70
8	Middlesbrough	46	20	9	17	71	62	9	69
9	Coventry City Coventry	46	17	13	16	70	59	11	64
10	Preston North End Preston	46	18	9	19	56	67	-11	63
11	Bristol City	46	17	11	18	53	51	2	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	46	19	5	22	53	70	-17	62
13	Millwall	46	16	11	19	45	55	-10	59
14	Swansea City Swansea	46	15	12	19	59	65	-6	57
15	Watford	46	13	17	16	61	61	0	56
16	Sunderland	46	16	8	22	52	54	-2	56
17	Stoke City Stoke	46	15	11	20	49	60	-11	56
18	Queens Park Rangers QPR	46	15	11	20	47	58	-11	56
19	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	46	14	11	21	60	74	-14	53
20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	46	15	8	23	44	68	-24	53
21	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	46	13	12	21	59	70	-11	51
R	Birmingham City Birmingham	46	13	11	22	50	65	-15	50
R	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	46	9	18	19	48	77	-29	45
R	Rotherham United Rotherham	46	5	12	29	37	89	-52	27