article_snippet.sent: Boro boss Aitor Karanka said before the game that Boro boss Aitor Karanka team had to win all four of his team remaining matches to finish in the top two of a claustrophobic Championship.
article_snippet.sent: Boro were relegated in 2009 and even the play-offs have been beyond even the play-offs in the years since.
article_snippet.sent: This maximum at least guaranteed post-season participation, but even the play-offs will want to avoid that scenario.
article_snippet.sent: And with the likes of Patrick Bamford in this kind of form even the play-offs have every chance of going up automatically.
article_snippet.sent: Karanka said: ‘We want more than the play-offs and the players showed that here.
article_snippet.sent: Karanka, though, could well be using Karanka friendship with Jose Mourinho to secure another loan stay should his friendship with Jose Mourinho join the West Londoners in the Premier League.
article_snippet.sent: Boro were good value for this win
article_snippet.sent: Boro now have three matches to play as three matches to play chase automatic promotion to the Premier League .
article_snippet.sent: Boro, though, held on.
article_snippet.sent: One down, three to go.
highlights_snippet.sent: Middlesbrough secure Championship play-off place with win over Wolves .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Boro one point off automatic promotion with three matches to play .