Martin O'Neill has backed Middlesbrough to triumph in the race for sixth place.
O'Neill's Nottingham Forest side beat Boro 3-0 at the City Ground on Monday, which allowed Derby County to go above them into sixth-place in the table.
Derby now face eighth-placed Bristol City on Saturday in a game that could go a long way to deciding who finishes in the play-offs come the end of the season.
Yet O'Neill has warned the Robins and the Rams that Middlesbrough aren't out of it yet.
He said (via Derbyshire Live): "They won three games on the bounce, prior to this (defeat by Forest), and they are not out of it, by any stretch of the imagination, after this game.
"They have dropped out of the top six for this moment, but they have loads to play for still.
"They still have a chance of making the top six."
