Aitor Karanka says Boro have to move on from QPR defeat

Karanka said: 'It was another game we should have won. It's difficult to take but we need to forget as soon as possible'

Boro's downbeat players can’t afford to dwell on Saturday’s last gasp defeat to QPR, insists Aitor Karanka.

With Huddersfield awaiting at the John Smith’s Stadium tomorrow night, the Spaniard knows he has to lift the spirit in the squad.

Boro looked to have earned a point against Rangers at the weekend before Bobby Zamora took advantage of Dimi Konstantopoulos’s stoppage time mistake to put the visitors ahead. Then Ravel Morrison made it 3-1.

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The shattering defeat means Karanka’s men have won only one of their last 11 league fixtures.

“It was another game we should have won,” said the Boro boss. “It’s difficult to take but we need to forget as soon as possible.”

Karanka refused to blame Konstantopoulos for Boro’s defeat.

“We are a team and we win together and we lose together,” he said.

“It was a mistake but I don’t want to say Dimi made a mistake.

“Dimi made a lot of saves in the game and made a lot of saves in the other games he played so I am happy with him.”