Middlesbrough are in the midst of a top-of-the-table battle for Championship promotion and faced off against play-off hopefuls Nottingham Forest.
Forest have been resurgent under new manager Dougie Freedman and went in to the game with just one loss in his seven games in charge.
Boro have been in and around the top since the start of the season and could well see themselves promoted to the top flight should they continue their run.
So, with the two meeting yesterday at the City Ground, we look back to another play-off contention year in April 2013.
Both teams were still in with a chance of making the play-offs – Forest’s more so than Boro’s.
It was the visitors who came out on top and edged the game 1-0 – it would be their final win of the season as they ultimately fell to 16th.
A back-and-forth encounter in the first half saw both sides test the other’s goalkeeper but to no avail.
It would be Tony Mowbray’s men who fired themselves ahead however just before the break.
Mustapha Carayol was the man on target as he fired from the edge of the penalty area in to the bottom right corner of the goal.
Boro should have had at least once more when Faris Haroun was found unmarked in the Forest area and he somehow clipped the ball over an open goalmouth.
The tight contest would finish with a Boro win which sent Forest down to eighth in the table – they would miss play-off football by two points.
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