Middlesbrough have gained some much-needed confidence after accounting for Hull City on the weekend according to midfielder Stewart Downing.

Boro now need to take that form on to the next six games if they are to survive in the top flight and Downing is confident of that happening.

"We're determined to win again, we have to win," Downing told the club's official website.

"There's no point letting all the hard work we've put in go to waste.

"Overall I thought we thoroughly deserved the win on Saturday. I'll admit I thought, 'Here we go again' when we conceded another sloppy goal from a cross. But we responded well.

"We had all the talk beforehand from Hull saying that we were this and we were that and we don't do this and we don't do that.

"We showed that we didn't need to come out and talk, we did our talking on the pitch and were the better team by far.

"We can't worry about what other teams are doing, we just have to do our bit and I'm confident we'll get out of it, especially if we play the way we did against Hull."