Psychologically for Boro especially it'll be awful if we end up that far clear despite the respective runs of form each team were in at the turn of the year.
To be fair we also hadn't got a direct replacement for Sheaf which we now have. We still had a strong squad but it wouldn't be unfair to say it over-performed early season.
They don't have a proper centre forward - they created enough good openings in the second half last night to score but had nobody in the middle to finish the chances.