'Confident' Hellberg works on Boro's scoring touch
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Kim Hellberg said Middlesbrough are working hard to find their scoring touch but he retains "all the confidence in the world" that it will return.
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Boro have slipped five points behind Championship leaders Coventry City following defeat at the Sky Blues and frustrating back-to-back home draws against Oxford United and Leicester City.
Hellberg's side dominated the latter two games and registered a total of 41 shots in them, but only 11 were on target with one goal to show for them, against the Foxes on Tuesday night.
"We are trying to react to it and work from it - we keep moving forward," he told BBC Radio Tees.
"I think we have scored the third most goals in the league since I arrived. We will continue to work on scoring more goals and finding solutions.
"We had four games in a row [from 20 December to 1 January] when we didn't score for seven hours and we tried to work from it to become better, and we did, [scoring 13 over the next four matches].
"Now we're doing the same thing, we don't score enough. And we're still creating a lot of opportunities, but we haven't been efficient enough in those situations."
Hellberg refuted the suggestion his players were lacking energy against Leicester.
"There are a lot of players who have played almost every minute," he said. "We have a thin squad, a lot of players coming back from injury.
"I don't think the energy has been a problem but you can always have more energy. [The problem is] we haven't been quite good enough in situations where we could and should score goals."
Despite the 'blip,' going into the weekend fixtures, with Hellberg's side headed to Birmingham on Monday (20:00 GMT), Boro remain four points clear of third-placed Millwall, though Ipswich Town, six points back in fourth, do have two games in hand.
"I have all the confidence in the world," he said. "We have one loss in nine games, we draw two games [but] when you look at them we created a lot of opportunities.
"We have to keep working, keep finding ways to score and improve. That's what we're trying to do."