Ahead of Tuesday's visit of struggling Leicester, Kim Hellberg says Middlesbrough need to sharpen up in the final third
Against Oxford United at the Riverside on Saturday Boro enjoyed nearly 75% of the possession and mustered 24 shots on the U's goal but had to settle for a point from a goalless draw to lose ground on leaders Coventry.
While Boro have scored nine goals in their past six home games, conceding only once, eight of those goals came in two games against Southampton and Preston in January.
After the frustration of Saturday, manager Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees: "It's good the games keep coming.
"Almost every team we have played have ended up in a low block. We need to get better on it.
"No Championship team has been in the opposition box as many times as we did against Oxford but we need to create more from it. If you look back it's unbelievable how many opportunities we should have.
"In a normal game with some more quality maybe we could have scored four or five. We have won games at home with less opportunities than we had in this game.
"We need to keep improving. We need to be better at putting the ball into the box from more narrow positions.
"We need to keep working. For us it's key to hurt teams in different ways."
Leicester are winless in eight games and sit in the bottom three thanks to a six-point deduction but stopped the rot after four straight defeats as they were pegged back to draw 2-2 at Stoke late on in Gary Rowett's first game in charge on Saturday.
"I saw the game against Stoke," Hellberg, 38, said. "They have absolutely top-quality players who have played in the Premier League and Champions League. It's an unbelievable squad.
"It's weird that they are so [low], though they have had the points deduction of course."