Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson admitted his side probably have to win all four of their remaining games to reach the play-offs.
Pearson said: "It's still do-able for us, but really we've now got to win our last four games."
That run will have to start with a win against a resurgent Bolton tomorrow, who are now in the play-off places after finding form.
In contrast, Birmingham's last-minute penalty equaliser at the King Power Stadium on Friday night stretched City's winless streak to nine games.
Pearson's men have slipped to eighth in the table, two points off the play-offs with those four games remaining.
However, all of those games are against sides above them in the table, giving City the chance to make up the lost ground.
Pearson admitted his side need to find a win quickly.
"We've got to win the next one, and we've been saying that for a long time now," he said.
"At this moment in time when we've just come off the back of a performance in which the players showed quite a bit of courage to get out there playing in a very positive fashion, it's difficult," said Pearson after the Birmingham game.
"I thought it was a very interesting tactical game as well and we created a lot of very good scoring opportunities.
"Unfortunately, we weren't able to win the game but the players were positive about how they approached it.
"We've got games left in which we play teams above us and we've got to do everything we can to beat them, because we've still got the opportunity to make some in-roads.
"To get so close to securing three points was tough on the team, but we're going to have to bounce back."
David Nugent lost possession in a dangerous area and then conceded the last-minute penalty, and Pearson admitted his side must cut out the mistakes which are costing them so dearly. City were also guilty of wasting a host of great goalscoring chances.
"We've created enough chances to win the game comfortably," he said.
"Unfortunately I've got to talk now about the equalising goal, which was avoidable, but we really should have won the game.
"It's hard on us, but the situation for the equaliser was avoidable.
"Unfortunately for us collectively, mistakes that we are making are costing us dearly. That's two games on the trot now where we've been ahead with a few minutes to go and we've only got two points from those games.
"That is very difficult for us to deal with at the minute."
