Middlesbrough 1 Bristol City 3
Miller 35 Adomah 13
Pearson 62
Davis 88
A sense of disbelief left the Riverside with the Boro fans
today, following an unexpected lacklustre performance against Championship
strugglers Bristol City.
Boro, who were looking to rebound from their defeat to
Cardiff last week, looked to have steered back on track when Ismael Miller cancelled
out Albert Adomah’s early strike. But in foggy conditions the hosts struggled
to produce their best football, as goals from Stephen Pearson and Steven Davies
sealed back to back defeats, something almost unthinkable a few weeks ago .
The Boro side showed three changes from their last outing, as
George Friend and Faris Haroun were both sidelined with injuries. While joint top
scorer Scott McDonald was sacrificed, starting on the bench. Miller, Marvin
Emnes and Stewart Parnaby were the trio to replace them.
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| Adomah was a threat all game |
The hosts started the brighter in the opening ten minutes,
but it was Bristol who took a shock lead, when Joe Bryan got the better of
Parnaby on the left wing before he picked out Adomah inside the area who tucked
his shot under the body of keeper Jason Steele.
Boro were creating the better chances, the best one falling
to Lukas Jutkiewitz who miss timed his header when he was found in space from
Miller’s cross.
But the visitors, especially Adomah, looked a threat on the
break all afternoon, however they failed to capitalise on some careless
defending when Pearson again had time in the Boro box, failing to hit the
target, as he fired his shot over the bar.
Bristol were later made to regret that chance, as Boro drew
level ten minutes from half time. An in swinging corner from Leadbitter wasn't dealt with, before the ball dropped to Miller who added his third goal of the
season as Boro looked to push on.
During half time the thick fog closed in providing some
difficult conditions for the second half. Both teams struggled to retain the
ball in the opening minutes, but then came the moment of controversy. Another
corner from Leadbitter took a deflection over the keeper appearing to cross the
line, however the officials let play go on to the outburst from the Boro fans
towards the north stand.
The resulting break from City nearly turned the tables when
a good move came to Adomah whose shot rebounded off the cross bar, while the
Boro players were still appealing to the referee.
More casual defending from Boro allowed Person to cut inside
of defender Seb Hines, before the winger’s low left foot shot beat Steele at
the far post to the silence of the home crowd.
Mowbray introduced McDonald and Luke Williams up front to
try and find a way back into the game, but frustration only grew as the crowd
inflicted their anger at the officials while Emanuel Ledesma and Andre Bikey
were both booked for dissent.
Long range efforts from Emnes and substitute Kevin Thompson
were the closest Boro came. But the game was sealed two minutes from time when
Adomah breezed past Hoyte to find Davis in space who curled the ball past
Steele causing the fans to head for the exit.
The result means Boro slip to fourth in the table as they
will hope to improve for another home game with Huddersfield on Tuesday.
Struggled to rate any of the Boro players higher than a 6
this week. No one really stood out
I would give man of the match to Albert Adomah
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