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Commentary
CASH beat a number of Middlesbrough players and slammed a shot inches over.
A looping effort from TAVERNIER was stopped by RAYA.
10¹A drive from EMBOLO seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to palm the ball away.
13¹GOAL!! A corner shot through the penalty area and ZAPPACOSTA fumbled the ball into his own net. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
14¹TAVERNIER brought the ball away from WARD-PROWSE and rattled a poor shot into the crowd.
23¹GOAL!! A tackle from BRANDT gave Middlesbrough a free-kick on the edge of the area which AINA drove past the Nottingham Forest 'keeper. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
28¹EMBOLO stormed through the Nottingham Forest defence but shot straight at RAYA.
29¹DAWSON flicked a right foot shot over the bar from long range.
30¹An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the 'keeper by RONALDO.
32¹GOAL!! A long goal-kick from CHARLES caught the Middlesbrough defence square and RONALDO rushed through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (2-1 Middlesbrough)
42¹GOAL!! On the right wing EMBOLO collected a defender's clearance and hit it through the penalty area for ORIGI to tuck it over the line. (3-1 Middlesbrough)
The Nottingham Forest 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from EMBOLO.
BARNES rushed a simple chance.
11²ORIGI made space on the right and pulled the ball to EMBOLO who clipped the ball wide.
14²RICHARLISON's shot beat the Middlesbrough 'keeper but rebounded off the Middlesbrough upright.
17²BARNES shot over.
23²RONALDO headed over.
24²A weak strike from TAVERNIER bounced agonisingly wide.
25²A mix up in the Nottingham Forest defence enabled LUCAS MOURA to hammer the ball wide.
27²A free-kick from CHARLES went just beyond the near post.
29²A lovely effort from BARNES scraped the top of the crossbar.
33²BRANDT fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
34²LUCAS MOURA was put clear by WOOD and he nutmegged RAYA but drilled his shot inches over.
35²KOVACIC's shot was well held by the Middlesbrough 'keeper.
41²A shot from BARNES was smothered by the 'keeper.
43²GOAL!! Nottingham Forest were awarded a penalty after a foul on WARD-PROWSE and RONALDO put it past PERIN. (3-2 Middlesbrough)

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 15
Home league form: XLWL
Overall league form: XXLXWLLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Mattia PERIN1David RAYA
(c)Craig DAWSON2Matty CASH
Ola AINA3Nathan AKÉ
Abdoulaye KANTÉ4Julian BRANDT
Maximilian WÖBER5Shea CHARLES
Nathan WOOD6Davide ZAPPACOSTA
LUCAS Rodrigues MOURA7James WARD-PROWSE
Marcus TAVERNIER8Harvey BARNES
(p)Breel-Donald EMBOLO9Cristiano RONALDO(c,p)
(f)Matt CROOKS10Mateo KOVACIC(f)
Divock ORIGI11RICHARLISON de Andrade
Manager
Jonny HOWSON  12  John McGINN
Zack STEFFEN  13  Mike MAIGNAN
Ryan GILES  14  Tammy ABRAHAM
Sergio REGUILÓN  15  Timo WERNER
Riley McGREE  16  ISCO
 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 6
Away league form: WWXL
Overall league form: XWWXXXLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 3 Nottingham Forest 2
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 34,975, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Grant Hegley 5½)

Zappacosta 13¹ (og), Aina 23¹, Origi 42¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Ronaldo 32¹, Ronaldo 43² (pen)
  
  
  
40
138
34
77
66
1313
34
48%52%
Man of the match: Abdoulaye Kanté