Overview
- Middlesbrough beat Stoke City 2-1 after trailing at half-time, moving back into the Championship’s automatic promotion places.
- Tomas Rigo opened the scoring for Stoke with a low strike that slipped past goalkeeper Sol Brynn at the near post.
- Alan Browne equalised three minutes into the second half, reacting first after stand-in keeper Tommy Simkin—deputising for injured Gavin Bazunu—spilled Aidan Morris’s shot.
- Browne then delivered the cross for Tommy Conway’s winner, the striker’s fourth of the season and his first from open play since August.
- Kim Hellberg’s half-time changes, including the introductions of Delano Burgzorg and Leo Castledine, helped tilt the match before Bosun Lawal’s late dismissal for a second yellow card.