Overview
- Will Lankshear rose at the back post to head home Tommy Conway’s cross and give Middlesbrough a 1-0 victory on Saturday at a sell-out Riverside Stadium.
- The win extended Boro’s unbeaten league run to seven games and came during the club’s 150th-anniversary celebrations, with the result lifting them up the Championship table.
- Wolves dominated parts of the closing stages but failed to create meaningful shots on target, and Cesar Peixoto’s second-half triple substitution, including Fer Lopez, did not produce an equaliser.
- Rodrigo Gomes was forced off early in the second half after limping from a late first-half challenge, Rafiki Said made his long-awaited debut, and Peixoto said Lopez’s minutes would be managed because of a congested schedule.
- Wolves missed the chance to record three consecutive clean sheets for the first time since January 2022 and now face quick turnarounds that will test squad depth and recovery plans.