Overview

• Yang Min-hyeok scored in the first half at Fratton Park to settle the match and end Boro's undefeated league run.
• Middlesbrough slipped off the top of the Championship after Coventry won earlier, missing the chance to reclaim first place.
• Portsmouth secured their first league victory in five games, holding firm under sustained second-half pressure.
• Edwards rejected travel or fatigue from a three-game week as an excuse and praised the backing of more than 2,100 away fans.
• Boro were without injured centre-backs George Edmundson and Darragh Lenihan, with selection shaped by those absences.