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Commentary
TAVERNIER was put clear by HOWSON and he raced past RAYA but drilled his shot over the bar.
A shot from ORIGI was smothered by the 'keeper.
11¹The Nottingham Forest 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate drive from Middlesbrough's EMBOLO.
15¹GOAL!! CROOKS tried to play the ball out of the Middlesbrough penalty area but was tackled by KOVACIC who headed the ball to RICHARLISON for a simple tap in. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
15¹EMBOLO's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
16¹GOAL!! An imaginative AKÉ played a wonderful ball down the left to HERNÁNDEZ who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-0 Nottingham Forest)
23¹A perfect shot from TAVERNIER was dealt with by a fine stop from the 'keeper.
25¹A late challenge on EMBOLO by ISCO results in a booking.
26¹A strike from TAVERNIER held no problem for RAYA.
CORREA chipped the ball to HOWSON who nodded it just wide.
12²A free-kick from RONALDO went just wide.
14²ISCO worked the ball to RICHARLISON, JOTA controlled his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the Middlesbrough 'keeper.
20²EMBOLO ran onto a delightful ball from HOWSON but toe-poked his shot wide.
27²ISCO beat TAVERNIER and drove the ball to KONSA who fumbled his effort wide.
28²HOWSON rasped the ball through a ruck of players but RAYA was a match for it as he dived to his right.
30²A penalty box meleé resulted in JOTA knocking the ball over.
31²RONALDO waltzed away from TAVERNIER and rattled a weak shot into the crowd.
34²JOTA booked for violent conduct.
36²A clever pass from TAVERNIER was knocked goalbound by CROOKS only for the Nottingham Forest 'keeper to claw away.
37²RICHARLISON kicked the ball wide from the edge of the box.
40²The 'keeper saved a swerving shot from TAVERNIER.

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 14
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWLWXWLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Mattia PERIN1David RAYA
(c)Craig DAWSON2Ezri KONSA
Ola AINA3Theo HERNÁNDEZ
Matt CROOKS4Mateo KOVACIC
Maximilian WÖBER5Nathan AKÉ
Nathan WOOD6Ben WHITE
Ángel CORREA7James WARD-PROWSE
Marcus TAVERNIER8JOTA
(p)Breel-Donald EMBOLO9Cristiano RONALDO(c,p)
(f)Jonny HOWSON10ISCO(f)
Divock ORIGI11RICHARLISON de Andrade
Manager
Nathaniel CLYNE  12  JORDI ALBA Ramos
Zack STEFFEN  13  Mike MAIGNAN
Matthew HOPPE  14  Davide ZAPPACOSTA
Lewis WING  15  Matty CASH
Riley McGREE  16Tammy ABRAHAM
 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 4
Away league form: WLXX
Overall league form: WWWLWWXX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 0 Nottingham Forest 2
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 35,035, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Martin Penicka 8)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Richarlison 15¹, Hernández 16¹
 WhiteóAbraham 7²
  
 Isco 25¹, Jota 34²
32
1218
211
83
35
118
61
49%51%
Man of the match: Mateo Kovacic