{"id":212505,"date":"2025-12-26T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:41:07","slug":"middlesbrough-0-0-blackburn-rovers-visitors-frustrate-boro-at-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212505\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers: Visitors frustrate Boro at home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough started positively, but the normally-reliable Whittaker was off colour. He shot straight at Boro old boy Aynsley Pears when he should have done better before he dragged another effort wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luck was also against Whittaker when he hit the inside of the near post with a left-foot shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackburn had their moments as skipper Todd Cantwell fired into the side netting and former Rovers defender Callum Brittain deflected a Ryan Hedges shot wide before George Edmundson made a goal-saving challenge on Axel Henriksson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yuki Ohashi then missed a great chance when he dragged his shot wide after being played through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boro lost Alfie Jones and Matt Targett, while Ryoya Morishita went off injured for Blackburn, to worsen Hellberg&#8217;s mood and the Teessiders badly lost their way in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackburn had what few chances there were and Henriksson shot tamely at Sol Brynn before Matty Litherland also fired straight at the Boro goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boro&#8217;s poor afternoon was summed up when skipper Hayden Hackney was booked for scything down Taylor Gardner-Hickman when he might easily have been dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough started positively, but the normally-reliable Whittaker was off colour. He shot straight at Boro old boy Aynsley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-212505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}