Will Lankshear’s spectacular second-half strike proved enough for Middlesbrough to beat Championship rivals Wrexham and progress in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n
Lankshear, a big money summer signing from Tottenham, struck in the 61st minute when he produced a clinical scissor kick that found the far corner.<\/p>\n
The result was no less than Kim Hellberg’s side deserved, although the Riverside crowd did endure some nervy moments late on as the visitors pressed for a leveller.<\/p>\n
Boro handed starts to three of their summer arrivals, and Lankshear missed a golden early chance when he was denied by Wrexham keeper Danny Ward at point-blank range.<\/p>\n
The striker also headed over, while at the other end Sam Smith had a low effort blocked by Sol Brynn with the goal at his mercy.<\/p>\n
Another Wrexham counter-attack yielded a chance early in the second half, but Smith lost his footing as he went through on goal.<\/p>\n
After his side went behind Phil Parkinson rang the changes in a bid to find more urgency, handing a first club appearance to new signing Ben Whiteman.<\/p>\n
However, it was Boro who could have doubled their lead when substitute George Edmundson headed wastefully off target.<\/p>\n
Morgan Whittaker also went close, but ultimately Lankshear’s strike proved enough to ensure Hellberg’s men will take a win into their Championship opener with Lincoln on Saturday, 15 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Lankshear’s spectacular second-half strike proved enough for Middlesbrough to beat Championship rivals Wrexham and progress in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-586460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586460","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=586460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}