{"id":629850,"date":"2026-09-19T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629850\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:38:12","slug":"birmingham-city-2-2-middlesbrough-adilson-malanda-late-goal-snatches-draw-for-boro-at-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629850\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City 2-2 Middlesbrough: Adilson Malanda late goal snatches draw for Boro at Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham made a bright start, with Jhon Solis putting an early chance wide, while it took a fine reaction save from Radek V\u00edtek to keep out a point-blank Luis Vazquez header in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vitek went on to deal with an effort from Millar, while Middlesbrough finished the first half with a flurry of chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cozier-Duberry fired over the bar after linking up with Myles Peart-Harris and Will Lankshear had a shot deflected onto a post just minutes before Arfsten broke the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Arfsten came up with the finish, the chance was superbly carved out by Cozier-Duberry as he cut in from right and beat a number of attempted tackles before finding the American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millar&#8217;s low finish to level up early in the second half added to his already glowing reputation at Birmingham, where he has made a huge impact since arriving on loan from Premier League side Hull City in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The goal that put Birmingham ahead four minute later was a messy one, with a Jay Stansfield header at the back post from a corner hitting a number of bodies before McGree directed it into his own net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took a mistake from Beadle, although the goalkeeper argued he had been fouled, to allow Malanda to force the ball home and ensure Middlesbrough remain level on points with second-placed West Ham in the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham made a bright start, with Jhon Solis putting an early chance wide, while it took a fine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-629850","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\/629850","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=629850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}