Boro<\/a> on the front foot driving forward and laid the ball off for Targett\u2019s second goal\n<\/p>\n\n 8 Morris: Set the tone for Boro\u2019s display with his aggressive running and pressing \u2013 is a crucial component of what the Teessiders do well under Hellberg\n<\/p>\n
\n 7 McGree: Played an important role in the Boro midfield as he returned to his former club \u2013 delivered a typically-energetic display\n<\/p>\n
\n 7 Strelec: Had been quiet for much of the game, but scored a crucial second-half goal as he angled home a brilliant header via the inside of the post\n<\/p>\n
\n 7 Conway: Led from the front in terms of Boro\u2019s effective high press \u2013 his work-rate is absolutely relentless and his closing down was a key factor in his side\u2019s second goal\n<\/p>\n
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Subs:\n<\/p>\n
\n 5 Whittaker (for Strelec, 61): Helped Boro see things out successfully in the closing stages\n<\/p>\n
\n Browne (for McGree,74)\n<\/p>\n
\n Sarmiento (for Conway, 75)\n<\/p>\n
\n Gilbert (for Hackney, 90)\n<\/p>\n
\n (not used): Wildsmith (gk), Edmundson, Munroe, Hansen, Sene.\n<\/p>\n
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Man Of The Match: MATT TARGETT \u2013 Boro\u2019s new goalscoring star \u2013 after a week when the standard of the Teessiders\u2019 shooting was a hot topic, the wing-back clinically dispatched the two chances that came his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM (4-2-3-1): Beadle 3; Osayi-Samuel 4 (Osman 72), Klarer 4, Panzo 5 (Laird 84), Wagner 4; Tomoki 5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-454717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}