Championship

LATE CROOKS HEROICS HAS CHRIS ELATED

by
The LeaguePaper Team
16 January 2022

In-form Boro show heart in fightback
By Chris Dunlavy

MIDDLESBROUGH 2
Crooks 84, 90+5

READING 1
Carroll 68

STAR MAN

ISAIAH JONES Middlesbrough

EVENS STEVENS: Middlesbrough’s Matt Crooks celebrates after scoring Boro’s equaliser

Star Game
MATT Crooks scored twice in the final ten minutes to send in-form Boro steaming into the top six.
Injury ravaged and out of form, Reading were thumped 7-0 by Fulham in midweek and looked vulnerable throughout a one-sided first half on Teesside.
But a wasteful Boro side failed to capitalise on their dominance and looked set to pay...

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