Middlesbrough 2-2 Portsmouth: Late Tommy Conway penalty secures point for Boro

Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick told BBC Radio Tees:

“For how well we’ve played for the most part and created so many opportunities, I thought we had a spell around the second goal for maybe five or 10 minutes where we lost the focus or intensity and lost our way a bit, but other than that I thought we were really good.

“We can definitely make it easier for ourselves, we’re doing so many good things in the game and a lot of difficult things really well.

“Some of the what are deemed simple things we were just getting wrong are small moments, which cost us, but we’ll put that right.”

Portsmouth manager John Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent:

“We’re obviously going to be disappointed – a bit like Elland Road where we came away from the game going into injury time with the lead and it transpires that we end up drawing the game.

“There’s a lot of disappointment from that point of view, but from the balance of the game Middlesbrough deserved to win it and we didn’t quite do enough in the second half to hold on to our lead.

“We played really well in the first half for large spells, I thought thoroughly deserved the lead going into half-time

“I think naturally when you come away to places like this you do sit deep and probably there’s a bit too much panic on the ball, we didn’t really quite settle down enough.

“It’s really good lesson as we go up through the levels and play against sides likes this that when we’re on it we can compete, but as soon as we drop even five per cent then sides like this do punish you.”