Hull City 0-1 Middlesbrough: Alex Gilbert scores late Boro winner

Hull City boss Ruben Selles told BBC Radio Humberside:

“That [goal] being in the last seconds is hard to take. It hurts because if you cannot win it – and sometimes it happens like that – then you don’t lose it at the very end.

“It was a game that didn’t look like it was going to be for us, but we need to learn to at least get that point at the very end.

“Middlesbrough are a good team, they are powerful, and the players on the pitch were doing a good job and then the substitutions made them better.

“We needed to put in a lot of effort and we probably need to know how to navigate those moments.

“The goal that late, with the amount of effort everyone put in, it’s a little bit of heartbreak.”

Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick told BBC Radio Tees:

“Those [late goals] are the ones where you get that instant emotion that pours out of you in those situations – it’s why we love the game.

“The players have been giving everything, we kept going until the end, and it was a fantastic day for us. We need to use it as a bit of a springboard.

“You can see how much it means to the boys, how we’re together. The spirit gets us through in the end.

“I thought we deserved it. In the end it came and we can enjoy that one, that’s for certain.

“I honestly didn’t give up. It was a fantastic way to finish the game.”