Middlesbrough make a winning start to their Championship season as they saw off Swansea City.
Emmanuel Latte Lath's first-half penalty gave the dominant hosts a deserved lead after Isaiah Jones was tripped by Azeem Abdulai.
Their failure to finish inside the top six was partly due to a slow start which yielded only two points from their first seven matches, but they already have three points one game into this campaign after winning their opening fixture for the first time in 10 years. Goalkeeper Seny Dieng caught an eighth-minute Swansea corner and immediately launched a long ball to an unmarked Jones, who spotted Swans debutant keeper Lawrence Vigouroux rush off his line but sent a looping long-range shot wide.
His introduction lifted the Swans' tempo, but they were fortunate not to fall further behind when Latte Lath misdirected his close-range free header from a corner. “They test you, they work you, they like possession and we were aware of that and I think we had the tools and the players and the shape to balance that off.“There’s a good spirit and fire about the group. They epitomised that today with a bit of quality on top.”“We started the game really poorly. I’m so upset with how we started. It’s a tough place to play – the crowd were loud, it’s a really good squad and the manager’s been here a while, he’s brilliant.
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