Championship Championship
Regular Season - 11• 17 Oct 2026

Middlesbrough 2–2 Cardiff

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Match Recap

Middlesbrough let a two-goal lead slip through their fingers at the Riverside, and Cardiff walked away with a point they barely had any right to expect. Jack Moylan put the visitors ahead inside 22 minutes, and Ollie Tanner doubled it right on the stroke of half-time, leaving Boro staring at a result that would have dented their Championship push. But Michael Carrick's side, sitting second on 21 points with just one defeat in five, hit back fast: Tommy Conway pulled one back on 58 minutes, and Will Lankshear leveled it three minutes later to make it 2-2. For Cardiff, bottom-half and still finding their feet with a 2-10 record from their last five, grabbing a draw away at one of the league's form sides is no small thing. Neither side could find the winner after that, and the Championship table stays unsettled at the top. Two goals in two minutes to flip the momentum of the whole match, watch how Conway and Lankshear tore Cardiff apart in the space of 180 seconds.

Match Statistics

Middlesbrough
VS
Cardiff
57% Ball Possession 43%
2.81 Expected goals (xG) 0.91
36 Total Shots 7
12 Shots on target 3
11 Shots off target 3
13 Blocked Shots 1
23 Shots inside box 5
13 Shots outside box 2
11 Corner Kicks 4
3 Offsides 4
9 Fouls 10
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 1
1 Goalkeeper Saves 8
489 Total passes 378
408 Accurate passes 307
10 Free Kicks 9

Lineups

Middlesbrough
K. Hellberg 4-2-3-1
VS
Cardiff
B. Barry-Murphy 4-1-4-1

Substitutes — Middlesbrough

16J. Sarmiento 14M. Peart-Harris 17M. Arfsten 18C. Barron 6S. Berhalter 31S. Brynn 3S. Byram 19Leo Castledine 7W. Lankshear

Substitutes — Cardiff

2W. Fish 43P. Moreno 52T. Perrett 23C. Scanlon 33R. Tankiewicz 14D. Turnbull 39I. Davies 30H. Tyrer 50Charlie Holt