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Middlesbrough 1-1 Cardiff City: Calum Chambers stunner and stoic defensive display earns Bluebirds draw

A Calum Chambers stunner and a fantastic rearguard display saw Cardiff City earn an important point on the road at Middlesbrough.

Emmanuel Latte Lath opened the scoring after just 11 minutes with a coolly-taken finish at the near post, which put City right behind the eight-ball up in the North East.

But 10 minutes later Chambers sent a peach of an effort flying past Tom Glover to restore parity. However the visitors had to show some real defensive resilience and they even had a late chance to win it through Rubin Colwill, but it wasn't to be.

Omer Riza will doubtless be pleased that his side have moved to three games unbeaten and have taken five points from those games during this tricky new year period.

Cardiff started brightly at the Riverside Stadium. Just three minutes into the tie, Jesper Daland released Callum O'Dowda on the left and the Irishman found Ollie Tanner. The winger chopped inside, skinned Dan Barlaser, and sent a fierce right-footed effort towards the top corner before Tom Glover leapt and pawed it away.

But space began to open up in the middle of the park and Boro were emboldened, zipping the ball through the middle and ragging Cardiff's defence left and right. Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here.

The dangerous Ben Doak did the damage for the opener on 11 minutes when he whistled past O'Dowda before sending a low cross to the near post. Latte Lath, a transfer target for Premier League Leicester City, got across Dimitrios Goutas and finished excellently first time.

The hosts had wrestled control of the game but Cardiff struck against the grain. From nowhere a cross in towards makeshift striker Rubin Colwill was half cleared to the edge of the area, where Chambers was waiting. The former

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