Without being at their best, Middlesbrough picked up an opening-day victory over Swansea City to get the Rob Edwards era off to a great start.

Dael Fry’s second half header was all that separated the two teams at the Riverside, in what was a tight encounter between two sides whose defences largely cancelled one another out. Despite that, Boro managed to find the moment to record back-to-back opening-day wins over the South Wales outfit.

Including the game-changing moment, the positive, negative and main thing we learned, here is the match debrief after Boro’s 1-0 victory.

The goal

51 mins: Boro 1-0, Fry - Another Boro goal from a set-piece, carrying on an encouraging record from pre-season. Fry makes a great near-post dash and flicks home a header from Morgan Whittaker’s delivery.

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