Championship

Middlesbrough 1-0 Wolves: Landmark day for Boro is crowned by Will Lankshear winner

Kim Hellberg believes Middlesbrough showed their promotion credentials with a 1-0 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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The LeaguePaper Team
11 October 2026

Middlesbrough’s Will Lankshear rises high to head the winner

By Scott Wilson

MIDDLESBROUGH 1
Lankshear 57

WOLVES 0
Kim Hellberg felt Middlesbrough showcased their promotion credentials after they beat Wolves at the Riverside.
The hosts celebrated their 150th anniversary in style as Will Lankshear’s second-half header lifted them into the automatic-promotion positions for the first time this season.
Wolves would have gone above Boro had they won.
However, the Teessiders were the better side throughout as Lankshear’s header from Tommy Conway’s second-half cross secured their fifth league win of the season.
Good win
Hellberg said: “It feels like a goo...

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