Last Updated: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:10
Tony Mowbray was a relieved man after watching Middlesbrough hold off a battling Nottingham Forest side 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium.
Boro looked to be firmly on course for their first npower Championship victory of 2012 when Marvin Emnes' deflected effort and Lukas Jutkiewicz's 20-yard strike immediately before and after half-time gave them a two-goal cushion.
From seemingly out of nowhere, though, Joel Lynch's 66th-minute header halved the deficit and Forest's cause was further helped when Kevin Thomson was sent off for two bookable offences 15 minutes from time.
"We worked very hard for it," Mowbray said. "And yet from being very comfortable at one stage at 2-0 and playing some nice football in the first half and asking questions of them, you get a sloppy goal to concede and the sending off on the back of that left us digging in.
"The pleasing aspect is the resilience the team showed in the last quarter of an hour to see the game out. But it wasn't as comfortable as we would have liked."
Thomson was dismissed for two late challenges in the space of eight minutes on Robbie Findlay and Adlene Guedioura respectively.
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