Brilliant Boro blitz Belgrade

Middlesbrough 3 Partizan Belgrade 0

“Stand-in” strikers Szilard Nemeth and Joseph-Desire Job finally ended their long goal droughts to guarantee Boro top spot in Group E, and with it a third-round tie against one of the other seven third-placed teams from the group stages.

Nemeth and Job scored first-half goals at the Riverside to vindicate Boro manager Steve McClaren’s decision to bench first-choice duo Mark Viduka and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, before youngster James Morrison applied a coup-de-grace finish.