Quick-fire Hasselbaink gets Boro off to a flier

Grasshoppers 0 Middlesbrough 1

The Dutchman fired the Teessiders ahead with just 10 minutes gone, and had Szilard Nemeth taken advantage of two golden opportunities to make it 2-0 before the break, the result would not have been in any doubt by the time the half-time whistle sounded.

However, he did not and the home side who had an equaliser harshly ruled out for offside dominated the second 45 minutes to such an extent they will feel unfortunate to have lost.