Middlesbrough have completed their pre-season preparations with a 1-0 win at home to Getafe.

The hosts started brightly as Albert Adomah fired well wide, before George Friend forced the keeper into a low save.

Both sides were largely restricted to long-range shots for much of the half, as Stewart Downing volleyed over the bar before Getafe's Pedro Leon shot wide after a mazy run to the edge of the box.

After the break, Middlesbrough broke the deadlock as Downing picked out Kike with a defence-splitting pass, and he calmly found the bottom corner.

Downing went close to a second with a curled shot, which was tipped over the bar, before Alvaro Vazquez shot just wide from 25 yards for the visitors.

Middlesbrough play Preston North End next week.

Written by
Charlie Bennett