MORGAN Whittaker was on target as Middlesbrough came from behind to salvage a point at Oxford United.

Boro trailed to Luke Harris’s first half opener but Whittaker turned in Callum Brittain’s cross nine minutes after the restart.

Boro – who were again led by Adi Viveash ahead of next week’s appointment of Kim Hellberg as boss – pushed for a winner but couldn’t turn one point into three.

Boro remain second and they extended the gap to third place Stoke to three points after the Potters lost at Leicester.

Here are the main talking points:

FIRST HALF CONTROVERSY

Should Oxford’s goalscorer have been on the pitch?

Boro’s players thought not. Those in red surrounded referee Ben Toner after Fulham loanee Harris clattered into Tommy Conway but escaped with a yellow.

Anger deepened when, f

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