Aitor Karanka slams "awful" Middlesbrough

Aitor Karanka has labelled Middlesbrough's defeat at Sheffield Wednesday this afternoon as their "worst performance" of the season.

Boro went down 2-0 for their second loss in three games, and head coach Karanka pulled no punches in a post-match interview.

"I said after Bolton [on Wednesday] that was the worst performance but now this is the worst performance of the season," The Gazette quotes Karanka as saying.

"It was awful, I don't have words to explain what happened but we now have a game on Tuesday we have to learn from this game very quickly.

"I have to learn a lot of things from the last two games and we have to keep going."

Boro are still in the automatic promotion places, but would have gone top of the table had they won today.