Less than 18 months ago Lewis Wing combined playing for the Northern League side Shildon with working on a factory production line but on Wednesday night the attacking midfielder’s first goal in a Middlesbrough shirt propelled Tony Pulis’s side into the quarter-finals.
Quite apart from scoring, Wing’s sharp passing, clever link play and streetwise interceptions lent a certain brio to a contest which Palace did little to illuminate until far too late. Tellingly Dimi Konstantopoulos, the home goalkeeper, did not make a single significant save until he repelled Andros Townsend’s 88th-minute shot.
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