Buendia red-card blunder

NORWICH were frustrated by a stubborn Middlesbrough and not helped by Emiliano Buendia’s needless second-half sending off for a second yellow card after he slid in late on George Saville.

Head coach Daniel Farke said ‘It was not a tactical foul, there was no intention and no danger of injury. But Emi needs to be smarter in such a situation and not tackle.’

The visitors couldn’t capitalise and manager Neil Warnock said: ‘You’ve got to be happy with a point but there’s a little tinge of sadness we didn’t get three.

‘But I can’t fault them after three games in five-and-a-half days. We grew i nto the game and even against 11 we were starting to get on top. There won’t be many games where Norwich are looking for the final whistle.’