Ahmed Hossam 'Mido' scored on his Middlesbrough debut to help the Premiership side beat Fulham 2-1 but he limped off the pitch with a foot injury. Mido received a warm welcome from Boro's fans despite playing on the road and he was followed by the cameras until he was substituted in the 69th minute. He was singled out before the game as “the player to watch” by Eurosport.com, who said that he might be the player “to lift Middlesbrough out of their slump.” The visitors went down in the 16th minute to a Brian McBride but the Egyptian international striker leveled the score ten minutes into the second-half. Substitute Lee Cattermole poked home two minutes from time as Boro grabbed their first win in three games. Mido scored twice on his debut with Tottenham in January 2005 to give the London club a precious victory over Portsmouth. Fulham started the game in explosive style and laid siege to Boro's area with the pressure paying off after only 16 minutes. McBride broke the deadlock with a close-range bullet after he was set up by Alexei Smertin. The American star left the pitch four minutes later with a dislocated knee. Mido had the first strike in the 22nd minute but his ball went directly in the hands of keeper Tony Warner. But a dreadful error from Warner gave Mido his first goal in Middlesbrough shirt in the 55th minute, when the Egyptian's shot surprisingly slipped past the Fulham keeper. In the 69th minute, Mido, who lacks game fitness and didn't join the team in their pre-season camp, left the game with an injury after his foot twisted while spinning around with the ball. Middlesbrough robbed the three points two minutes from time when Cattermole tucked the ball into the back of the net, capitalizing on a neat pass from Jeremie Aliadiere. /object
