Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate settled for their 1-1 draw at Arsenal - despite conceding a late equaliser.

Jeremie Aliadiere had Boro ahead through the first-half before Kolo Toure nodded in with just four minutes left to earn a share of the spoils.

Southgate said: "We should be delighted but Arsenal probably deserved to get something from the game.

"I'm incredibly proud of how they performed. We were a bit of a laughing stock last weekend and we lost a lot of pride that day.

"We dug in here, despite giving a lot of energy on Wednesday night (against Aston Villa), and showed a lot of character.

"There was one moment of great quality for the goal and the guys did not get what they deserved - but nobody gave us a prayer of getting anything here today."

Southgate added: "We knew we had to be very compact in the middle and defensively and the team did that brilliantly.

"But I said before that we weren't coming just to make up the numbers.

"It's nice to have taken four points from them but that's down to the team. We had to restore pride in our town with these last two games because that had been dented."