GERRARD BACK IN ANFIELD GROOVE; SMOOTH FINISH: Jamie Carragher (Far Left) Celebrates His Goal and Steven Gerrard (Left) Comes Up with Liverpools Winner in Injury Time

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Byline: Joe Bernstein

2 LIVERPOOL 1 MIDDLESBRO Carragher (86), Gerrard (90)

STEVEN GERRARD'S miserable week ended on an incredible high when he struck Liverpool's winner with virtually the last kick of the game in front of the Kop.

Gerrard, such a forlorn figure cast out on the left for England in midweek, is the turn-to man at his natural home whenever Liverpool are in trouble.

So, it was no surprise that with Boro about to leave Anfield with a welldeserved point, it should be the captain who burst forward in the 94th minute and rifled home a shot into the top corner from 18 yards that stand-in goalkeeper Ross Turnbull barely saw.

Gareth Southgate and Boro will not believe they lost the game, having led …