Coventry City 2-0 Middlesbrough: Viktor Gyokeres and Martyn Waghorn on target for Sky Blues
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Martyn Waghorn has now scored in the Championship for eight different clubs
Coventry City kept up their 100% winning start at home with victory over Middlesbrough at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Viktor Gyokeres grabbed his third of the season in the 71st minute as he rounded goalkeeper Joe Lumley to put them in front.
Debutant Andraz Sporar was close to an equaliser for Boro when he hit the bar before Martyn Waghorn sealed the points in injury time.
Coventry climb up to sixth, while it is now four games without a win for the visitors.
Their manager Neil Warnock had brought in three players just before the transfer window closed but only Onel Hernandez was in from the start. The Cuban, on his debut on loan from Norwich, almost set up Uche Ikpeazu but the ball flashed across goal.
Coventry could have gone ahead but Waghorn was denied by Joe Lumley, while Jamie Allen and Dom Hyam were both close to breaking the deadlock in the first period.
But home goalkeeper Simon Moore was on hand to make a crucial save from Ikpeazu at the start of the second half.
Mark Robins' side had to come from behind to win in injury time in their previous two home games, but not this time as Sweden striker Gyokeres latched on to Allen's pass.
Slovenia international Sporar, who has moved to the Riverside on a season-long loan from Sporting Lisbon, had replaced Hernandez and beat Moore with a header but not the crossbar as he tried to make an instant impact.
However, Waghorn then scored his first goal for Coventry - and for his eighth different club in the Championship - as they keep up their perfect start on returning to the city after two seasons away.
Coventry City manager Mark Robins told BBC CWR:
"I'm delighted for Martyn [Waghorn] because he has worked so hard to get any opportunity. He beats himself up and he shouldn't because he's concentrated on his performance and then goals come.
"To a man everyone deserves an enormous amount of credit, and the fans were again terrific, so a good day at the office. If the players work as hard as that, they will get more results than not. This was full of character, full of quality and thoroughly deserved."
Middlesbrough manager Neil Warnock told BBC Radio Tees:
"We had a few words at half-time and we came out much better second half. We took the game to them and had two or three great chances and the goalie made a super double save.
"But to give a goal away like that is a travesty with two lads on the line and it goes between them. We were a bit unlucky but we've got to stop feeling sorry for ourselves although the lads were saying we should have had two penalties."