MICHAEL Carrick had four major complaints after Middlesbrough's 1-1 draw against Rotherham, a result he admits "stings".

Marcus Forss scored a late leveller for Boro after Cafu had opened the scoring for the Championship's bottom club against the run of play just before the hour mark.

But Carrick was left hugely frustrated by four decisions from the officials that he felt proved costly.

Boro's head coach felt Rotherham's goal shouldn't have stood, claiming Jordan Hugill in the build-up. He was equally as frustrated with the decision to disallow a late Josh Coburn goal. Matt Crooks was flagged offside but Carrick said the substitute was clearly onside.

Carrick was also angered by the Hugill push in the build-up to Isaiah Jones injuring his hamstring in the first half and the decision not to award Boro a penalty when Sam Greenwood appeared to be dragged to the deck just before the break.

Carrick said: "The story of the game is their goal is offside. Hugill is offside in the build-up right in front of the linesman and then Crooksy is onside at the end.

"I don't know why the goal was ruled out, I haven't spoken to anyone, I've just looked myself. Crooksy is in line with the centre-half and Josh is behind the centre-half. I don't get it.

"I'm standing in my position where I am and I was shouting for the offside in the build-up to their goal and the officials didn't flinch. I don't know how they haven't seen that, then it's led to the goal from nowhere. That's two massive decisions.

"Then there's Sam's penalty in the first half when he pulls him back."

On the Hugill push in the build-up to Jones' injury, Carrick said: “The referee didn’t seem to see it as being important but we’ve got an injury from it. It has a big impact in the game as well. I don’t know what more to say about that."

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Carrick added: "It stings that one. It's disappointing.

"That's two games against them now and we've come away with one point which is a little bit difficult to understand.

"They came to make it difficult and credit to them for that.

"I still thought we had enough in the game and some bright moments and chances and enough good football in the game. We were bright in the first half. The second was stop-start and stuttered, free-kicks, throw-ins, taking forever and there was no flow so it was difficult for the lads to get the rhythm and create pressure.

"Credit to the boys because it wasn't easy to break them down. We found a goal and got back into the game, it would have been quite easy for that one to fizzle out into a defeat but we finished really strong and we scored a perfectly good goal to win 2-1. It's very frustrating.

"I'll always take positives. I always find a way to take positives, that's important.

"It was one of them days where it was frustrating or it could have been but the boys kept going and kept trying to create and play and got the goal.

"There were enough positives. Marcus playing a lot of the game, Josh being back in and around it, Lewis, it was fantastic to have him back on the pitch."