Healy appeared to have rescued a point when Boro keeper Mark Schwarzer failed to hold his injury-time strike with replays showing the ball had clearly crossed the line.

But referee Andy D'Urso and linesman Ian Gosling refused to award the effort, leaving Sanchez furious that their blunder had cost his side a point.

He said: "Everybody in the stadium saw as soon as it happened that the ball was over the line.

"It's a big decision that the linesman has to get right. He had a clear view of it.

"If referees and linesmen don't want technology to take the big decisions out of their hands then they have to make those big calls.

"Look at the reaction of the Boro players - their body language told them it was a goal.

"Plus five Fulham players jumped in the air when it went in. I told the referee a major error had been made between himself and the linesman.

"I can't understand how they didn't see it. I don't like technology, referees should be making the decision. But they have to be right."

Brian McBride opened the scoring with a routine 56th-minute strike but dislocated his left kneecap in the process of stabbing the ball home and will be out for around three months.

To compound a miserable day, Hameur Bouazza dislocated his right shoulder and is facing a three-week spell in the treatment room.

Sanchez said: "It's been a bad day at the office. It started going wrong when Brian scored.

"He dislocated his kneecap and will be out for longer rather than shorter - months, though not the season.

"Hameur then dislocated his shoulder and we lost our momentum. We gave them Mido's equaliser.

"Clint Dempsey misses an open goal and then we equalise late on but it's not given."

Boro boss Gareth Southgate hailed new signing Mido who equalised in the 55th minute when his weak shot was deflected into the goal by Fulham keeper Tony Warner.

The $15million signing from Tottenham gave a committed display until he was substituted soon after scoring with Lee Cattermole firing the late winner.

Southgate said: "As soon as Mido went into the dressing room I could see the influence he was going to have at the club.

"He has presence, is a character and has confidence. He'll get hold of people and we need that. I felt that if he started the match he'd give the whole team a lift.

"He's not played any pre-season games so scientifically he shouldn't have been out there.

"But he wanted the challenge and that tells you the sort of character he is. He gave us confidence and was up for the fight.

"As his fitness gets better and we get used to what he's about, he'll give us more and more.

"We didn't know how long he'd last but he gave much more than we hoped for."

He continued: "After we scored we looked more likely to win. We grew in belief

"We had the rub of the green but you have to work hard as a collective to get that.

"It's a first away win too - we waited until January last year for that last season.

"It wasn't pretty today but sometimes you have to scrap for things in this league."

Southgate refused to be drawn on Ayegbeni Yakubu's omission from today's squad amid speculation the Nigerian striker is set to join Everton for $25million.

He said: "We've not had any offers for Yakubu. I just decided that the squad that travelled was the one I wanted for this game.

"I've no idea if Yakubu will be sold in the next few days."