Ghana winger Albert Adomah continued to impress in pre-season as he played over the weekend when his English club Middlesbrough failed to win for the first time this summer when they took on a spirited Scunthorpe side.
The Black Stars player was a second-half substitute but his Boro dominated the half but struggled to create meaningful chances.
In fairness the heat was brutal with the thermometer touching 96 degrees fahrenheit at kick-off time.
So it was credit to both sets of players that game was played at a high tempo.
With Boro making 11 half-time substitutions and Scunthorpe nine, it's no surprise the second 45 minutes wasn't full of classic, flowing football but the Ghanaian was impressive.
But it was certainly a decent contest with League One promotion hopefuls The Iron up for the scrap.
Boro's best moved of the game almost produced a goal on the hour mark. Carayol dinked a lovely pass into Albert Adomah, who turn his marker before lashing a shot at goal but the keeper pulled off a fine stop.
Boro finally equalised in the 84th minute when Grant Leadbitter tried his luck from distance and although he didn't connect with the shot as cleanly as he would have liked, the ball bounced in front of the keeper, who misjudged the flight and failed to keep it out.
Leadbitter missed a good chance to score the winner four minutes later but fired over from a decent position following good work from Adomahwhile Scunthorpe had an injury time penalty appeal turned down following James Husband's tackle on Stephen Dawson.
HOW THEY LINED UP BORO.
First half (4-2-3-1): Ripley; Kalas, Jackson, Burn, Friend (captain); Clayton, Forshaw; Tomlin, Reach, Wildschut; Kike.
Second half (4-2-3-1): Konstantopoulos; Nsue, Ayala, Fry, Husband; Maloney, Leadbitter (captain); Adomah, Downing, Carayol; Fewster.
SCUNTHORPE. First half (3-5-2): Anyon; Canavan, Wiseman, King; Clarke, Bishop, McSheffrey, Ness, Laird; Madden, Hopper. Second half: (4-4-2): Anyon; Wiseman, Mirfin, Boyce, Goode; Dawson, McAllister, Williams, Mendez-Laing; Wootton, Van Veen.