S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Middlesbrough 1 Swansea 0 | Att: 26,035 (Away 685) | 3pm | Saturday 9th August

[Deleted member 1454]

I'd take a draw there all day long. We were better in the second half on Saturday, but still looked way short of where we need to be.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Morgan Whittaker waiting to open his account for Middlesbrough!! ​

 

[Glyn1]

Early Scoring Predictions - Middlesborough win 4-0. Just can see our defense being ripped apart and with no striker its gonna be difficult one.

Their goalkeeper is only average at best and their back four makes a lot of errors. They also have a new manager (like us) who may not have settled in yet. I'm going for 1 - 1.

 

[Swans Jack]

Their goalkeeper is only average at best and their back four makes a lot of errors. They also have a new manager (like us) who may not have settled in yet. I'm going for 1 - 1.

Need some of that positivity. I'll take that score considering our situation.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Vigs

Key
W Ham Loan
Burgess
Tymon

Franco
Galbraith

Inoussa
Widell
Eom

Cullen

Is how I see us lining up if no one else comes in

The Lorient game blew me away. Sheehans favored formation was 4-3-3 and we all expected Franco, Galbraith & Widell to be the 3 with 2 wingers and a No 9 up front.

What I saw has me seriously concerned. More than the injuries.

I saw 4 midfielders, 1 winger and 1 no 9. It looked so clearly wrong.

Galbraith is a 6 or 8 who played a lot at RB last year. Instead I saw him leading the line alongside Cullen as if we had 2 No 10's on the pitch.

Widell being an 8 or 10 playing correctly.

That left us with Fulton doing wall passes with whoever was near him.

Whatever that formation/lineup was I hope we never see it again

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Morgan Whittaker waiting to open his account for Middlesbrough!! ​

Isnt it always the way. But whoever their now departed manager was he must have altered Whitakkers game plan/style after Boro signed him. Banging goals in for Plymouth and zero for Boro. New manager might get him firing again.

I'm going for a 1-2 win or 2-2 draw.

 

[Ringwood]

If we can shore up Key with someone at CB to cover him and do a job I'm the middle then we may have a chance. Probably going to be Fulton so down our right is going to targeted. Only have Cullen up top is extremely limiting as is shows every time we play a sole striker.

Just hope we can use our pace out wide on the break

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Notoriously tricky place for us to go - think we've lost our last 5 games there?
But they're not the team they were, new manager and a mixed bag in their pre season as well.
That being said, I can see us struggling as we looked miles off it on Saturday, injuries obviously not helping our cause.
Would snap your hand off for a draw.
Likely win for them though 1-0, maybe 2-0.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

The last time we won there was the 2019/2020 season.

Our last 10 overall results against them have been extremely poor ...

W2 - D1 - L7

 

[jackathome]

I can't see this being better than 1-1, as Whittaker is guaranteed to put one in, and we've struggled to score at all

 

[Menston4128]

Isnt it always the way. But whoever their now departed manager was he must have altered Whitakkers game plan/style after Boro signed him. Banging goals in for Plymouth and zero for Boro. New manager might get him firing again.

I'm going for a 1-2 win or 2-2 draw.

Or maybe Whittaker just isn't that good (which is my belief).

Yes at Plymouth he was scoring freely (well for a period at least) and was maybe the big fish in a small pond.

The bottom line he had 1 decent season in 23/24 and really that was half a season.

He is a very lazy player and for some reason a luxury that worked well at Plymouth.

Say that watch him score tomorrow.

 

[monmouth]

They say never do well in the final practice before the real thing, so I'm going for a 3-1 win (Cullen 2, Fulton).

 

[jackharris]

 

[jackharris]

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[Martyn - Derwydd]

I'm playing my Gameweek 1 Bench Boost chip on this game. Figure if we have 15 players on the pitch we might just win it.