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Teams – Middlesbrough v Swansea

Location – The Rivarrrr-side Stadium

Competition – The Championship

Date – Saturday 22nd September 2018

Kick off – 15:00

 

 

Welcome Aboard

 

Ahoy me hearties. Welcome aboard the good ship Boro as we raise the anchor and load the grapeshot. Tis a fine day to go swan hunting.

 

 

The Last Games

 

Boro:

Boro 2 – 0 Bolton

 

Boro avasted Boltons unbeaten away record on a windy night on Teesside. George Saville pounced after a dodgy backpass by Bolton to nab the first. Tony Pulis watched from the crow’s nest as the Bolton Scallwags grappled with Jordan Hugill and lashed out at innocent ball boys. Assombalonga waited until the 95th minute to grab his goal, plunging the Wanderers to the icy depths below.

 

 

Swansea:

Stoke 1 – 0 Swansea

 

The Swans sank to 10th after Stoke scored a potentially offside goal. The ball rebounded off Afobe, who appeared to be in an offside position. As the Swansea players waited in vain for the linesman to hoist the colours, Joe Allen smashed the ball into the net.

 

 

Arrr-vailability News

 

Boro:

 

:) - Rudy Gestede continues his return from injury.

 

      - Martin Braithwaite should be ok after receiving a bloody face on Wednesday

 

 

Swansea:

 

:( - Bersant Celina and Leroy Fer are out for the swans

 

:) - Tom Carroll and Jay Fulton are available

 

 

Form (League only - Most recent game last)

 

Boro: WWWDLW

 

Swansea: DDLWDL

 

 

A Shot across the Bow

 

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/forum/229908/the-official-middlesbrough-versus-swansea-city-match-thread/#7

 

A rather good opening post in there.

 

 

The Un(ger)-official Match Preview

 

Boro will forgo the parley and go straight into battle on Saturday. Pulis’ crew will be looking to entertain the masses and keep the swans contained below deck. 

In the midsts of Storm Ali, Boro may need to batten down the hatches at times, but will surely claim the booty at the end of the day!

 

Ex-Cardiff manager Davey Jones will presumably be cheering for the Boro as well.

 

 

Possible line up

 

----------------Randolph------------------

----Shotton--Flint--Ayalarrr--Friend---

-------Clayton--Howson--Saville-------

----Braithwaite----Ass----Downing----

 

 

Walk the Plank

 

- What shanties will you be singing at the match on Saturday

 

- What do you do with a drunken sailor?

 

 

 

 

“Gentlemen! You shall always remember this Saturday as the day that you *almost* beat Captain George Friend!”

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I think Pulis might stick with Hugill for this. Whether that's alongside Britt (with Braithwaite dropped), or instead of, I'm not sure. I also mentioned on Twitter that I think McQueen might get a start, and Downing rested sometime soon, but I don't think that will be tomorrow. The rest of the team picks itself.

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Randolph

 

Shotton

 

Fry

Flint

Ayala

 

McQueen

 

Besic

Clayton

Saville

 

Braithwaite

Britt

 

That would be my team. No Howson just because he was holding his hamstring in the last few minutes on Wednesday. Friend and Downing to be rested.

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Mentioned about meeting McQueens father at Norwich he indicated that his son would be playing at PNE for the cup game so he might not feature from the off.

 

Am hoping Besic starts producing his best form for this game.

 

Swansea imo will be the one of the hardest teams to beat at home this season because you simply do not know what to expect and they keep going with a certain amount of flair for the whole game.

 

Key absentees for the Swans and seemingly Bony not available to me indicated this is probably the best time to play them.

 

With varied opinions on our current performances I feel that this game has to be a "must win" so I hope that our tempo and clinical side of our play improves.

 

5 wins out of 5 at home bodes well and that should be the aim

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I think we'll start to see a Midfield 3 of Besic-Clayton-Saville. Between them Besic has that touch of class, can drive forward with the ball and pick out passes between the lines. Saville will arrive late in the box and can add that finishing touch. Clayton provides the positional discipline and screening for the defence. All 3 of them are hard runners and tough tacklers, I can't think of a 3 in the league that would be more difficult to play against.

 

Going to go for a 2-1 win, Flint to score from a set piece as we're due one. Should be winning this one really but a draw wouldn't be the end of the world.

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Swansea over recent years have a good track record when visiting The Riverside so they may very well be confident about playing us tomorrow

 

They have won one of the last 9. Not sure I'd call that a good track record.

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Swansea at home always brings back that horror game where we we lost 4-3 a few seasons back.. were we not winning 3-1 at one point?

 

Changes I'd make would be Britt back in for Hugill. Keep it similar otherwise. Maybe Besic if Howson is injured (he was limping around with a hammy for last 15 mins). If not injured though I'd much rather Howson on, and straight shoot out between Saville and Besic.

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Honestly not sure who I'd prefer between Saville and Besic. Besic hasn't particularly hit the ground running since he's come back and Saville was pretty ordinary against Bolton barring his goal too. Hopefully we can see the best out of both of them soon, early days for both yet.

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Honestly not sure who I'd prefer between Saville and Besic. Besic hasn't particularly hit the ground running since he's come back and Saville was pretty ordinary against Bolton barring his goal too. Hopefully we can see the best out of both of them soon, early days for both yet.

 

I thought Saville put in a decent shift defensively, but yeah, going forward there was less to write home about. But he's still acclimatising, and obviously got the goal, so I'd be shocked if he were dropped.

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Ok DS award up for grabs

 

Correct full time score and name of fgs from either side.

 

Please put time of goal in your submissions as the nearest to actual time will win in case of duplicate predictions.

 

If you predict uniquely without time you will still win if a correct prediction.

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Having started all 8 games I could see Howson making way for Besic/McNair. Similar with Downing, possibly for McQueen? Saying that Pulis did keep a pretty consistent XI last season but that might have been down to a lack of options...

 

2-1 Flint FGS 30 mins

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