Denzel Zanzibar 6,931 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Haha what the hell was Fabianski thinking there?? Great result. Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,246 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Annoying that Sunderland win. Only keeps us 4 points off the drop. Still better than 2 hours ago though. Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,229 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Full time and just what Boro needed after the Liverpool game. The lads gave 100% as usual, but still plenty for AK and the coaches to work on skills -wise and decision making. Even at 2-0 up I still felt it only needed one mistake by us or a bit of skill on Swansea's part to let them back in the game. Only relaxed after the third went in. Credit to Swansea, they never gave up and in fact were most threatening in the last 15 minutes. If Sigurdsson had played the whole game like he did the closing stages, Boro would have had a much tougher game. Link to post Share on other sites
chipchat 61 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Full time and a great result. At the start of the season, I reckoned Swansea were likely to get relegated, and plenty of reasons from that performance to believe that's the case. We looked comfortably better despite a bright start for Swansea, and our win was built on the midfield trio of Forshaw, Clayton and De Roon. Despite Negredo's two goals, Forshaw was my man of the match. Fabio's done really well in the team while covering for Friend, and Barragan might be the one who has to watch out for his place as a result after some mixed performances. Job done, good team effort all round, and bring on the next match. Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Most positive thing so far this season is that we have been very comfortable and easily the better team agaisnt all of our closest competition - Swansea, Sunderland, Hull, Leicester. If we continue to win the games against our competition like that we'll stay up. Great 3 points! Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Not to mention we've got 10 points from those four games Link to post Share on other sites
Nics 8 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 How good would sigurdsson be in our system... 100 % agree. I wonder if he's still at Swansea come February though.. Link to post Share on other sites
Aarfy_Aardvark 38 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I wish Sunderland would just *** off and die in the relegation zone. Hull and Swansea are down I reckon. But that other relegation spot is up for grabs.. Link to post Share on other sites
Jimmy 140 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Great result, just what we needed! For me, Negredo's best performance in a Boro shirt. Took his goals well, and link up play was superb. Link to post Share on other sites
MGMKLML 2 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 A nice game and a very important win. I think it was a game where the Karanka's pragmatism benefited him. Swansey were a bit dangerous in the last 10-15 mins only. Now it's only 3 points to 11th place. Let's hope the team will go as high as possible to save from relegation. Link to post Share on other sites
Pete Campbell 0 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Awesome result! Negredo really stood up. Friend's return really capped it off. He is in our best 11. If that means Fabio plays RB, LW, RW or wherever then so be it, fit them both in. My choice would be in place of Barragan. UTB Link to post Share on other sites
northern boro 446 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 AK not happy with the performance despite the win Link to post Share on other sites
Pete Campbell 0 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 AK not happy with the performance despite the win Good, I like to see that. Link to post Share on other sites
boro-unger 3,817 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Very good result that. Got our goal difference back up. Thought we shared very poorly, until Negredos first, which was beautiful. We played a bit better after that. Great to have gaston back and our two left backs in friend and Fabio were great as well. Friend was the only one who seemed to want a fourth! He really adds some attacking intent. Hope them two take the lb and rb position against Burnley. Up the Boro! Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Worst performance of the season according to Ak... Not sure I agree with that! Think he's just trolling us at this point Link to post Share on other sites
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