Match Day Thread Middlesbrough v Southampton, Saturday, 09th May 2026, 12:30 KO - Live on Sky TV

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Well with all the circus in the lead up, and how bad we were for a lot of that, 0-0 is a great result to take into the home game.
 
st_brendy said:
I was always confident that our bench would be superior (significantly so) than theirs. But they never should have given us a chance to use that bench to improve us, and almost win it.
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100%. Not sure the answers for Tuesday, but all the subs made a huge difference today
 
Decent result. Would have taken that before the game and doubly so at half time.

Boro were excellent in the first half. We couldn't handle their pressing at all, kept giving the ball away and had to ride our luck. But they'd somewhat run themselves into the ground and we were definitely the better side in the last half hour or so.
 
Good result in the end. Some woeful individual performances but have to take the result, especially as the whole tie could’ve been out of sight in the first half
 
That sums of Boro for much of the past two months. Still playing really good stuff, but not taking their chances. And then their subs made them weaker, and the nature of the play-offs lead to them sticking rather than twisting.
 
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Saintmagic said:
They went in hard on him in the first 5 mins or so and when that happens he doesn’t want to know for the rest of the game
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It’s why a lot of people say he disappears in big games. Against a low block he gets more time, but when it’s end to end, it bypasses him completely.
 
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Brizzletiss said:
100%. Not sure the answers for Tuesday, but all the subs made a huge difference today
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I think Stewart has to start - Larin was just too poor; properly awful - but Charles is a more difficult one. He's obviously good enough to start, but so are Flynn and Jander. And until we've played the first 10 minutes on Tuesday, we won't know if it's the good Azaz or the bad Azaz.

Matsuki I expect comes in for Fellows.
 
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Who'd have thought that viewing someone's training ground doesn't put the ball in the back of the net? Go figure. Excellent result for us, we dominated them for most of the second half. The subs all came on and made an impact. Looking forward to Tuesday night already.
 
Charles does better for us off the bench so would start with Downes and Jander again on Tuesday. Only change I'd make is Stewart for Larin as that's what we do with those two. I'd be tempted to start Matsuki and be fine if we do, but he has had a better impact off the bench then Fellows has for us. And although we won't be playing for it, got to be mindful that this could go to extra time.
 
Wow, what happened to Larin today?! As soon as Stewart came on and we got higher up the pitch we looked a threat and pushed Boro back. Could even have knocked that.
 
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