Match Day Thread Middlesbrough FC v Sunderland AFC – Monday 3rd February 2025 - KO 20:00

I never go along with the bogey team/indian sign/never show up sequences of results.

This is a team that's just beaten Boro with different/better players and a good manager who showed up Carrick at the SOL.

Boro recently drew at home to Cardiff with 75% possession but only 3 efforts on target, Latte Lath scored and he's gone.

Carrick isn't quite coach he thinks he is imo. Boro's defence is quite lumpy and slow so we need to get the ball up quickly and keep it on the ground.

And, if we press, on occasion, do it full pelt and everyone involved ...

... their central defenders clearly hate playing out of defence despite Carrick plugging along with it.

Ha'way the Lads, let's make it a night to remember.

 

Been twice it's windy as ****. Enjoy

But no seriously I'm just being jealous as I'm stuck here in 3 degrees and just been told I'm going to visit the mother in law tomorrow. The cantankerous old bitch. I hate free Saturdays.

 

Feel for ya mate

 

Class act

 

Bastard

 

Preparations for the Boro match are in full swing ...

... hopefully Boro will be shaken and stirred

 

We were all in the Royal Arrow in Benidorm for that one. Sunderland supporters going nuts, the few Boro ones with heads in hands and the neutrals going WTF when Rigg scored.

 

A win would really consolidate that play-off spot

 

Love it lol, did you realise when you wrote it

 

Oh yes

 

Changed vote to away win. Wilson hat trick incoming.

Will change predictor when I decide who else will score for us

 

After the week he's had, if he scores the winner at Boro ...

... I think he'll spontaneously combust when he goes to the supporters after the game.

Now he has that contract I think the tension will go and his finishing will be clinical.

 

He'll have a field day with their slow defence, they've not came across him yet as he was on the bench in our home game

 

A fantastic but nervy ending to the season would be beating Burnley at Wembley with Wilson scoring the winning penna against that cheating c*nt Trafford.

Please let it be automatic

 

Thanks again RTB for another tip top MDT again your starting eleven will do me, but again I would like to see a diamond formation with Riggy at its head
Thats were he really stands out for me , not out wide supplying crosses, hence I would play your midfield as a diamond to use him central rather than wide, our front two can if required morph into a three with Rigg as and when. I think this game will be decided on how well we cope with their front men , a lot depends on Cirkin O/9 and Mepham, and maybe given recent form its something of an Achilles heal. A possible solution could be to go 3/5/2 on this one we have the players, but its probably too soon to give it a go just yet, anyway Reg knows best . OaU

 

Love the sentiment of this one but if we end up at Wembley against Burnley and it goes to pens I think my heart will have given out on me and I'll be unconscious somewhere in the stands.

 

You won't be alone mate....I'll definately need the paramedics!

 

Poveda at the end there, hopefully back to fitness