Middlesbrough Vs Brighton & Hove Albion *****Official Match Thread*****

[perseus]

Riverside Stadium


WhoScored Prediction:

Prediction
This is arguably the biggest league game in Championship history, as it's a straight fight - whoever wins the game, will be automatically promoted to the Premier League.
Middlesbrough enter the game having only taken two points from their last two games, and need to rediscover their winning touch here.
Brighton are unbeaten in 13 games, but know that a draw won't be enough to claim second place.
Prediction: Middlesbrough 2-2 Brighton

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Michael Dean (Referee)



When the two giants of Madrid, Real and Atlético, meet this month for the biggest prize in world club football, they will be watched by a global audience in the hundreds of millions but a potential difference in prize money of just £4.5 million. On Saturday, at the Riverside Stadium, a Championship match will take place between Middlesbrough and Brighton and Hove Albion that is a winner-takes-all shootout worth around £200 million. It is, by a distance of around £45 million, the most lucrative prize for a single match in the history of football.

Middlesbrough vs Brighton: The richest game ever played as £200 million awaits winners of football's biggest shootout

Albion (4-4-2): Stockdale;
Bruno, Greer, Goldson, Rosenior;
Knockaert, Kayal, Stephens, Murphy;
Hemed, Baldock.
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[nwgull]

This is so ****ing exciting it's not true. Train full of BHA and Boro just coming into Midds, and yes it's overcast, but looking like dry weather.

 

[Notters]

Half of the boro fans seem to be wearing their yellow away shirts.

 

[GT49er]

Bloody rugby here today, so no chance of a pub showing the football. Still, we usually seem to lose when I watch on TV so I am resisting the temptation of a day pass for Sky Sports.

Come on the Albion!

 

[brakespear]

Watching from home via day pass as feel i get ti stressy to watch in company

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[Cheshire Cat]

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian."
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Got shouted at by a bunch of Borough fans in the town centre. We've only come for the powee or something?

What the hell is that?


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[Marty McFly]

Bloody rugby here today, so no chance of a pub showing the football. Still, we usually seem to lose when I watch on TV so I am resisting the temptation of a day pass for Sky Sports.

Come on the Albion!

Ditto here (not the rugby part). Listening on Seagulls World as we always lose when I watch a stream.

You might want to skip the next part of my message... But it worked well previously. Superstitious? Moi?

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[Marty McFly]

Is SeagullsPlayer player on for anyone yet?

 

[Wilko]

Got shouted at by a bunch of Borough fans in the town centre. We've only come for the powee or something?

What the hell is that?


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Boro or Parmo?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Watching from home via day pass as feel i get ti stressy to watch in company

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Same here. Exactly the same reason too...

 

[tomfitz12]

Stockdale; Bruno, Greer, Goldson, Rosenior; Knockaert, Kayal, Stephens, Murphy; Hemed, Baldock

 

[Driver8]

#BHAFC team v Middlesbrough: Stockdale, Bruno, Goldson, Greer, Rosenior; Knockaert, Stephens, Kayal, Murphy; Baldock, Hemed. #MFCvBHA

#BHAFC subs v Middlesbrough: Maenpaa (GK), Calderon, Bong, Sidwell, Skalak, LuaLua, Wilson. #MFCvBHA

 

[KZNSeagull]

Harsh on Skalak but probably the right choice for this game.

COME ON!!

 

[brakespear]

Good to see Murphy in imo, Skalak didnt do much against Derby (although probably played out of position maybe)

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[TSB]

Murphy's better defensively. Skalak's set pieces for the final twenty-twentyfive when the pressure is at its most intense.
At least that's the theory.

 

[GT49er]

Ditto here (not the rugby part). Listening on Seagulls World as we always lose when I watch a stream.

You might want to skip the next part of my message... But it worked well previously. Superstitious? Moi?

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How dare you besmirch the good name of my phone by associating it with crapatalk! Even if I did have it, I would turn the caption off!

UTA!

 

[lordlush1972]

Murphy is chomping at the bit just like when skalak was on the bench

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[darters74]

The correct starting 11

 

[Dorset Seagull]

All calm here in SP7 after a bit of light housework. When you look at that team there are players that have played at the highest level or been in this situation before with lots of experience. Nothing to worry about and a comfortable 0-2 away victory will see us through