Middlesbrough vs Brighton and Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Everest]

Venue: Riverside Stadium
Date: Saturday 10 December
Kick-off: 1500 GMT

Referee: MICHAEL NAYLOR
Assistants: Ryan Newman and Sebastian Stockbridge
Fourth Official: Barry Gordon

League Matches at Middlesbrough
Brighton wins - 1
Middlesbrough wins - 9
Draws - 5
Brighton goals - 10
Middlesbrough goals - 35

League Results at Middlesbrough - all time
English Division Two (old)
21.03.1992 Middlesbrough 4-0 Brighton
04.05.1991 Middlesbrough 2-0 Brighton
18.10.1989 Middlesbrough 2-2 Brighton
31.08.1985 Middlesbrough 0-1 Brighton
27.04.1985 Middlesbrough 2-1 Brighton
10.12.1983 Middlesbrough 0-0 Brighton
English Division One (old)
20.04.1982 Middlesbrough 2-1 Brighton
11.04.1981 Middlesbrough 1-0 Brighton
24.11.1979 Middlesbrough 1-1 Brighton
English Division Two (old)
07.04.1973 Middlesbrough 1-1 Brighton
English Division Three (old)
10.12.1966 Middlesbrough 1-0 Brighton
English Division Two (old)
16.03.1962 Middlesbrough 4-0 Brighton
01.10.1960 Middlesbrough 2-2 Brighton
05.12.1959 Middlesbrough 4-1 Brighton
23.08.1958 Middlesbrough 9-0 Brighton

Head-to-head
• Middlesbrough have a 50% winning league record against Brighton, having prevailed in 15, drawn eight and lost seven of 30 meetings.
• The Teesside club have won the last four league and cup meetings, scoring a total of 13 goals in the process.
• This is Brighton's first league game at the Riverside, although they did lose 1-0 there in the League Cup in September 2003.

Middlesbrough
• Fourth placed Middlesbrough are five points below the automatic promotion spots, having avoided defeat in five of their last six.
• Tony Mowbray's club are the draw specialists of the Championship, with eight of their 20 fixtures ending all-square.
• Just over half of their league points (18 of 35), have been gained from matches in which no more than one goal was scored.

Brighton
• Brighton, one place and one point outside the play-offs, are staging a renaissance, having won their last three league games.
• Gus Poyet's side kicked off their first season in six years back at this level with five wins and a draw, then failed the win the next nine, but now they have four wins in five.
• Defeat at the Riverside will make it the Seagulls' seventh loss of this league campaign, equalling their total of the whole of last season's League One title-winning term.

 

[del strangefish]

Poyet says to expect a suprise today.
Surely it's too cold and the ground too hard to risk Vicente?

 

[Driver8]

Poyet says to expect a suprise today.
Surely it's too cold and the ground too hard to risk Vicente?

Perhaps Gus is putting his boots on to show the midfield how it's done?

 

[Acker79]

 

[Everest]

The same result as exactly 28 years ago will do me.

0-0

 

[Questions]

Poyet says to expect a suprise today.

He`s going to attack.

 

[perseus]

Perhaps Gus is putting his boots on to show the midfield how it's done?

Why did not I think of that before ! All problems would be solved.

 

[Triggaaar]

Poyet says to expect a suprise today.

2 shots at goal?

 

[perseus]

Thermal Underwear

Results have improved since our first visit to Middlesbrough. Anybody want to make a graph of the goals conceded at Middlesbrough?

I hope we do better than our visit to Hartlepool last season. I don't think southern clubs should visit the north during the colder months. Its not fair.

 

[Everest]

Results have improved since our first visit to Middlesbrough.

Well they'd be bloody hard pushed for them to get worse!

 

[perseus]

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Preview from them:

Fly: Next game Brighton, a tough game but first of a cluster of home games coming up and surely an opportunity to really get the home form going and pick up a lot of points

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Results have improved since our first visit to Middlesbrough. Anybody want to make a graph of the goals conceded at Middlesbrough?

I hope we do better than our visit to Hartlepool last season. I don't think southern clubs should visit the north during the colder months. Its not fair.

As long as they don't break KLL's leg (and we don't lose) I'll be 'appy.

 

[Butch Willykins]

Perhaps Gus is putting his boots on to show the midfield how it's done?

How good would that be. I bet he's still got it!!!!!

 

[Driver8]

How good would that be. I bet he's still got it!!!!!

You just know he would get sent off though!

 

[del strangefish]

Todays Uninteresting Fact: Win 0-5 and we will go above Middlesborough. (alphabetically)

 

[Driver8]

Todays Uninteresting Fact: Win 0-5 and we will go above Middlesborough. (alphabetically)

3-0 will do it on goal difference.

 

[brunswick]

game is during a full moon eclipse - expect red cards today all over the show.

i predict a 0-2 win.

 

[perseus]

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[KZNSeagull]

2-1 to us. It will not be pretty, but we will win.

 

[perseus]

Fly to the Moon: No Thanks!

game is during a full moon eclipse - expect red cards today all over the show.

i predict a 0-2 win.

Omens are awful with their fanzine name. We need a space cadet.