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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 2 (setup 1, season 25)
Tranmere Rovers
v.
Middlesbrough
Formation:
4-3-3
Overall form:
Home form:
Mihai GHERASIM516Tim HOWARD
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
FELIPE Dias da Silva dal Belo72Damien DUFF
Aleksandar IGNJOVSKI638Kieran RICHARDSON
RUBÉN Salvador PÉREZ del Marmol4Matthew LOWTON
Jan KIRCHHOFF75Gareth McAULEY
Marek SUCHÝ6Fraizer CAMPBELL
Aleksandr SAMEDOV7Michael ESSIEN
Yuri ZHIRKOV786Marc WILSON
Tomás NECID97Peter CROUCH
Niko KRANJCAR6106Jon WALTERS
EDUARDO Alves da Silva611Landon DONOVAN
ManagerDavid Spears-Gellar
Dmitri SYCHEV12Rhys WILLIAMS
Mladen PETRIC13Sam JOHNSTONE
Nathan STANTON14Jed WALLACE
Rob HALL15Matthew ETHERINGTON
16Luke WILLIAMS

Tranmere Rovers 2 Middlesbrough 4
(Half-time: 0-3, Attendance: 31,801, Stadium: Prenton Park, Referee: Aris GALANOPOULOS 7)
50p Necid, 59 ZhirkovScorers4 Duff, 30 Duff, 32 Campbell, 70 Crouch
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
6Corners8
12Fouls25
7Offsides19
8Shots on4
4Shots off8
12Total shots12
6Shots saved0
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Kieran RICHARDSON
4GOAL!! An energetic WALTERS ran down the wing and dragged the ball back for DUFF to flick home. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
7A penalty box scramble resulted in CAMPBELL knocking the ball over.
13A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
24A header from ZHIRKOV was booted off the line by LOWTON.
27WILSON dribbled past KIRCHHOFF and stroked a poor shot well wide.
30GOAL!! On the right wing WILSON collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for DUFF to slide it into the net. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
32GOAL!! A DONOVAN run down the right resulted in a nice cross for CAMPBELL to volley in. (3-0 Middlesbrough)
33A deadly shot from NECID was clawed past the post by HOWARD.
34A corner fell to DUFF who turned the ball inches over.
35A good ball from FELIPE on the right found SAMEDOV who scuffed his effort wide.
39A mix up in the Middlesbrough defence enabled KRANJCAR to fire the ball wide.
 
46The hapless Tranmere Rovers 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SAMEDOV fell just wide.
49KRANJCAR was put clear by FELIPE and he turned the 'keeper but struck his shot inches wide.
50GOAL!! Tranmere Rovers were awarded a penalty after a foul on KRANJCAR, and NECID put it past the Middlesbrough 'keeper sending him the wrong way.
51A good effort from CAMPBELL scraped the woodwork.
55A poor strike from WILSON trickled agonisingly wide.
59GOAL!! A long ball from SUCHÝ had the Middlesbrough defence back-pedalling and ZHIRKOV made the most of the opportunity with a good goal. (3-2 Middlesbrough)
65EDUARDO booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
70GOAL!! A long clearance by the Middlesbrough 'keeper beat the Tranmere Rovers defence and CROUCH thundered the ball beyond the oncoming 'keeper. (4-2 Middlesbrough)
71ZHIRKOV worked the ball to RUBÉN PÉREZ, NECID latched onto his cross and headed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
73HOWARD stopped a clever shot from KIRCHHOFF.
78WILSON beat two Tranmere Rovers players and thundered a golden opportunity over the bar.
84A wonderful save prevented IGNJOVSKI from scoring an exceptional goal.
88CAMPBELL scuffed a simple chance.