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4¹ A shot from YARMOLYUK seemed a certain goal but the Chester 'keeper managed to force the ball clear. 13¹ FRIEDL's shot beat SELVIK but rebounded off the Chester woodwork. 13¹ PHILIPP's header was well saved by SELVIK. 14¹ LUCAS SILVA headed over. 15¹ ESTUPIÑÁN whacked a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out. 19¹ GOAL!! As BOUADDI was attempting to hold back FRY the ball dropped to SOLOMON who flicked the ball in off the post. (1-0 Middlesbrough) 20¹ GOAL!! An imaginative MATTHEWS played a wonderful ball down the middle to MOWATT who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-0 Middlesbrough) 27¹ A good ball from PHILIPP on the right bobbled toward SPORAR who sliced his effort over. 36¹ SOLOMON headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 0² BOUADDI worked the ball to VUTOV, ESTUPIÑÁN controlled his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of LUMLEY. 3² A penalty box scramble resulted in PHILIPP cracking a low shot wide. 8² A shot from SOLOMON held little difficulty for SELVIK. 13² The bemused Chester 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from LUCAS SILVA dropped just over. 17² GOAL!! A Chester counter-attack allowed ESTUPIÑÁN to setup BECH with a simple goal. (2-1 Middlesbrough) 20² SOLOMON stroked an easy chance past the righthand post. 21² FRIEDL brought the ball past LUCAS SILVA and stroked a weak shot over. 22² WILLIAMS's shot was well held by the 'keeper. 22² GOAL!! A shot from PHILIPP raced through a crowd of players and trickled past the unsighted SELVIK. (3-1 Middlesbrough) 30² GOAL!! A neat one-two left SPORAR clear and he made no mistake by cleverly chipping the ball past the oncoming 'keeper. (4-1 Middlesbrough) 36² A accurate pass fell to SOLOMON and his right foot shot flew narrowly over. 38² A mix up in the Chester defence enabled FOFANA to hit the ball inches wide. 39² A corner fell to PHILIPP who flicked an effort over the bar. 41² SULEIMANOV beat four Chester players and fired an effort wide. 44² A free-kick from SOLOMON flew wide.

Middlesbrough   League position: 9 Home league form: WXWW Overall league form: WWLXXWWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Joe LUMLEY 7  1 7  Egil SELVIK Hayden MATTHEWS 7  2 6½ Jordan WILLIAMS Marco FRIEDL 8  3 6½ ADRIÁN MARÍN Gómez Yehor YARMOLYUK 8  4 7  Ayyoub BOUADDI Wesley FOFANA 6½ 5 6½ Ahmed HEGAZY Dael FRY 6  6 6½ Mauro COPPOLARO Magomed-Shapi SULEIMANOV 7½ 7 6½ LUCAS SILVA Borges(c) Manor SOLOMON 7  8 6½ Mads BECH (p)Andraz SPORAR 7½ 9 6½ Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN(p) (f)Alex MOWATT 7  10 6  Antonio VUTOV(f) (c)Maximilian PHILIPP 7  11 6½ Kemar ROOFE Manager Marc BOLA    12    Lukas SCHMITZ Benoît COSTIL    13    Lovre KALINIC Yasser LAROUCI    14    LUCAS PIRES Silva Duncan WATMORE    15    Brad HILLS Marcus FORSS    16 6  Jake GARRETT

Chester   League position: 17 Away league form: XLLX Overall league form: WLXLLLWX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Middlesbrough 4 Chester 1 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 39,625, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Colin Webster 7½) Solomon 19¹, Mowatt 20¹, Philipp 22², Sporar 30² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Bech 17²   RoofeóGarrett 17²         3 1 14 12 2 4 8 3 11 2 19 5 3 2 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Marco Friedl ¶