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Commentary
2¹ZACCARDO ran onto a delightful ball from SANTI CAZORLA but hit his shot wide of the goal.
4¹A twenty-five yard drive from PIZARRO caused the Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper little difficulty.
6¹A pin-point pass found FONT and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.
16¹SAMARAS worked the ball to SUTTON, BOSELLI collected his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of DE SANCTIS.
22¹A mix up in the Rushden&Diamonds defence enabled PAVLYUCHENKO to crack an effort over the bar.
24¹GOAL!! A strike from ZACCARDO which LOBONT managed to claw away was deemed over the line and the ref awarded the goal. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
29¹PAVLYUCHENKO made space on the left and knocked the ball to ZACCARDO who fired the ball over.
32¹ZACCARDO rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
33¹A strike from HUNT held little difficulty for DE SANCTIS.
39¹The 'keeper dived to his right to block an accurate drive from Rushden&Diamonds's KI.
40¹SANTI CAZORLA fluffed an easy chance.
46¹GOAL!! A mishit SUTTON shot bobbled toward BOSELLI who made no mistake from just inside the area. (1-1)
3²BRITTON booked for violent conduct.
6²FONT waltzed away from BUTTNER and rattled a poor shot well wide.
7²An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the 'keeper by SHARP.
7²A penalty box scramble resulted in ZACCARDO cracking the ball over.
8²GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was skillfully fired into the top corner by PAVLYUCHENKO. (2-1 Middlesbrough)
12²A header by PAVLYUCHENKO at the near post was easily collected by LOBONT.
16²A corner bobbled toward SANTI CAZORLA who forced the ball wide.
29²PIZARRO beat three Rushden&Diamonds players and stroked a golden opportunity wide.
42²A good ball from SAMARAS on the left fell to HUNT who scuffed his shot over the bar.
43²The motionless Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from BUTTNER fell just over.

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 1
Home league form: WWWX
Overall league form: XWWWWXWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Morgan DE SANCTIS7½16½Bogdan LOBONT
Cristian ZACCARDO8 25½Paul LINWOOD
Adam REACH6½36½Alexander BUTTNER
Pablo AIMAR8½46½KI Sung-yong
Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK8 56 Brian STOCK
Craig DAWSON7 66 Leon BRITTON
Héctor FONT7½75½John SUTTON
SANTI CAZORLA8 86 Stephen HUNT
(p)Roman PAVLYUCHENKO8 96½Mauro BOSELLI(p)
(f)Claudio PIZARRO6½105½Billy SHARP(c,f)
Javier SAVIOLA7 116½Giorgos SAMARAS
Manager
Matty FRYATT  12  Sylvain ARMAND
Tim KRUL  13  Alan JULIAN
Jack HOBBS  14  Jake LIVERMORE
Leon CLARKE  15  Tom ELLIOTT
Rey VOLPATO  16  Andrew TAYLOR
 
Rushden&Diamonds
 
League position: 7
Away league form: XXLL
Overall league form: XWWXLWLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 2 Rushden&Diamonds 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 39,916, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Rui Carlos Madureira 7½)

Zaccardo 24¹, Pavlyuchenko 8²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Boselli 46¹
  
  
 Britton 3²
12
919
66
87
122
209
55
62%38%
Man of the match: Pablo Aimar