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Commentary
ZACCARDO ran onto a delightful ball from SANTI CAZORLA but hit his shot wide of the goal.
A twenty-five yard drive from PIZARRO caused the Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper little difficulty.
A 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)
BRITTON booked for violent conduct.
FONT waltzed away from BUTTNER and rattled a poor shot well wide.
An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the 'keeper by SHARP.
A penalty box scramble resulted in ZACCARDO cracking the ball over.
GOAL!! 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 SANCTIS1Bogdan LOBONT
Cristian ZACCARDO2Paul LINWOOD
Adam REACH3Alexander BUTTNER
Pablo AIMAR4KI Sung-yong
Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK5Brian STOCK
Craig DAWSON6Leon BRITTON
Héctor FONT7John SUTTON
SANTI CAZORLA8Stephen HUNT
(p)Roman PAVLYUCHENKO9Mauro BOSELLI(p)
(f)Claudio PIZARRO10Billy SHARP(c,f)
Javier SAVIOLA11Giorgos 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