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Commentary
0¹IMMOBILE ran onto a great ball from HOWSON but blasted his shot wide.
15¹HOWSON beat two Birmingham City players and blasted a great chance just wide.
19¹GOAL!! A short clearance fell to COOK who sliced a shot goalward, luckily IMMOBILE was on hand to crack the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
23¹CROOKS beat ZAKARIA and placed the ball to MAVIDIDI who hit his shot wide.
24¹GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was expertly drove into the back of the net by IMMOBILE. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
31¹McNALLY's shot beat the Middlesbrough 'keeper but rebounded off the Middlesbrough woodwork.
34¹The 'keeper managed to block an amazing effort.
37¹A lovely effort from IMMOBILE scraped the outside of the righthand post.
41¹IMMOBILE poked a simple chance past the far post.
3²The hapless Middlesbrough 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from MAVIDIDI dropped just over.
5²GOAL!! A nice run by HØJBJERG on the left was capped by a wonderful cross which ZAKARIA nodded home at the near post. (2-1 Middlesbrough)
10²IMMOBILE was put clear by HOWSON and he beat OKOYE but struck his shot wide.
12²GOAL!! MAVIDIDI made space for IMMOBILE who, after an interchange of passes just outside the area, struck the ball past the Birmingham City 'keeper. (3-1 Middlesbrough)
14²FREY headed wide.
14²HØJBJERG made space on the right and touched the ball to BUREY who rasped the ball over.
19²A penalty box meleé resulted in HOWSON driving the ball wide.
21²A corner was collected by MAVIDIDI who flicked the ball wide.
31²GOAL!! A neat one-two left ARMSTRONG clear and he made no mistake by cleverly drifting the ball beyond the oncoming MURIC. (3-2 Middlesbrough)
34²A weak shot from FREY trickled agonisingly wide.
36²FREY kicked the ball wide of the righthand post from just inside the area.
38²GOAL!! A tackle from LONGELO gave Middlesbrough a free-kick thirty yards out which IMMOBILE stroked past the Birmingham City 'keeper. (4-2 Middlesbrough)
46²MURIC dived to his right to save an accurate drive from Birmingham City's McNALLY.

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 1
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWLWWW--
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Arijanet MURIC6 16½Maduka OKOYE
Lamare BOGARDE7 25½Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
Omar ALDERETE7 36½Emmanuel LONGELO
Lewis COOK7½46½Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG
Patrick McNAIR7½57 Luke McNALLY
Dael FRY6 66 Tin PLAVOTIC
Jonny HOWSON7½76 Tyler BUREY
Stephy MAVIDIDI6 87 Indiana VASSILEV
(c,p)Ciro IMMOBILE6½96 Michael FREY(p)
(f)Matt CROOKS7 106 Denis ZAKARIA(f)
Nicola SANSONE7 116½Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Nelson ABBEY  12  Jordan JAMES
Hayden HACKNEY  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Marc BOLA  14  Ivan SUNJIC
ARNAU PUIGMAL Martínez  15  Josh McEACHRAN
Duncan WATMORE  16  George HALL
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 14
Away league form: LXWL
Overall league form: LLXWWL--
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 4 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 34,981, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Jirí Lerch 6)

Immobile 19¹, Immobile 24¹, Immobile 12², Immobile 38²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Zakaria 5², Armstrong 31²
  
  
  
05
213
22
74
136
2010
32
56%44%
Man of the match: Jonny Howson