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1¹	A pin-point pass found SMITH ROWE and his right foot shot floated narrowly over.
2¹	A penalty box meleé resulted in STASSIN cracking the ball over.
3¹	WÖBER drove a looping shot wide from long range.
7¹	DAWSON shot over.
11¹	PERIN dived to his right to stop an accurate shot from Arsenal's JOTA.
13¹	GOAL!! A wonderful piece of skill from DAWSON gave TAVERNIER space on the left and ORIGI poked in his accurate pass. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
16¹	A deadly shot from EMBOLO was pushed over by the Arsenal 'keeper.
19¹	CROOKS floated the ball to EMBOLO who fired it inches wide.
24¹	A corner found AINA who touched the ball just beyond the far post.
27¹	GOAL!! After a steady build-up EMBOLO drove the ball past MARTÍNEZ. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
31¹	A useful ball from CORREA on the left was collected by ORIGI who mishit his shot wide.
37¹	A free-kick from WOOD went wide.
39¹	SMITH ROWE beat DAWSON and drove the ball to NUNO TAVARES who pulled his effort wide.
43¹	GOAL!! A nice run by TAVERNIER on the left was capped by a wonderful cross which ORIGI fired home at the near post. (3-0 Middlesbrough)
1²	AINA was put clear by DAWSON and he raced past the 'keeper but glanced his shot over the bar.
7²	DAWSON ran onto a great ball from HOWSON but blasted his shot wide of the goal.
11²	Uncertainty in the Arsenal defence enabled WÖBER to thump an effort just beyond the near post.
13²	SMITH ROWE headed inches over.
15²	GOAL!! A corner flew across the goalmouth and NUNO TAVARES fumbled the ball into his own net. (4-0 Middlesbrough)
17²	The 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from BALOGUN.
22²	A twenty yard shot from CHALOBAH caused the Middlesbrough 'keeper little difficulty.
23²	The motionless 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from XHAKA fell just over.
24²	A cross from HOWSON left TAVERNIER in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
34²	EMBOLO poked an easy chance past the near post.
36²	A tame shot from AINA bounced agonisingly wide.

Middlesbrough

League position:

Home league form:

XXWL

Overall league form:

LLXWXLLW

Formation:

4-3-3

Line-ups

Mattia PERIN	8	1	7	Emiliano MARTÍNEZ^(c)
^(c)Craig DAWSON	7	2	7	Takehiro TOMIYASU
Ola AINA	7	3	6	NUNO Albertino TAVARES
Matt CROOKS	7	4	6½	Granit XHAKA
Maximilian WÖBER	6½	5	6½	Victor LINDELÖF
Nathan WOOD	6½	6	6	Trevoh CHALOBAH
Ángel CORREA	8	7	6½	FÁBIO Daniel VIEIRA
Marcus TAVERNIER	7	8	6	Emile SMITH ROWE
^(p)Breel-Donald EMBOLO	7½	9	7	Folarin BALOGUN^(p)
^(f)Jonny HOWSON	6	10	6½	JOTA^(f)
Divock ORIGI	6½	11	5½	Lucas STASSIN
	Manager
Nathaniel CLYNE		12		MARQUINHOS
Zack STEFFEN		13		Jack BUTLAND
Matthew HOPPE		14		Tyreece JOHN-JULES
Lewis WING		15		Ainsley MAITLAND-NILES
Riley McGREE		16		Reuell WALTERS

Arsenal

League position:

Away league form:

XWLO

Overall league form:

WXWWLLOW

Formation:

4-3-3

Statistics

Middlesbrough 4 Arsenal 0

(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 33,653, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Eddie Ilderton 7½)

Origi 13¹, Embolo 27¹, Origi 43¹, Nuno Tavares 15² (og)

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Possession

55%

45%

¶ Man of the match: Mattia Perin ¶