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Commentary
A cross from TAVERNIER left ORIGI in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
TAVERNIER's shot beat OLSEN but rebounded off the Aston Villa woodwork.
The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from TAVERNIER fell just over.
10¹ORIGI made space on the right and touched the ball to HOWSON who fired the ball over.
11¹TARGETT fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Middlesbrough 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
13¹A great effort from AINA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
26¹CROOKS dribbled round WAN-BISSAKA and flicked a weak shot wide.
28¹A poor foul gets DIER a yellow card.
30¹GOAL!! After HOWSON was pulled to the ground CLATTENBURG waved play-on and EMBOLO went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
32¹A tame strike from EMBOLO bounced agonisingly wide.
38¹GOAL!! A HOWSON run down the left resulted in a nice cross for CORREA to tap in. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
40¹BAILEY headed over the bar.
45¹A penalty box scramble resulted in BAILEY driving the ball over.
GOAL!! BAILEY hit a glorious twenty-five yard shot past the stunned Middlesbrough 'keeper. (2-1 Middlesbrough)
EMBOLO knocked the ball to HOWSON who flicked it inches over.
15²A shot from DAVIS was nodded off the line by AINA.
21²TAVERNIER rattled an easy chance past the righthand post.
24²TAVERNIER shot wide.
26²A header by DAVIS at the near post was comfortably collected by the Middlesbrough 'keeper.
28²WÖBER fired a deadly shot just wide from just outside the area.
42²Uncertainty in the Middlesbrough defence enabled PHILOGENE to blast the ball wide.
44²A pin-point pass was collected by HOWSON and his looping effort went narrowly wide.

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 15
Home league form: WWXX
Overall league form: XWLLWLLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Mattia PERIN1Robin OLSEN
(c)Craig DAWSON2Aaron WAN-BISSAKA
Ola AINA3Matt TARGETT
Matt CROOKS4DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares
Maximilian WÖBER5Eric DIER(c)
Nathan WOOD6Tyrone MINGS
Ángel CORREA7Boubacar KAMARA
Marcus TAVERNIER8Leon BAILEY
(p)Breel-Donald EMBOLO9Keinan DAVIS(p)
(f)Jonny HOWSON10Jacob RAMSEY(f)
Divock ORIGI11Jaden PHILOGENE
Manager
Nathaniel CLYNE  12  Calum CHAMBERS
Zack STEFFEN  13  Viljami SINISALO
Matthew HOPPE  14  Harry SOUTTAR
Lewis WING  15  Josh LAURENT
Riley McGREE  16Ziyad LARKÈCHE
 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 14
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: LXLWLLOL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 2 Aston Villa 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 34,988, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Mark Clattenburg 7½)

Embolo 30¹, Correa 38¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Bailey 2²
 MingsóLarkèche 25²
  
 Dier 28¹
45
1210
26
54
137
1811
33
52%48%
Man of the match: Leon Bailey