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4¹ LUKAKU booted the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 6¹ A tame shot from LUKAKU rolled agonisingly wide. 10¹ RODRIGO MUNIZ flicked an easy chance past the far post. 11¹ A great shot from CROOKS was dealt with by a fine parry from the Chelsea 'keeper. 13¹ GOAL!! An inswinging corner was headed clear only for TRIPPIER to hit the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Chelsea) 19¹ GOAL!! A neatly crafted set-piece enabled FRY to slide the ball into the back of the net. (1-1) 19¹ A pin-point pass was collected by LUKAKU and his left foot effort raced narrowly wide. 21¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in BRAITHWAITE cracking the ball wide. 22¹ A corner was collected by MORATA who fired an effort just beyond the near post. 25¹ JONES beat KOVACIC and placed the ball to RODRIGO MUNIZ who fired his shot wide. 26¹ GOAL!! A deep corner left the 'keeper struggling and KERKEZ stabbed the ball into the net. (2-1 Middlesbrough) 31¹ A high foul gets HUDSON-ODOI a yellow card. 32¹ BRAITHWAITE chipped the ball to CROOKS who forced it just beyond the far post. 42¹ A cross from HUDSON-ODOI left LUKAKU in lots of space but he fluffed his shot. 1² A free-kick from LUKAKU flew wide. 3² GOAL!! A cross from TRIPPIER was touched away by KRAFTH only for MADUEKE to fire the ball back into the box for HUDSON-ODOI to force over the line. (2-2) 7² HUDSON-ODOI fluffed an easy chance. 10² KOVACIC waltzed round CROOKS and rattled a weak shot past the post. 26² BRAITHWAITE made space on the left and touched the ball to NMECHA who clipped the ball wide. 27² JONES ran onto a delightful ball from BRAITHWAITE but blasted his shot wide of the righthand post. 33² A useful ball from FRY on the right was collected by YUNUS who mishit his shot just beyond the near post. 39² RODRIGO MUNIZ was put clear by JONES and he turned the Chelsea 'keeper but struck his shot wide.

Middlesbrough   League position: 4 Home league form: WXWL Overall league form: WLXWLLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Daniel BACHMANN 6  1 6½ Marcin BULKA Emil KRAFTH 7½ 2 7½ Kieran TRIPPIER Milos KERKEZ 7  3 6  Dylan WILLIAMS Matt CROOKS 6½ 4 7½ Mateo KOVACIC Maxime ESTÈVE 7  5 7½ THIAGO Emiliano SILVA(c) Dael FRY 6  6 6  Cesar AZPILICUETA YUNUS Akgün 6½ 7 7  Noni MADUEKE (c)Martin BRAITHWAITE 5½ 8 6  Callum HUDSON-ODOI (p)RODRIGO MUNIZ Carvalho 7  9 7  Romelu LUKAKU(p) (f)Isaiah JONES 5½ 10 6  Álvaro MORATA(f) Lukas NMECHA 6  11 7  Timo WERNER Manager Daniel AYALA    12    Olivier GIROUD Zack STEFFEN    13    Gabriel SLONINA James LEA SILIKI    14    Denis ZAKARIA Jonny HOWSON    15    Hakim ZIYECH Tom SMITH    16    Malang SARR

Chelsea   League position: 3 Away league form: XWWW Overall league form: XWWWWWWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Middlesbrough 2 Chelsea 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 39,875, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Kevin Wright 6) Fry 19¹, Kerkez 26¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Trippier 13¹, Hudson-Odoi 3²           Hudson-Odoi 31¹ 7 3 14 10 16 9 6 4 10 15 16 19 4 2 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Kieran Trippier ¶