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Commentary
A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Middlesbrough 'keeper.
ELLIOT managed to palm clear an amazing shot.
13¹GOAL!! A cross from the right was flicked down by SOILEDIS for STUANI to score. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
16¹A lovely effort from VARELA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
17¹POPE was put clear by CIANI and he turned GUZAN but glanced his shot wide.
21¹A pin-point pass fell to HOWSON and his right foot shot floated narrowly wide.
25¹A shot from FISCHER was kicked off the line by SINI.
27¹SAVIOLA rushed a simple chance.
29¹CIANI fired the ball through a ruck of players but GUZAN was a match for it as he dived to his left.
31¹POPE's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Middlesbrough woodwork.
31¹BAMFORD knocked the ball to NEGREDO who flicked it just wide.
VARELA headed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
11²A corner fell to VARELA who headed the ball wide.
20²FISCHER drilled a looping shot wide from close range.
25²VARELA's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
27²POPE ran onto a wonderful ball from JURADO but dragged his shot wide.
32²An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of GUZAN by VARELA.
34²SAVIOLA beat GIBSON and fired the ball to POPE who hit his effort wide.
36²A free-kick from POPE went wide.
38²HOWSON made space on the right and knocked the ball to STUANI who touched the ball wide.
40²The 'keeper was able to block a tame shot from POPE.
41²A weak strike from STUANI rolled agonisingly wide.

 
Port Vale
 
League position: 6
Home league form: WWWX
Overall league form: WLWXWLOX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Rob ELLIOT1Brad GUZAN
Mickaël CIANI2Tomás KALAS
Juan ZÚÑIGA3George FRIEND
José JURADO4Nuri SAHIN
DANIEL Filipe CARRICO5Ben GIBSON
Simone SINI6Aristidis SOILEDIS
Daniel BRINKMANN7Jonny HOWSON
Silvestre VARELA8Viktor FISCHER
(p)Tom POPE9Christian STUANI(c,p)
(f)Isaiah BROWN10Álvaro NEGREDO(f)
(c)Javier SAVIOLA11Patrick BAMFORD
Manager
Luke McCULLOUGH  12  Michelangelo ALBERTAZZI
Thomas KAMINSKI  13  Marten DE ROON
Somen TCHOYI14  Adama TRAORÉ
Adam MATUSZCZYK  15  Gastón RAMÍREZ
Joe DAVIS  16KIKE
 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 17
Away league form: LLWL
Overall league form: LWLLLWLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Middlesbrough go through to the next round
Statistics
Port Vale 0 Middlesbrough 1
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 19,725, Stadium: Vale Park, Referee: Gylfi Orrason 6)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Stuani 13¹
ZúñigaóTchoyi 20²SoiledisóKike 6²
  
  
42
178
33
74
128
1912
73
51%49%
Man of the match: Nuri Sahin