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Commentary
2¹MAVIDIDI blasted a right foot shot over from thirty yards out.
5¹IMMOBILE rushed a simple chance.
6¹HOWSON headed inches wide.
9¹A free-kick from COOK went wide.
19¹A shot from MAVIDIDI was nodded off the line by MIAZGA.
25¹GOAL!! A long clearance by the Middlesbrough 'keeper beat the Rotherham United defence and HOWSON blasted the ball past the advancing UNNERSTALL. (1-0 Middlesbrough)
27¹LOPES did well to hold onto a powerful strike from LATTE LATH.
30¹A accurate pass fell to SANSONE and his looping shot floated narrowly wide.
33¹A poor foul on BARLASER by FRY results in a booking.
35¹OGBENE rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
37¹ORSIC shot wide.
39¹HOWSON brought the ball round HALL and stroked a weak shot over.
41¹A weak strike from ORSIC trickled agonisingly wide.
0²A twenty yard drive from LATTE LATH caused LOPES little difficulty.
3²GOAL!! After being forced wide SANSONE managed to drive the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (2-0 Middlesbrough)
5²A useful ball from SANSONE on the right fell to IMMOBILE who sliced his shot wide.
6²An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of the Rotherham United 'keeper by IMMOBILE.
11²Uncertainty in the Rotherham United defence enabled IMMOBILE to blast an effort just beyond the far post.
27²A corner was collected by IMMOBILE who fired the ball wide.
35²MAVIDIDI ran onto a wonderful ball from CROOKS but pulled his effort wide of the righthand post.
36²The bemused Rotherham United 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from ORSIC dropped just wide.
46²HALL stabbed a simple chance past the near post.

 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 2
Home league form: WWLW
Overall league form: WWWWLWOW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Anthony LOPES6½17 Lars UNNERSTALL(c)
Marc BOLA7 27½Connor ROBERTS
Mickey VAN DE VEN7 36½Lewis HALL
Lewis COOK6 46½Dan BARLASER
Patrick McNAIR7½57 Matt MIAZGA
Dael FRY6½66 Clark ROBERTSON
Jonny HOWSON6½77½Chiedozie OGBENE
Stephy MAVIDIDI8 86 Mislav ORSIC
(c,p)Ciro IMMOBILE7 96 Emmanuel LATTE LATH(p)
(f)Matt CROOKS7 105½Percy TAU(f)
Nicola SANSONE7½115½Aldo KALULU
Manager
Hayden HACKNEY  12  Grant HALL
Arijanet MURIC  13  Federico RAVAGLIA
Ryan GILES  14  George HIRST
Duncan WATMORE7½15  Tolaji BOLA
George SAVILLE7 16  Peter KIOSO
 
Rotherham United
 
League position: 16
Away league form: LLOL
Overall league form: LWLWLOLO
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Middlesbrough 2 Rotherham United 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 35,058, Stadium: Riverside, Referee: Jirķ Lerch 7½)

Howson 25¹, Sansone 3²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
CookóSaville 0², HowsonóWatmore 4² 
  
Fry 33¹ 
22
614
20
54
125
179
31
59%41%
Man of the match: Stephy Mavididi