Middlesbrough vs Cardiff City Live Stream, Predictions

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Middlesbrough

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Middlesbrough will be hoping for a better result after the 1-3 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Bristol City.

In that match, Middlesbrough had 58% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Middlesbrough was Dael Fry (80'). Bristol City had 6 shots at goal with 6 on target. Famara Diédhiou (21', 33') and Nahki Wells (37') scored for Bristol City.

Neil Warnock's Middlesbrough have celebrated scoring 7 times over their prior 6 outings. The number of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures is 10.

Coming into this contest, Middlesbrough have not emerged victorious against Cardiff City in their last 5 league games.

Cardiff City

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Cardiff City head into the game after a 1-2 Championship win with the defeat of Bournemouth in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Cardiff City had 32% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Cardiff City, the scorers were Sean Morrison (28') and Kieffer Moore (37'). At the other end, Bournemouth had 11 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Shane Long (68') scored for Bournemouth.

Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Cardiff City have amassed a tally of 15 goals. The Bluebirds have also scored in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 3 goals go against them.

Coming into this contest, Cardiff City remain undefeated by Middlesbrough when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes stretching back to 23/02/2016 shows that Middlesbrough have won 1 of them and Cardiff City 4, with the tally of draws being 1.

In all, 13 goals were produced between them in this period, with 5 of them for The Boro and 8 coming from The Bluebirds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league meeting between these sides was Championship match day 7 on 24/10/2020 which ended up with the score at Cardiff City 1-1 Middlesbrough.

On that occasion, Cardiff City managed 58% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Sheyi Ojo (70').

Middlesbrough got 10 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. George Saville (36') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by John Brooks.

🗞️ Team News: Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough manager Neil Warnock has no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game thanks to a fully healthy group available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Cardiff City

Thanks to a largely available group, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Cardiff City gaffer Mick McCarthy to be concerned about. Sol Bamba (Cancer) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Cardiff City will have to work hard as a team to get anything against this Middlesbrough outfit who we reckon will score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We’ve gone for a narrow 1-0 advantage for Middlesbrough at the end of this one.

Hoping for a good game.

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Peter Guest, 00:18 23/02/2021