After the 2-0 win over Queens Park Rangers last Saturday Gordon Strachan will be looking to grab another victory to take into the Newcastle United game next week. Cardiff City are having a good season and currently sit in the last Play-Off position with 49 points ahead of the likes of Blackpool, ourselves and Sheffield United.
Boro hosted the Bluebirds at the Riverside in December last year and lost out by a single goal scored by Cardiff’s Chris Burke so the return fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium will be a chance for the Middlesbrough players to grab revenge and try to leap-frog Dave Jones’ men in the table.
Emanuel Pogatetz and Scott McDonald remain doubtful for the game with knee injuries and hernia problems respectively and are rated at 50/50 for the trip to South Wales tomorrow. Both will face late fitness tests but if either, or both, fail Strachan has options at the ready to come in and replace the injured duo.
Reading a few of the Cardiff fan pages this afternoon have revealed that they are currently experiencing a few injuries in their squad and, looking at the recent names added to the treatment table, it seems that they will be without a few of their first-team players for the match.
Peter Whittingham and Mark Kennedy will be missing which is a massive boost for Boro with both being very important to Cardiff’s excellent run this season.
We have lost our last two away games in the Championship and have failed to score in those defeats so it will be an intriguing match but has draw written all over it.
I would love to see Boro put a couple past Cardiff tomorrow without reply but I’m concerned about our away form recently so will settle for a draw which would maintain an unbeaten run going into the Newcastle game next week.
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We have to be at our best tomorrow to get a result but I’m not sure what our best is?! Whittingham being out is a blow for them, he has ben their main man all season. Fingers crossed we see our boys put in a good shift for the travelling supporters. I say draw as well.
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a win in Wales tomorrow will set us up nicely for the Newcastle game. If Strachan can get four points from the next two games we have a massive opportunity of cementing a play off position. Big game tomorrow. Saying that all the games from now until the end of the season are big. Up the Boro!
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