Middlesbrough 1 Sunderland 0 Highlights after Riley McGree goal and Ross Stewart injury blow
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Boro’s Riley McGree scored the only goal of the game in the 25th minute when he converted Ryan Giles’ low cross.
Sunderland suffered a big injury blow before the match as top scorer Ross Stewart was forced to withdraw from the starting XI due to an injury.
The Black Cats will now prepare for Saturday’s home game against Millwall.
Here’s how the game played out:
RECAP: Middlesbrough 1 (McGree, 25) Sunderland 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, O’Nien, Batth, Cirkin (Wright, 75), Gooch (Dajaku, 75), Evans, Neil, Clarke, Pritchard (Embleton, 67), Roberts (Amad,67), Simms
- Subs: Bass, Alese, Wright, Matete, Embleton, Dajaku, Amad
- Middlesbrough XI: Roberts, McNair (Dijksteel, 50), Fry, Clarke, Jones, Howson, Mowatt (Bola, 89), Crooks, Giles, McGree (Watmore, 68), Muniz (Smith, 89)
- Subs: Daniels, Dijksteel, Smith, Bola, McGree, Hoppe, Forss
74’ Cirkin down
Cirkin has gone down inside the Sunderland box.
Looks like Bailey Wright and Leon Dajaku are coming on.
72’ Watmore effort saved
That could have been 2-0.
Mowatt slipped the ball through to Watmore whose effort was straight at Patterson.
Crooks was then booked for a foul on Clarke.
67’ First changes for Sunderland
Embleton and Amad are on in place of Roberts and Pritchard.
Duncan Watmore has also replaced McGree for Boro.
63’ Big save from Patterson
Boro will feel they should be more than 1-0 ahead.
Mowatt’s in-swinging cross from the left was headed into the ground by Muniz before Patterson parried the ball away.
Looks like Embleton and Amad are coming on.
56’ Presure from Boro
Boro are starting to cause problems again.
The hosts have just had three corners in a row and went close again when Crooks’ shot deflected wide off Batth.
53’ Better from Simms
The Sunderland striker looked like he was going to run past Fry onto a ball in behind there.
The Boro defender did well to get in front of his man when he was going to be beaten for pace.
50’ McNair can’t continue
McNair tried to carry on but couldn’t, and slammed his boot against the ground after going down again.
Anfernee Dijksteel is on to replace him.