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Middlesbrough and Liverpool play at Riverside Stadium in a 16th round Barclays Premier League duel. There is only one recent direct showdown between these two teams on 23-09-2014, which ended with Liverpool’s (14-13) victory in the tie-breaker.
Middlesbrough
The home team is currently in 14th place with 16 points earned after 3 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses. In the penultimate match, he won at home to Hull City by (1-0). In the last match, lost out to Southampton by (1-0). For the championship, Middlesbrough won 7 points in 21 chances, after 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses in their last 7 games at their stadium. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 games in this competition. In his home matches there is a tendency towards few goals, since in 15 of the last 23 that played there were less than 3 goals. In 15 games in the competition, he never managed to turn the scoring in the 6 games in which he suffered the first goal.
Middlesbrough are back at home for the English Premier League after losing once again to their last four games away from home. In the last round, the team went to the home of Southampton and left there defeated by 1×0. Before, the team had returned to win when receiving the Hull City at home and leave the field with the victory by 1×0. After fifteen rounds, the club has three wins, six draws and six defeats, thus taking the sixteenth place in the table. For that game, the coach should keep the team in 4-3-3.
Liverpool
After 9 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, the visiting team is in 3rd place, having won 31 points. In the last match, they drew with West Ham at home (2-2), after their previous match had lost out in a game against Bournemouth (4-3). In the league, Liverpool had 14 points in 24 chances, after 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses in their last eight away games. The team has conceded goals in 7 of their last 10 games, so they have not shown great defensive solidity, but their attack has been regularly marked, as they managed to achieve in 8 of the last 10 games in this competition. There is a tendency to have goals in their away games, because 7 of the last 8 matches that played for this competition ended with over 1.5 goals.
Liverpool enter the field for their tenth English League game after another unbeaten start to the season, failing to recover from their defeat in the penultimate round when they faced Bournemouth away from home and was beaten 4-2, So a sequence of eleven games without losing. In the last round, the team received West Ham at home and managed to leave the field with the tie in 2×2. After fifteen rounds, the club has nine wins, four draws and two defeats, taking third place in the table. For that match, the coach must keep the team in 4-3-3.
Prediction: over 2.5 goals @ 1.81