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Middlesbrough has many things on his mind, and of those things is the FA Cup may be the lowest priority. Especially if the opponent is Manchester City.
Middlesbrough vs Manchester City Prediction & Betting tips
Middlesbrough :
In season 2012/2013 knew Wigan Athletic to win the FA Cup and degrade in the same year in the Premier League. An unprecedented success coupled with a huge disappointment. There will be few teams who aspire to the same. Wigan Athletic has hit namely never recovered and relegated in the season 2014/2015 even to League One. Meanwhile Wigan playing in the Championship, but is it relegated again. If Middlesbrough choose, so they will probably prefer to win in the Premier League remain the FA Cup.
Middlesbrough last weekend lost 2-0 at Stoke City and so is getting deeper into trouble. The crisis is mainly caused by lack of goals, and that was against Stoke again painfully clear. Alvaro Negredo had to sit on the bench and Rudy Gestede took his place, but also the January acquisition did not score. He stood there a little lost and was completely isolated from the midfield. The injury and the lack of such defender Daniel Ayala leads Middlesbrough Defensive no longer be male condition, but it just on the basis of his points, gathered together in the first half of the season.
Premier League Middlesbrough but does not know to score, but the FA Cup is going to be a little better. Altogether made Middlesbrough FA seven goals in three games, but the opposition was not of great quality: Sheffield Wednesday, Accrington Stanley and Oxford United. But Middlesbrough could well achieve a result against City; Earlier this season, had already Boro a 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium.
Probable lineup Middlesbrough
Guzan, Fabio Bernardo, Gibson, Friend, Leadbitter, De Roon, Forshaw, Traoré, Negredo, Fischer
Manchester City :
With eleven games scheduled back for Manchester City is on leader Chelsea ten points. That title City can therefore forget, but Guardiola was a while ago already thrown the towel in the ring. City can now focus on the FA Cup and the Champions League. In the latter tournament is Wednesday again the match against AS Monaco in the program, so City can not afford too much effort. A make-up game in the FA Cup has been out of the question.
Wednesday Manchester City played at home against Stoke City. The first half had little to much and most likely was even for Stoke City. In the second half City put more pressure which resulted in some good chances, but nobody could find the target. The match ended in a 0-0 draw.
Guardiola made a conscious decision not to rotate too much and as well as his best eleven to send in the field. He left David Silva on the bench, something he probably would have regretted it as City lacked the necessary creativity. It is still unclear where Guardiola for going to choose at Middlesbrough. In previous matches, he gave some young players a chance, but now it seems the Premier League off the table, the FA Cup a serious price to go for.
Probable formation Manchester City
Bravo, Zabaleta, Stones, Kompany, Clichy, Fernandinho, Fernando Navas, Silva, Sterling, Iheanacho
Middlesbrough vs Manchester City head to head
05.11.16 PL Manchester City Middlesbrough 1 : 1
24.01.15 FAC Manchester City Middlesbrough 0 : 2
02.01.10 FAC Middlesbrough Manchester City 0 : 1
07.02.09 PL Manchester City Middlesbrough 1 : 0
29.10.08 PL Middlesbrough Manchester City 2 : 0