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The Auxerrois lead 1-0 thanks to a penalty in the 40th minute conceded by HH, who had been booked five minutes earlier! 🙁
Craig Johns' thoughts: "A strong Boro team That XI is, as things stand, the XI you'd expect to start next week against Millwall.Nothing, that we k...
Team news for the match agaisnt Auxerre: Starting XI: Dieng, McNair, Fry, Lenihan, Coulson, Hackney, Barlaser, Forss, Crooks, McGree, Rogers Subs:...
Boro's turn to equalise & they could hardly have left it much later: the Bantams took the lead through Platt in the 58th minute & Nkrumah put...
2-2 at half-time (Silvera in the 5th minute & Gilbert in the 29th [penalty - Jones tripped by a certain Smallwood] for Boro, with Cook equalising ...
And that's how it finished - & at the cost of yet another injury (Tommy Smith):
0-1 after 64 minutes. 🙁
Gazette report on the 0-0 final score:
Report by The Echo:
Finished 1-2. No idea who got the Boro goal (in injury time).
Boro 0-2 after 50 minutes....
Trafford certainly showed his class in saving a penalty & then the rebound to ensure that the England U21s win the final! Burnley lucky to have h...
Thanks, KP. Just a footnote: the U21 keeper is James Trafford, who has yet to concede a goal, but he's apparently going to Burnley...
I see that Cameron Archer came on in the 74th minute for the England U21s in the Euro SF aginst Israel & scored in the 90th minute to seal a 3-0 v...
And bloody Dyche in charge!
Jones booked in the 83rd minute, Crooks on for Paddy in the 88th. Crooks has a goal disallowed for offside almost immediately. EIGHT minutes of inju...
Barlaser, Jones & Dijksteel on for Mowatt, Forss & Smith in the 67th minute, Lenihan booked for bringing down Gyökeres in the 68th.
First blood to Coventry: Hamer in the 57th minute. 🙁
Somehow managed to post these in the first Coventry thread (*redface*): 1) And the first booking goes to Tommy Smith in the 16th minute! 2) Fr...
The second to Paddy in the 41st - the Beeb: I think this is what you'd call taking one for the team. Viktor Gyökeres cleverly allows the ball to r...
Frim the Beeb's text commentary: They've been their own worst enemy again here, Middlesbrough. Zach Steffen's pass out is poor and Tommy Smith has...
And the first booking goes to Tommy Smith in the 16th minute! 🙁
So, it'll be Luton at Wembley - IF we get there too...
I wasn't aware of that, Len, so thanks for pointing it out. Agree about his obnoxiousness. I'll echo the welcome back to Si. 🙂
Better late than never: the preview of play-off semi-final from Saturday's Times: Some interesting comments. At the end of the report on the f...
There's a sort of foretaste of that in the headline of the Times report on Sunday's match which I posted in the other thread yesterday, FD: "... Mich...
The Times' view of the match:
Vic's brief assessment of the match: FT 0-0. Boro bossed first half & had best chances in a very tight game. Kept a tight grip on Cov attack...
Forss replaces Jones in the 68th minute, Crooks on for Archer in the 83rd.
Akpom's name goes into the ref's book in the 79th minute - "bad foul", according to the Beeb.