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A second for Flemming in the 49th minute. 🙁
Zian Flemming in the fifth minute! 🙁
The bookies' odds for the next managerial appointment courtesy of The Sunderland Echo: Some extraordinary possibilities!
Five minutes of injury time, but no sucker punch, thank God!
Vic's comment: McGree [on for Hackney] ball in from left, nodded goalwards by Muniz, bounces back off the bar and Forss stabs home the rebound - but...
Bugger! Second goal, scored by Forss, on as a sub for Akpom, from a Muniz pass, is chalked off for offside. 🙁
Boro up to 17th as things stand at the moment. Lots of 1s & 0s in the Champo scores at the moment. Dying to see Boro's 1 change to a 2.
Boro a goal up after 23 minutes - Akpom, assisted by Muniz.
Steve Cooper staying at Forest, according to a Beeb report: after it was decided he should be given more time in recognition of his achievement i...
The Beeb has now:
1-0 to Coventry at full time. So much for a "must-not-lose" set-up! *shakes head*
Paddy replaces Dijksteel in the 76th minute.
Giles on for Clarke & Jones for Smith in the 55th minute...
A comment on the team selection: Why drop Giles? Jones fair enough. McGree fair enough. Giles though. Makes no sense at all.
Akpom on for Watmore at the start of the second half.
Subsequently added by one fan replying to Vic: They don’t have to be any great shakes! That’s the major worry Made me smile at the wit & grima...
Vic's summary of the first half: HT: 0-1. Lack-lustre. Flat-footed at the back for Cov goal, which came from sloppy Boro throw. Cov have dominated, ...
@werdermouth I see that Akpom is on the bench.
The starting XI this evening:
Muniz bags his first goal for Boro in the fourth minutes, ably assisted by a cross from Ryan Giles. 🙂 *pray*
...but is on the bench.
Still no Steffen in goal:
after EIGHT official minutes of injury time, but ten more like, & three more yellow cards for the collection, for Robets, Jones & Lenihan!
The Swans pull one back in the 79th minute: penalty awarded for a questionable (according to Vic) handball by Lenihan, converted by Joël Piroe. 🙁
Further comment by Vic : Boro look solid at the back (Clarke adding some balance?) and are breaking quickly. Some excellent searching passes out to ...
Vic's assessment of the first half: Polished Boro good value for their lead. Two well-worked goals plus a few moments a fraction away from adding mo...
Crooks hmself get in on the act to make it 2-0 in the 30th minute. 🙂 From the Beeb text commentary : ... right-footed shot from very close range ...
As Vic saw it: McGee [sic] clinically slots home past a rooted keeper after latching on to a well-weighted through ball by Matt Crooks.
McGree gives Boro the lead in the 14th minute with a little help from Matt Crooks. Now, can they build on that/prevent a Swans reply: *prays*
Starting XI: Change of 'keeper - Steffen not even on the bench. Crooks back. Clarke starts, with Muniz on the bench.