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Fixtures
Middlesbrough
Sunderland
Middlesbrough
Sunderland
+ Middlesbrough's Strengths
+ Sunderland's Strengths
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Protecting the lead
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Strong
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- Middlesbrough's Weaknesses
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Finishing scoring chances
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Weak
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Defending set pieces
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Weak
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Avoiding fouling in dangerous areas
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Weak
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Defending against long shots
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Weak
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Defending against through ball attacks
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Weak
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- Sunderland's Weaknesses
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Keeping possession of the ball
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Weak
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Finishing scoring chances
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Weak
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Stopping opponents from creating chances
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Weak
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Defending against attacks down the wings
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Weak
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Defending set pieces
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Weak
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Avoiding fouling in dangerous areas
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Weak
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Defending against skillful players
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Weak
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Defending against long shots
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Very Weak
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Defending against through ball attacks
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Very Weak
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Middlesbrough's Style
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Attacking down the right
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Take long shots
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Play with width
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Aggressive
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Playing in their own half
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Rotate their first eleven
Sunderland's Style
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Take a lot of shots
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Play with width
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Attacking down the left
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Take long shots
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Long balls
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Playing in their own half
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Aggressive
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Match Forecast
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David Moyes, I hope you are reading. It doesn't matter if you lose by 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 or 1. ATTACK. Stop adopting defensive structure with the objective being to keep a clean sheet. Set your teams up to SCORE GOALS . If you don't have the flair and ability on the break to use a sound defensive structure and score goals then your team is on a hiding to nothing and the footballing equivalent of having your laces tied together.
@Yes Why do you comment on every post? Surely you can't watch every match. To be fair to Sunderland they did have a go. Moyes doesn't set his teams up to defend, he can't now or they'll go down
@SethTrollins Wrong twice. If this is what you considering to be having properly a go then you don't understand football. You have to expose yourself more to counter attacks and throw more men forward. Again you are incorrect. Moyes is still setting his sides up with the intention of trying to scrape a 1-0 win. This is a negative strategy.
@Yes Bloody hell, you tell a lot of people they don't understand football. I think you'll find I do. I watched the match. My point is what makes you think Moyes is going for a draw? He has to go for it and Sunderland did, leading themselves open at times and even when there wasn't much happening their defence was poor, so they clearly just have a crap defence. Did you watch the match? You commented on the Arsenal match like you watched that too, you can only watch one. If your answer is no, then you can't say Sunderland played a negative style of football.
middlesbrough win
First HT draw (0:0)
0-1