Middlesbrough vs Bristol City betting preview

Competition: England Championship
Date: Tue 02.April
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Riverside Stadium (34988 seats)

Middlesbrough and Bristol City are both riding high in the Championship with their 8th and 7th positions respectively. Expect a great game!

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Middlesbrough and Bristol City. It's quite the trip for Bristol City when visiting Middlesbrough as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.

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Middlesbrough form and stats

The story so far for Middlesbrough, who have the fewest conceded goals (32) in Championship, at their home stadium (Riverside Stadium) is 7 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats. It's trouble wherever Middlesbrough are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now. They really need to get back to winning ways. Three consecutive losses here at Riverside Stadium is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

The Middlesbrough crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Norwich City here at Riverside Stadium in a Championship match. Prior to that, an away loss at Aston Villa.

There will be little rest for Middlesbrough after this match as they are travelling to Swansea City for a Championship game in only three days.

Middlesbrough has scored 19 goals at home this season, in 19 matches. From these home matches, Middlesbrough have conceded only 15 goals.

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Bristol City form and stats

Playing away, Bristol City have won 9 games, drawn 4 and suffered 5 defeats so far this season.

Two travels in a row for Bristol City, whose manager L. Johnson could celebrate last time after the Championship win against Sheffield United. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Ipswich Town.

After this away game Bristol City return home for a Championship game against Wigan Athletic. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Bristol City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 26 away goals from 18 games. As opposed to that, Bristol City have seen the ball go into their own net 21 times on the road.

Let's have a look at how Bristol City performed last season in the Championship. They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 17 victories, 16 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 67 and conceded 58 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 10 and lost 7 with 26/30 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Bristol City - Middlesbrough 0-2 played earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Middlesbrough won 4, Bristol City won 5 and 1 draw.

Top Goalscorers

F. Diedhiou
11 goals / 2 assists
B. Assombalonga
10 goals
A. Weimann
9 goals / 4 assists

Middlesbrough missing players

Bristol City missing players

Middlesbrough Bristol City
Total Home Statistic Away Total
38 19 Played 18 37
40 19 Scored 26 48
32 15 Conceded 21 40
87% 89% Over 0.5 94% 97%
66% 68% Over 1.5 61% 65%
29% 21% Over 2.5 39% 35%
5% 0% Over 3.5 33% 22%
3% 0% Over 4.5 28% 16%
39% 32% Both teams to score 44% 51%
42% 47% Clean Sheet 44% 32%
32% 32% Failed To Score 17% 19%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Norwich City 39 24 9 6 78 48 19 13 2 4 41 29 20 11 7 2 37 19 30 81
2 Leeds United 39 23 7 9 66 41 20 13 3 4 35 18 19 10 4 5 31 23 25 76
3 Sheffield United 39 22 8 9 66 37 20 13 3 4 37 16 19 9 5 5 29 21 29 74
4 West Bromwich Albion 39 20 10 9 75 50 20 9 7 4 44 27 19 11 3 5 31 23 25 70
5 Aston Villa 39 15 15 9 70 55 20 9 8 3 46 33 19 6 7 6 24 22 15 60
6 Derby County 38 16 11 11 52 45 20 10 7 3 31 19 18 6 4 8 21 26 7 59
7 Bristol City 37 16 10 11 48 40 19 7 6 6 22 19 18 9 4 5 26 21 8 58
8 Middlesbrough 38 15 13 10 40 32 19 7 6 6 19 15 19 8 7 4 21 17 8 58
9 Nottingham Forest 39 14 15 10 54 45 20 11 4 5 29 19 19 3 11 5 25 26 9 57
10 Preston North End 39 15 12 12 59 52 19 7 9 3 34 24 20 8 3 9 25 28 7 57
11 Sheffield Wednesday 39 14 14 11 48 51 19 8 8 3 27 22 20 6 6 8 21 29 -3 56
12 Hull City 39 15 9 15 56 56 19 9 5 5 31 18 20 6 4 10 25 38 0 54
13 Brentford 38 13 11 14 60 50 19 11 3 5 40 20 19 2 8 9 20 30 10 50
14 Stoke City 39 10 18 11 37 42 20 8 6 6 20 18 19 2 12 5 17 24 -5 48
15 Swansea City 37 13 8 16 46 48 17 8 4 5 26 20 20 5 4 11 20 28 -2 47
16 Blackburn Rovers 39 12 11 16 53 62 19 8 6 5 26 18 20 4 5 11 27 44 -9 47
17 Queens Park Rangers 39 12 8 19 46 61 20 8 3 9 28 28 19 4 5 10 18 33 -15 44
18 Birmingham City 39 12 14 13 55 52 19 6 8 5 26 20 20 6 6 8 29 32 3 41
19 Reading 39 9 13 17 42 57 20 7 4 9 27 30 19 2 9 8 15 27 -15 40
20 Wigan Athletic 39 10 10 19 41 57 20 9 7 4 25 19 19 1 3 15 16 38 -16 40
21 Millwall 38 9 10 19 43 58 18 6 6 6 22 24 20 3 4 13 21 34 -15 37
22 Rotherham United 39 7 15 17 41 67 19 6 8 5 27 30 20 1 7 12 14 37 -26 36
23 Bolton Wanderers 39 8 8 23 28 64 19 4 4 11 12 28 20 4 4 12 16 36 -36 32
24 Ipswich Town 39 3 15 21 30 64 20 2 10 8 18 27 19 1 5 13 12 37 -34 24

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