Middlesboro v Fulham - Match Stats
last updated Friday 23rd August 2002, 12:27 PM
Middlesboro (Boro)
Stadium: Riverside
This season: 11th in Prem on 1 pts |
Manager: Steve McClaren (Jun 2001)
Games: 49 - W 35%, D 26%, L 39%
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- 'Boro may not have dropped a home point against the Cottagers in four attempts, but they haven't won in their last five Premiership outings and haven't scored in six hours of top flight soccer.
- Without a win in 5 league games
- Not scored in last 4 Premiership outings [360 mins / 6 hrs]
- Won 3 of last 9 Premiership matches
- 2 draws in last 10 top flight encounters
- 4 defeats in last 9 top division duels
- Failed to find the net in 4 of last 11 League clashes
- Managed 2 clean sheet in last 8 top tier League outings
- 'Boro's last top flight victory was home to Aston Villa on 6 April, when they notched a 2-1 scoreline.
- New Signings From Fee
Massimo Maccarone Empoli £8.15m
Juninho Athletico Madrid £6m
George Boateng Aston Villa £5m
Franck Queudrue Lens £2.5m
Geremi Real Madrid Loan
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CAREER MILESTONES
- If he plays, Colin COOPER will be making the 550th League appearance of his career.
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LAST SEASON TOP SCORERS
- Boksic - 8, Whelan - 7, Nemeth - 6
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source=BBC
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Fulham FC - (The Cottagers)
This season 2nd in Prem on 3 points |
Manager: Jean Tigana (Jul 2000)
Games 117, W46%, D33%, L21%
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- A Fulham win at Boro would take their League points under Tigana over the 150 mark. They have 148 at present.
- Fulham, who kicked off their season in mid-July, have recorded four wins and four draws in their eight outings thus far, and on Tuesday take on Bologna in the InterToto Cup Final knowing victory, or a 0-0 or 1-1 draw would be enough to qualifying them for entry to this season's Uefa Cup.
- Yet to lose.
- 8 Undefeated (4 wins, 4 draws)
- 4 wins in last 8 League and Cup games this season
- Won 3 of last 14 Premiership matches
- Drawn 4 of last 8 in all competitions
- 3 draws in last 8 top flight encounters
- Lost 0 of last 8 confrontations
- 7 defeats in last 14 top division duels
- Failed to score in 1 of last 8 contests
- Failed to find the net in 3 of the last 7 League clashes
- 4 clean sheets in last 8
- Managed 3 clean sheets in last 5 top tier League outings
- SUMMER TRANSFERS
In From Fee
Facundo Sava Gimnasia £2m
Herrera Alaves Free
Junichi Inamoto Gamba Osaka Loan
Martin Djetou Parma Loan
Out To Fee
Marcus Hahnemann Reading Free
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CAREER MILESTONES
- Barry HAYLES needs one more strike to register 50 goals for Fulham.
- If named in the eleven, Rufus BREVETT will be making the 400th start of his League career.
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TOP SCORERS
- Legwinski - 4(2 Lge 2 Euro)
- Also: Marlet - 3(1 Lge 2 Euro), Saha - 2(1 Lge 1 Euro), Davis/Hayles/Inamoto/Saha - 1 Euro
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Last Seasons Top Scorers:
Hayles - 12, Malbranque - 10, Marlet/Saha - 9
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source= BBC
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Head to Head
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- Both managers are going into their 40th Premiership matches. But while Steve McClaren has seen Middlesbrough win 12 times, and Jean Tigana has witnessed Fulham's 11, the Cottagers need victory here claim 50 top flight points, while a win for the home side would mean the Teessiders had collected 49 points during McClaren's tenure.
- Middlesbrough, who made a disastrous start last season with four defeats on the spin, will be hoping for four points from their opening two encounters. They last achieved that in 2000/2001 when winning 3-1 at Coventry and holding Spurs to a 1-1 home draw. In the same season in the Nationwide First Division, Fulham claimed six points out of six with victories over Crewe and Birmingham - the last time the Londoners achieved such a feat at the outset of a League campaign.
- Should Middlesbrough clean up, it would not only be their fifth successive home win over Fulham but the 80th victory in their all-time Premiership history.
- Middlesbrough and Fulham may be meeting in the Premiership for only the third time, but have never faced each other outside the League.
- The Teessiders are in line for a fifth successive home win over the Cottagers.
- Fulham last won in Cleveland on 24 March, 1984 when they scored a 0-2 success in the old League - Division Two.
- Fulham's one and only top flight maximum at Middlesbrough was 53 years ago. The Londoners won 1-2 in the League - Division One on 7 September, 1949.
Match
report - Middlesboro v Fulham 19th Feb 2002
Previous
results between the two clubs
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Disciplinary
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Matchday Referee: Mike Dean,
Heswell, Wirral
This is Mike Dean's second Premiership season and 2001/02 should see his profile rise considerably as he takes charge of more matches.
Some players might have a hard time taking orders from someone younger than them, but the Premiership's senior professionals will have to get used to it because there's a new kid on the block. At 33, Mike Dean is certainly the Premiership's youngest referee, but the Merseyside shift supervisor turned full-time ref has already taken charge of a Wembley final.
Last season he reffed four
Fulham games, three of them at home, against Sunderland,Derby, and Middlesbrough with the fourth game being away at Bolton. During the games he yellow carded 4 Fulham players and 8 opponents.
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Stats source=4thegame
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