On Sky
This important promotion clash takes place in front of the Sky cameras again with an early 12.15 pm start and another full house with both sets of fans having taken up their ticket allocation. It is our last game before the International break, so would be good if we can take 3 points going into the break. After the break we have Ipswich away.
AFC Bournemouth are the top scorers in the Championship with 79 goals and have the 3rd best defensive record having conceded 40 goals.
Middlesbrough are the lowest scorers in the top 6 with 59 goals but have the best defensive record in the Championship by far having conceded just 27.
Middlesbrough jumped 2 points above us with a 1-0 away win against fellow promotion challengers Derby on Tuesday night.
Boro have won their last 2 games home and away but the away games before that they lost at Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.
AFC Bournemouth Team News:
Will Eddie Howe bring back Yann Kermorgant for this game or stick with Brett Pitman again?
No news of any injuries at Cardiff so hopefully we will have a strong squad to pick from again.
Eunan O’Kane and Dan Gosling both played 90 minutes and Baily Cargill played 70 minutes AFC Bournemouth in midweek in the Development league.
Player to watch: Callum Wilson
Really hope it will be Callum Wilson and he will score a goal in open play, these days he is being closely marked, so not getting the freedom he seemed to have earlier in the season.
Callum has just been selected for the England Under-21 squad for the friendlies against the Czech Republic and Germany. The Czech Republic game is away and the home game against Germany will be played on the ground of our visitors on Saturday Middlesbrough.
Middlesbrough Team News:
They are still hopeful of adding Jordan Rhodes to their ranks before next Thursday’s transfer loan closes, especially after Blackburn losing against Brentford leaves them 11 points outside a play-off spot with an inferior goal difference.
Jonathan Woodgate and Daniel Ayala will be assessed ahead of the game.
Player to watch: Patrick Bamford
Patrick Bamford their leading scorer and looking very sharp recently and he is a player our defence will have to watch and mark carefully or he will punish you given the chance.
Match Facts & Stats
In our away fixture against Middlesbrough it ended in stalemate 0-0.
The meetings at Dean Court between the sides have mostly ended in draws with 1 AFC Bournemouth victory.
Last season the game down here also ended 0-0 and the game away in a 3-3 draw.
In our encounters at Dean Court AFC Bournemouth have W1 D4 L0 F6 A4.
In all our games in league and cup we have W1 D6 L7 F13 A24.
