Middlesbrough v West Brom 4/1 Bet Builder Tips, Longshot Predictions & Cheat Sheet
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Middlesbrough defend their unbeaten start to the Championship season against a West Brom team under a rookie manager, but also aspiring for promotion.
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Even the most optimistic of Boro supporters wouldn't have predicted 13 points from their opening five matches. The fixture list has been fairly kind, but the start buys Rob Edwards time now to assert himself in the role.
Edwards has made an adjustment to the Boro setup this year, moving away from a 4-2-3-1 shape to a 3-4-3, but, importantly, it is accentuating some of their key players’ best traits. The midfield pairing of Hayden Hackney and Aidan Morris is producing some excellent football and giving Boro the platform to both attack and defend.
There is also more choice in the forward positions now with the recruitment of David Strelec and Kaly Sene supplementing Tommy Conway and Morgan Whittaker. Sverre Nypan also adds some skill and thrust to the team, with Callum Brittain and Matt Targett providing quality, balance, and experience from wide.
Positives and negatives from Ryan Mason's start to life as a senior head coach. If it weren't for a late concession to Derby last time out, then we would be looking at two unbeaten teams here.
That home loss has taken the gloss off Mason as far as the Baggies fans are concerned, but in all fairness, West Brom deserved to win that match; it was something of a minor smash and grab by the Rams. Bearing in mind the relative uncertainty that West Brom started the season with, this looks a decent return to me.
The basic shape is a familiar one of 4-2-3-1. The tweaks that you will see from Mason are that left-back Callum Styles will move into midfield or support further up, allowing George Campbell to become more of a CB/RB hybrid to keep the solidity.
Isaac Price is the player to watch for West Brom. The system allows him something of a free role, and he has been using that to great effect in the attacking phase for the Baggies.
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Andrew Kitchen
Fouls pg | Yellows pg | Reds pg | Pens pg |
|---|---|---|---|
24.11 | 3.21 | 0.08 | 0.15 |
Per game stats from Kitchen's 53 career Championship games.
📊 Middlesbrough v West Brom Stats
Despite being top of the league and third for goals scored, Boro are 18th for xG created, with only 5.8 xG from five matches.
Middlesbrough are the lowest crossing team in the Championship, with only 2.4 crosses per match.
Boro are conceding so little by way of chances - they're second in the league for xG conceded with 3.3 xG conceded.
West Brom have the highest number of completed passes per match in the league with 427 - the only team over 400.
Despite this, West Brom are only 14th for accurate long balls played.
West Brom are also really low for the number of fouls per match, 20th in the league with 9.8 fouls per match.
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