Middlesbrough 3-0 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Friday 2 March 2018
Result
Middlesbrough 3-0 Leeds United
Championship · Friday 2 March 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Middlesbrough 3-0 Leeds United: match report
Middlesbrough beat Leeds United 3-0 in the Championship on Friday 2 March 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.
P. Bamford opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from P. Bamford (31'), P. Bamford (36') and P. Bamford (68'). Leeds United did not score.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card; Leeds United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 8th on 52 points from 34 and Leeds United 11th on 49 points from 34. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 6th with 77 points, and Leeds United 13th with 60.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leeds United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adama Traoré of Middlesbrough (9.4), ahead of Patrick Bamford (9.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Middlesbrough wins, 2 draws and 6 for Leeds United.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read D-W-L-W-L and Leeds United's W-D-D-L-L.
Key events
- 31'Goal · P. Bamford
- 34'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 34'Yellow card · Samu Saiz
- 36'Goal · P. Bamford
- 41'Yellow card · Vurnon Anita
- 68'Goal · P. Bamford
- 73'Yellow card · L. Cooper
Head-to-head
Team news
Middlesbrough line-up (4-3-3)
Darren Randolph, George Friend, Yuki Takahashi, Ryan Shotton, Ben Gibson, Grant Leadbitter, Jonathan Howson, M. Bešić, Patrick Bamford, Stewart Downing, Adama Traoré
Leeds United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Felix Wiedwald, Liam Cooper, Vurnon Anita, Pontus Jansson, Gaetano Berardi, Ezgjan Alioski, Eunan O'Kane, Stuart Dallas, Samu Saiz, Kalvin Phillips, Pierre-Michel Lasogga