Middlesbrough 3-0 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 17 December 2016
Result
Middlesbrough 3-0 Swansea City
Premier League · Saturday 17 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Middlesbrough 3-0 Swansea City: match report
Middlesbrough beat Swansea City 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 December 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
Álvaro Negredo opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Álvaro Negredo (18'), Álvaro Negredo (29', penalty) and Marten de Roon (58'). Swansea City did not score.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card; Swansea City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 17th on 15 points from 16 and Swansea City 18th on 12 points from 16. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 19th with 28 points, and Swansea City 15th with 41.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-3-3 and Swansea City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Álvaro Negredo of Middlesbrough (8.3), ahead of Adam Forshaw (8.0).
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read L-L-W-D-L and Swansea City's L-W-L-W-D.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Álvaro Negredo
- 29'Penalty goal · Álvaro Negredo
- 58'Goal · Marten de Roon
- 90'Yellow card · Álvaro Negredo
Team news
Middlesbrough line-up (4-3-3)
Víctor Valdés, Antonio Barragán, Calum Chambers, Ben Gibson, Fábio, Marten de Roon, Adam Clayton, Adam Forshaw, Gastón Ramírez, Álvaro Negredo, Viktor Fischer
Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Lukasz Fabianski, Àngel Rangel, Alfie Mawson, Jordi Amat, Neil Taylor, Leon Britton, Jay Fulton, Modou Barrow, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Wayne Routledge, Fernando Llorente