Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Tuesday 5 December 2006

Result

Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Tuesday 5 December 2006, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Tottenham Hotspur · Middlesbrough · Premier League predictions

Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Middlesbrough: match report

Tottenham Hotspur beat Middlesbrough 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 5 December 2006. The half-time score was 0-0.

Dimitar Berbatov opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Dimitar Berbatov (47') and Robbie Keane (83'). Middlesbrough scored through Robert Huth (79').

Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 12th on 19 points from 15 and Middlesbrough 15th on 16 points from 15. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 60 points, and Middlesbrough 12th with 46.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 3 draws and 4 for Middlesbrough.

Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read L-W-D-L-W and Middlesbrough's L-D-D-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 47'Goal · Dimitar BerbatovTottenham Hotspur · 1-0
  • 79'Goal · Robert HuthMiddlesbrough · 1-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Julio ArcaMiddlesbrough
  • 83'Goal · Robbie KeaneTottenham Hotspur · 2-1
  • 87'Red card · George BoatengMiddlesbrough
  • 87'Red card · Didier ZokoraTottenham Hotspur
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Emanuel PogatetzMiddlesbrough
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Robert HuthMiddlesbrough

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Tottenham Hotspur 3, draws 3, Middlesbrough 4.

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur line-up

Paul Robinson, Pascal Chimbonda, Young-Pyo Lee, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Didier Zokora, Steed Malbranque, Tom Huddlestone, Dimitar Berbatov, Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon

Middlesbrough line-up

Mark Schwarzer, Emanuel Pogatetz, Robert Huth, Andrew Taylor, George Boateng, Stewart Downing, Lee Cattermole, Malcolm Christie, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Jonathan Woodgate, Abel da Silva Costa Xavier