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MIDDLESBROUGH v BOLTON BIG MATCH FACTS
Here's a stat that you probably were not aware of. Boro have not lost three Premier League games in a row since being beaten by Wolves, Aston Villa and Liverpool in April and May 2004. Since then, we have played sixty-nine league matches.
Bolton are looking for a third straight win after 4-1 and 2-0 victories against West Ham and Sunderland in the last two.
This is the 101st league meeting between Boro and Bolton and the first time we have played this season. We have still to play at Bolton in a rearranged match after the 28th December game was postponed.
Of the previous one hundred meetings, Boro have thirty wins and Bolton have fourty-six with twenty-four ending in draws. Boro have only beaten Bolton twice in the Premier League before whereas Bolton hvae four wins under their belts.
Bolton have won three of the last four Premiership matches including the last two and have scored in each of the last eight Premiership encounters and only failed to score in one of the last eleven.
However, their away from is questionable with just one win in eight on their top flight travels and none in six. But despite that, this is still the Trotters most successful Premier League campaign and they are pushing hard for a Champions League position.
Boro have drawn more home Premiership fixtures than any other team although Tottenham, Newcastle and Portsmouth equal Boro's record of five. We have failed to score in six home League encounters this season and only Manchester City can better that dubiosu record with seven.
Boro need three goals to total 500 in our Premier League history but we are one shy of conceding fifty goals in this Premiership season. From our fifteen home games this season we have five wins, five draws and five defeats. Wanderers have four wins, five draws and five defeats from their fourteen away matches.
Boro's twenty-nine League games have produced eighty-eight goals and at 3.03 it's the highest goals per game average in the League, along with Fulham, whose thirty-one games have produced ninety-one goals.
Today's referee is Howard Webb of South Yorkshire.
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