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MIDDLESBROUGH 1 DERBY COUNTY 0 - FIRST HALF REPORT
Andy Morgan
Robert Huth did not feature in the side that was sent out to play against basement side Derby County. He was replaced by Emmanuel Pogatetz in the centre of defence.
Pogi was to partner England international David Wheater whilst his left-back position was handed to Andrew Taylor. Luke Young made up the defending contingent.
Lee Cattermole partnered George Boateng in the midfield, with Shawky on the bench recovering from a toe injury. Gary O'Neil and Stewart Downing were on the right and left respectively.
Jeremie Aliadiere started his first home game since returning from his frivolous suspension. He was to partner Tuncay with Afonso Alves on the bench.
Schwarzer, Young, Wheater, Pogatetz, Taylor, O'Neil, Cattermole, Boateng, Downing, Aliadiere, Tuncay, Turnbull, Alves, Shawky, Johnson, Grounds
THE FIRST HALF
The opening stages of the game were windy - in more ways than one. The wind was whipping around the Riverside and it was affecting the progression of the game. The play itself was poor, full of miscontrols and throw-ins.
Tuncay almost stole in in the fifth minute but Dean Leacock got the clearance. Thirty seconds later Boateng hit the diagonal over James McEveley's head. It found O'Neil who crossed the ball in and it deflected out for the corner.
Derby were Windy Miller from the corner and it was unfortunate that a Boro player couldn't steal in.
Downing carried the ball beyond Andy Todd and crossed a strong ball into the box. It deflected off Robbie Savage and almost into the goal. Downing took the corner left-footed and it was headed over the bar by Darren Moore defending.
From the second corner, Tuncay powered a header towards Roy Carroll's goal and he scrambled the clearance before Wheater could toe-poke it beyond him. From the next corner, nothing resulted.
Derby's first chance came on fourteen when McEveley darted into the box and almost set up Miller, causing panic in the Boro defence. The Boro eventually cleared but it was a scare.
There was less happening in this game than the average episode of Scooby Doo as the game was descending into a stop start affair. Indeed it was like the A19 after some twonk decides to crash his car into a lamppost in the middle of rush hour. Except the traffic jam would be far more interesting.
Gary O'Neil put the ball into the area from a free kick and Tuncay was fed by a Derby player. The Turk forced a strong save from Carroll but the referee blew up, which was inconvenient all round.
On twenty Robbie Savage nicked the ball off Aliadiere's toe before he could unleash a shot. Before this, there had been some nice build up play between Downing and Boateng.
A minute later Derby read the one-two that Downing was trying with Aliadiere on the edge of the area. They conceded a corner, O'Neil took it, Carroll punched it away and the Rams broke.
Then Paul Jewell broke down as they promptly lost it. Less like the Rams more like the Clams.
On twenty-five Downing crossed the ball and Cattermole fell over, allowing Derby to clear their lines. It was the result of some more patient build-up from the Boro but they just lacked that cutting edge that would allow them to unlock the Derby defence.
Derby's defending was getting deeper, allowing the Boro's playmakers more space. On twenty-seven Pogatetz got a flick-on from a Boro free-kick and Carroll sprited off his line to clear before Tuncay could latch on to it.
A minute later a Schwarzer hoof went over the Derby defence and Leacock was forced into conceding the corner. Derby struggled to clear and Cattermole had a shot that flashed wide under pressure from County defenders.
The game was everything you would expect of it - bloody rubbish. The Boro were dominating but were creating very little that was clear-cut. The fans were still hopeful of getting that vital victory though.
And they were right to be hopeful. On thirty-two Downing passed to Boateng on the left hand side of the pitch. He flicked the ball through Darren Moore's legs and on to Tuncay. Instead of curling the ball beyond Carroll, he checked back, outfoxed the Derby keeper and scored the opening goal of the game from eighteen yards out.
MIDDLESBROUGH 1 (Tuncay, 32) DERBY COUNTY 0
An Andrew Taylor slip almost let Derby in but the flag went up almost immediately. Before that, Pogatetz went to ground under the challenge of Leacock. Replays showed that he should have had a penalty as the Derby man was pulling on the Austrian's shirt.
Leacock was tenacious in defence, clearing a Downing ball on thirty-six. He only managed to clear it to Boateng but the Boat could do little with it and the Boro were forced into regrouping.
If Tuncay could knock the ball beyond Leacock, the Boro would have had three against two but the defender got a touch on the ball and the chance was spurned. At the other end McEveley buried the ball beyond Schwarzer but the flag was up for offside long before he struck.
Downing took a dreadful free kick on forty-one that went straight out into touch. It was disappointing.
On forty-three O'Neil appealed to the referee after a Leacock handball in the penalty area. Martin Atkinson was having none of it.
At the other end Kenny Miller handled the ball after it came off his thigh. His shot went well wide though so it hardly mattered.
The Boro fans were urging a second goal before halftime in order to kill the game off. It didn't look like coming though as the game had once again settled into the tepid yawnfest that it had been earlier.
There was four minutes of added time after a library of stoppages had lengthened the game. This meant that we expected to finish sometime next Thursday. Or at least that's what it was feeling like.
Aliadiere went down under pressure from Andy Todd but Downing played on. Boateng tried the shot from the edge of the area and McEveley managed the clearance. The crowd booed the lack of a penalty award for the foul on Aliadiere.
In the final seconds, Tuncay had a shot that flashed narrowly wide after some good build-up play. This was the last action of the half.
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