The latest team news from TeessideLive as Mark Robins’ side prepare to face Middlesbrough with a massively depleted squad
Middlesbrough will face a patched-up Stoke City team when they face their promotion rivals at the bet365 Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Boro go into the game five places and eight points above seventh placed Stoke and know they will face a side that has suffered a rash of injuries in recent weeks.
Indeed Mark Robins’ striker cordon has been decimated, with the latest victim Divin Mubama taken off ten minutes into the second half of Saturday’s 0-0 draw against QPR with what Robins claimed was a serious leg injury.
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The hamstrung Sam Gallagher and absence of Robert Bozenik , who has had shoulder surgery, will leave the Potters with Lamine Cisse as their sole option through the middle, albeit he is not a recognised centre-forward.
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In goal Viktor Johansson is out with a shoulder problem, while at the back Junior Tchamadeu has returned form the Africa Cup of Nations with a knee injury, and Ben Gibson has been nursing a calf strain.
In the middle of the park Lewis Baker is out after surgery on his heel and Steven Nzonzi was ill at the weekend.
Even the club’s loan players have been struck down with both Nathan Lowe and Emre Tezgel finding their time away cut short by injury.
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