IN Middlesbrough’s bid to climb to the top of the Championship tonight manager Aitor Karanka has made three changes to the team which brushed aside Rotherham United on Saturday.
Dutch winger Yanic Wildschut was the man of the match at the New York Stadium but that is not enough to fall victim to Karanka’s tinkering against Norwich City, with Albert Adomah recalled after illness.
Ryan Fredericks also returns at full-back while Lee Tomlin slots in to the support line behind striker Kike, with Emilio Nsue and Adam Reach are the two to miss out.
Reach is named on the bench just a day after he signed a new four-year deal at the Riverside, where fans will turn up tonight hoping to see a victory which takes Boro to the top of the table.
MIDDLESBROUGH (4-2-3-1): Konstantopoulos; Fredericks, Ayala, Gibson, Friend; Leadbitter, Clayton; Adomah, Bamford, Tomlin; Kike. Subs: Mejias (gk), Whitehead, Reach, Vossen, Omeruo, Nsue, Wildschut.
NORWICH CITY (4-4-2): Ruddy; Whittaker, Martin, Turner, Olsson; Redmond, O’Neil, Tettey, Howson; Lafferty; Jerome. Subs: Rudd (gk), Cuellar, Johnson, Grabban, Hooper, Miquel, Murphy
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