Middlesbrough were one of the most impressive teams in the Championship last season, beaten in the play-off semi-finals, but this season hasn’t gone quite to plan for Boro so far.
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Middlesbrough’s 2023/24 campaign comes to a close on May 4 with a home meeting vs Watford.
Boro are currently 8th in the table and can finish no higher than that, if even if they beat the Hornets.
Overall, Middlesbrough had a decent campaign considering they lost a number of their top stars last summer and never really replaced them. A dismal run midway through the campaign dented their play-off chances massively but there are still plenty of positives for Michael Carrick to take into next season.
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Middlesbrough may not be favourites to win this season’s edition of the EFL Championship, but at the same time they will certainly be considered as part of the promotion mix. They were awfully close to the top two last time around, can they go one better come next May?
Whether you are backing them to win the title or simply go up via the play-offs, we will have all the best betting tips and offers available. Whether it be a win in the first week or the last, our website will provide you with the best bookmaker beating insights.
About Middlesbrough
In the six seasons that have been contested since relegation out of the Premier League in 2017, it is fair to say that Middlesbrough have been something of a mixed bag. Dalliances with the play-offs to go alongside midtable mediocrity has largely been the order of the day.
Never enough to really threaten the teams at the very top of the table, never really a concern when it comes to relegation to League One. That was until the 2022/23 edition of the Championship – a season that offered both variables in a single campaign.
By the time Chris Wilder had been given the boot last October, relegation to the third tier was a rather viable concern and although his replacement was never going to be able to fix things overnight, he certainly did an incredible repair job.
A job that was taken by former Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick and although he had previously been part of the Old Trafford managerial machine, the Riverside Stadium would be his first permanent outpost.
An outpost that may have Carrick eventually rubbing shoulders with his previous employers and if the trajectory of progress continues at the same pace that it did in his first six months, the next six months could be rather positive.
Of course, it is far easier to surge up the Championship table from a lowly position and the ability to complete the final mile is what hampered Middlesbrough at the back end of last season. A fourth place finish would eventually go alongside despair in the play-offs.
However, this should not undermine the transformation job that Carrick achieved and to look negatively on Boro’s failure to earn automatic promotion, would ignore the incredible football that was played in the second half of last season.
As always, the three teams that were relegated from the Premier League are favourites to go back up. Then again, it only needs one of them to fall short and the window of opportunity is there for Middlesbrough to climb right through.
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