📏 Form Guide

Charlton Athletic

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Charlton Athletic will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 3-1 Championship losing effort in their last game against Coventry City.

In that game, Charlton Athletic had 31% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Charlton Athletic was Harvey Knibbs (13'). For their opponents, Coventry City got 25 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Josh Eccles (40') and Ellis Simms (44', 76') scored for Coventry City.

Charlton Athletic have not been in good attacking form of late. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 vs opposition teams during their previous six fixtures. In those meetings, Charlton Athletic have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them total 13.

Heading into this contest, Charlton Athletic have left without a victory over Middlesbrough in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Middlesbrough

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Middlesbrough go into this meeting after a 1-4 Championship win against Hull City in their previous fixture.

In that game, Middlesbrough managed 54% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Middlesbrough, goals were scored by Dávid Strelec (9'), Alex Gilbert (32'), Morgan Whittaker (35') and Riley McGree (44'). At the other end, Hull City got 5 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Joe Gelhardt (62') was the scorer for Hull City.

Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Middlesbrough have bagged the sum of 12 goals. Middlesbrough have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, they have had 9 goals scored by their opponents. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.

Ahead of this clash, Middlesbrough are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head clashes going back to 27/09/2014 tells us that Charlton Athletic have won 1 of them & Middlesbrough 4, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined total of 11 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 3 for The Addicks and 8 created by The Boro. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.83.

The previous league meeting between the two was Championship match day 37 on 07/03/2020 when it ended Charlton Athletic 0-1 Middlesbrough.

That day, Charlton Athletic had 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

At the other end, Middlesbrough had 23 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Paddy McNair (17') was the scorer.

The referee was Stephen Martin.

ℹ️ Team News: Charlton Athletic

It seems likely that The Addicks look set to go for a 3-4-2-1 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Thomas Kaminski, Kayne Ramsay, Lloyd Jones, Macaulay Gillesphey, James Bree, Conor Coventry, Sonny Carey, Robert Apter, Harvey Knibbs, Tyreece Campbell and Isaac Olaofe.

📋 Team News: Middlesbrough

We’re of the thinking that The Boro might begin the game with a 4-4-2 formation, starting the game with Solomon Brynn, Callum Brittain, Alfie Jones, Matthew Targett, Alex Bangura, Morgan Whittaker, Hayden Hackney, Alex Gilbert, Riley McGree, David Strelec and Tommy Conway.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Middlesbrough and Charlton Athletic are both capable of scoring here.

Let’s see how this one goes, but it looks this could be a draw. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-1 score draw after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 19:03 09/12/2025