Our prediction for this Championship match:
Middlesbrough
Match Time & Date:
9 August 2025
15:00
Prediction: 1-0
Swansea
Middlesbrough play host to Swansea City at their Riverside Stadium in the opening match of their Championship campaign. The Boro’s main goal is to secure a top-six finish and, no doubt, they want to make a flying start to the season. Summer recruit Abdoulaye Kante is likely to make his official Middlesbrough debut on Saturday, while centre-forward Josh Coburn is a new Millwall player.
Meanwhile, the South Wales outfit were struggling in preseason, with the team losing each of their last three warm-up games. Given their shaky defence and Boro’s desire to kickstart the new season in style, home win should be considered. A man to keep an eye on in the away team will be summer signing Zeidane Inoussa, who is likely to prove a handful for the opposition back-line. In their last meeting at Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough defeated Swansea 1-0, with Emmanuel Latte Lath scoring the only goal of the match.
Highlighted Team (Middlesbrough):
Middlesbrough is a professional football club that have been balancing between the top two divisions of England’s league system in the modern history. Boro have been playing their home games at the Riverside Stadium since 1995 and their shirt colour is red. The capacity of the Riverside Stadium is 34,742. Middlesbrough impressed in the 2015/2016 Championship campaign and they did really well to secure promotion to the English top flight. Newcastle United and Sunderland are regarded as the club’s main rivals, but there is a rivalry with Leeds United as well.
Middlesbrough made it to the FA Cup final in 1997, but Chelsea proved to be a big catch for the Boro in the title game (0-2). However, the Riverside Stadium outfit did remarkably well to win the League Cup trophy in 2004, with the team beating Bolton Wanderers in the final. George Boateng, Stewart Downing, Juninho Paulista, Gareth Southgate, Jonathan Woodgate, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Tuncay Sanli and Hamilton Ricard are the star footballers who left their mark at Middlesbrough.
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