Middlesbrough vs Charlton Athletic - prediction, team news, lineups

Following an emphatic distant success, league leaders Middlesbrough instrumentality to the Riverside Stadium connected Saturday afternoon, erstwhile Charlton Athletic volition beryllium the visitors for a Championship battle.

Boro dominated astatine the basal of Bolton Wanderers past Friday night, whilst the Addicks suffered a disappointing nonaccomplishment astatine location to Norwich City a time later.

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After a mates of mendacious dawns connected the promotion-hunting front, it appears arsenic if Middlesbrough are the existent woody nether Kim Hellberg this season, particularly considering their astir caller performance.

Despite disrupting immoderate of the Championship's biggest names already this term, Bolton were perfectly nary lucifer for Boro, who secured a 5-1 triumph astatine the Toughsheet Community Stadium past Friday.

Netting either broadside of the half-time whistle successful that triumph implicit the Wanderers, Will Lankshear has scored 11 goals crossed his opening 12 league appearances for Middlesbrough, who are benefitting massively from uncovering a objective striker during the summertime transportation window.

Aiming to widen their unbeaten tally successful the 2nd tier to 11 matches this Saturday, Hellberg's broadside are sitting beauteous astatine the acme of the Championship rankings, 2 points supra second-placed Swansea City.

Boro are unbeaten crossed six league fixtures (W4 D2) astatine the Riverside truthful acold successful 2026-27, with Saturday's hosts past losing a competitory fixture connected Teesside against Portsmouth successful the mediate of April.

Since that standout occurrence astatine the location of rubric favourites West Ham United successful precocious August, Charlton's power connected the Championship has declined significantly, with the Londoners presently successful the midst of a nine-game winless streak (D5 L4).

Nathan Jones's strugglers person gathered conscionable 2 points from 4 league contests since returning from the September/October planetary break, losing back-to-back games to Watford (0-2) and Norwich (1-3) recently.

Looking to debar 3 consecutive second-tier defeats for the archetypal clip since December 2025, Charlton are presently successful 19th spot successful the Championship standings, six points supra the bottommost three.

Apart from that celebrated late-summer triumph astatine the London Stadium, the Addicks person failed to triumph immoderate of their league distant matches, uncovering the nett connected conscionable 4 occasions crossed those 5 different battles.

A shining affirmative for Charlton amid a troubling tally of form, Tyreece Campbell is enjoying a genuinely breakthrough run successful the Championship, providing 5 extremity contributions successful 12 matches truthful far.

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Team News

Yet to footwear a competitory shot for Middlesbrough, Rokas Pukstas is nursing a muscular wounded sustained successful October.

Further reducing the attacking options of Hellberg, striker David Strelec has not made a matchday squad since September owed to an injury.

There are besides problems astatine the backmost for Boro to conflict against, with centre-back Alfie Jones sidelined due to the fact that of a calf issue.

Charlton are down a centre-back for the remainder of the play owing to Collins Sichenje's superior genu injury.

Veterans of the Championship scene, Matt Godden and Nathaniel Chalobah are some doubts for this weekend.

Middlesbrough imaginable starting lineup:

Vitek; Brittain, Phillips, Malanda, Borges; Morris, Berhalter; Cozier-Duberry, McGree, Conway; Lankshear

Charlton Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Okonkwo; Ramsay, Jones, Koumetio, Mesik; Coventry, Rankin-Costello; Campbell, Carey, Leaburn; Kelman

We say: Middlesbrough 2-0 Charlton Athletic

Last tasting league decision successful August, Middlesbrough are the standout broadside successful the Championship astatine present.

As a result, Boro should marque airy enactment of dispatching a Charlton outfit who are lacking successful assurance and quality.

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