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Dijksteel prods Boro into early lead but Roberts lob earns Burnley point Clarets miss chance to go top of Championship Boro stay fifth, six points behind second-placed Burnley Glenn Speller Burnley 0-1 Middlesbrough Just reflecting on that Boro goal, Anfernee Djksteel stands still while two Burnley defenders run past him - Daniel Barlaser slips a lovely ball in and the home defence can't react quick enough. Smart finish by the way - first league goal of the season for the Suriname international. Burnley 0-1 Middlesbrough Neil Maddison Former Middlesbrough midfielder on BBC Tees Great start, great finish from Dijksteel. The ball from Barlaser was fabulous. Burnley are briefly stunned, Middlesbrough are a side who want to get forward, the next 20 minutes are really important. Burnley 0-1 Middlesbrough A quick response from Burnley ends with Josh Cullen getting a shot away which takes two deflections before Seny Dieng gets something on it to push away for a corner. Connor Roberts gets in a shot from a well-worked Burnley corner but his effort is blocked. Both teams coping well in the conditions. Anfernee Dijksteel (13 mins) oohh. .. What's happened to the Burnley defence there? Anfernee Dijksteel is behind the home defence on his own and he's slipped in to score. Dijksteel is actually falling over as he gets the final touch to beat James Trafford. It's only the third goal conceded by Burnley at Turf Moor this season. #bbcefl, Whats App 03301231826, text 81111 (UK only, standard rates apply) Saw Hertha 0 Bayern 1 in minus 5 degrees in the Olympicstadion in Berlin on a lads’ weekend. I insisted we went despite the weather. Rubbish game. I think Robben scored. Every other Bundesliga game that day was a goal fest. My mates still haven’t forgiven me. Tom in Leytonstone. With Storm Darragh showing signs of rearing its head at Turf Moor tonight, we're asking you what are the worst conditions you've watched professional football in. .. Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough Free-kick for Middlesbrough midway inside the Burnley half but rather than load the box they take it short. When they do send a cross in it swirls in the wind and the home goalkeeper James Trafford has to adjust his feet three times before judging the catch well - wonder if the coaches have taken note of that? Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough 67% possession for Burnley but so far without carving anything out in terms of a chance. Middlesbrough happy to soak things up for now and looking to hit on the counter attack but remember, Burnley have only conceded six goals in their 18 Championship matches. Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough The wind really is howling around Turf Moor this evening - keep it on the floor lads. A quiet start on the pitch with both sides feeling each other out but lots of possession for Burnley. Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough Tonight's head coaches, Scott Parker and Michael Carrick, faced each other way back when, as youngsters in the respective youth set-ups at Charlton and West Ham - now here they are trying to get their teams into the Premier League. The years pass by quickly. .. too quickly for some of us. .. Burnley 0-0 Middlesbrough The weather is set to get a bit wet, wild and windy this weekend. Fortunately we have the chaos of the Championship to keep us calm(! ) We're underway at Turf Moor. .. #bbcefl, Whats App 03301231826, text 81111 (UK only, standard rates apply) The storm has arrived, heavy rain and driving winds in Burnley, going to be a very unpleasant experience in the lower tiers at Turf Moor tonight. Kurt from Burnley What's the worst conditions in which you've watched a professional football match? Let us know where, when - and how bad! Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) BBC Local Radio Rights restrictions mean we can't bring you audio commentary on this page tonight. But if you live in the areas covered by the stations, you can access BBC Radio Lancashire and BBC Radio Tees commentary by the normal means. Additionally, we'll be listening in too, in order to bring you the best of their commentary and punditry in text form right here. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) There's a lot to like at the moment if you're a Middlesbrough fan - four wins from their past five Championship games and 21 goals scored in the past seven. When you consider Michael Carrick's side had only managed 11 goals in the 11 matches directly preceding this run you see where we're coming from - now only Norwich have found the back of the net more than Boro in the Championship. In Tommy Conway and Emmanuel Latte Lath, they have forwards with 15 goals between them while Finn Azaz's five goals in his past three appearances shows what good business it was to bring him in back in January. At the back clean sheets have been a struggle with the most recent coming in a 1-0 victory over Sheffield United at the back end of October but if the trend continues we should be in for a few thrills and spills tonight. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) He might not have scored for his new club yet but Hannibal Mejbri is enjoying life at Burnley. After making the permanent switch from Manchester United in August, the Tunisia international has featured in 13 of their 18 Championship matches although he had to settle for a place on the bench for last week's 2-0 win at Stoke. "I like playing football, I like playing at Burnley, I like the squad and I like the fans, " Mejbri told BBC Radio Lancashire. "We are progressing, step-by-step, we had a lot of new players and slowly, we started to see a real team. " Having spent the final six months of last season on loan at Sevilla the 21-year-old is getting used to life back in the Championship having previously had a spell with Birmingham City. "In my family, everyone tells me that I am completely different on the pitch, " he said. "When I came to England, I was more the nice technical footballer, I had character but I didn't really like tackling but now I've got English football in me! If I'm going to tackle, I'm going to tackle. " Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) You may have already noticed a different layout and feel to your Burnley and Middlesbrough club pages over the past few weeks. On these pages, BBC Sport will serve up a bespoke club service, complete with the latest news and analysis on your team. And no matter who your Championship favourite is, each club will get the same unrivalled coverage. If you are on the app, don't miss a beat by tapping the bell icon and signing up for news notifications. And if you are on a browser, tap 'Follow' at the top to ensure the best content is always at your fingertips. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) We don't need to keep telling you how relentless and unforgiving the Championship is so we won't tell you how relentless and unforgiving it is - instead we just asked Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick. Having manoeuvred themselves into the slipstream of the automatic promotion race, the next five days will give everyone a clearer picture of Boro's credentials with games against Burnley and Leeds United on the agenda. "You're on that treadmill and you never get off it - that's the beauty of it, that's the test, but certainly these next two games are a challenge, " Carrick told BBC Radio Tees. "Burnley are efficient in what they do and they are a good team. We kind of know what we are getting ourselves into. " Whatever Boro get out of these two games there will be no time to reflect as next Saturday they host a Millwall side proving to be the surprise package of this season. The Championship, it's relentless and unforgiving, but you already knew that. .. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) You could forgive Burnley fans for thinking their side were, well, a bit uninspiring, to be honest but the stats at least make for impressive reading for Scott Parker's side. The struggle to score goals (23 in 18 games) has come as a surprise, even more so considering they hammered home nine in the opening two games of the campaign but with the best defensive record in the top seven tiers of English football only Sunderland and Millwall have managed to beat them in the Championship. Burnley are unbeaten at home in the league this season with only two sides even managing to score - for the record, Portsmouth lost while Blackburn took a precious point 15 miles back down the M65. The last time Burnley conceded a goal at home was 21 September - impressive isn't it? It could be five straight wins, six successive clean sheets and top of the table by the end of play tonight - uninspiring or not, it would be churlish to criticise. .. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) Some breaking Championship managerial news to bring you tonight. Middlesbrough were 3-1 winners over Hull City last weekend - and the Tigers have this evening announced their replacement for head coach Tim Walter. Ruben Selles has swapped a League One promotion bid with Reading for a Championship relegation battle. Selles will watch their match with Blackburn Rovers tomorrow before taking charge against Watford in midweek. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) Middlesbrough are chasing a third successive away win and have goalkeeper Seny Dieng back after a three-match injury absence. That is the only change to the side which beat Hull City last time out. Burnley v Middlesbrough (20: 00 GMT) Burnley boss Scott Parker makes two changes from the side which won at Stoke as they look to make it five wins and five clean sheets on the bounce. Josh Laurent has to settle for a place on the bench with Josh Brownhill coming into the starting line-up and John Egan is in for CJ Egan-Riley who doesn't make the matchday squad. Connor Roberts scored his first goal of the season for Burnley Burnley missed the chance to go top of the Championship after being held to an entertaining 1-1 draw by Middlesbrough at a blustery Turf Moor. Anfernee Dijksteel gave Boro the lead with the first shot of the game after 13 minutes, dinking cleverly over Clarets goalkeeper James Trafford to find the net from 12 yards. Connor Roberts hit an equaliser for Burnley eight minutes before the break when his looping effort from distance appeared to be helped by the windy conditions and caught keeper Seny Dieng off his line. Both sides created opportunities in the second half but it ended all square, meaning Burnley remain second, a point behind leaders Sheffield United, while Boro stay in fifth place. Burnley started the game the brighter of the two sides and enjoyed a sustained spell of possession without creating any clear openings. But they fell behind when Dan Barlaser fed a neat ball through to Dijksteel who managed to lift his effort over the onrushing Trafford while falling over to give Boro the lead with his first goal of the season. The Clarets responded well to going behind with Jeremy Sarmiento forcing Dieng into a good save at his near post and Jaidon Anthony firing a free-kick into the wall from the edge of the box. Despite Burnley's pressure, the ever-lively Liverpool loanee Ben Doak came close to doubling the lead for Boro on the half-hour mark after wriggling through on the right-hand side and firing just wide of the far post. The hosts eventually hit a deserved equaliser in the 37th minute when Roberts curled a left-footed effort over Dieng from 25 yards, with apparent assistance from the swirling wind brought by Storm Darragh. It was Middlesbrough who came out looking more lively in the second period, however, creating several good chances within the first 12 minutes of the half. An unmarked George Edmondson headed wide from the centre of the goal from six yards out before Tommy Conway and Delano Burgzorg both hit tame efforts straight at Trafford from inside the box. Boro continued to dominate but could not make their pressure pay, with Emmanuel Latte Lath also excellently thwarted by Trafford as he tried to nudge it past the Burnley goalkeeper after racing through on goal. Burnley improved in the closing stages as Anthony curled wide from distance, and Roberts failed to connect properly with a difficult close-range chance at the back post after a corner kick dropped to him at pace. But despite their late rally, Scott Parker's team were made to settle for a point against a fellow promotion-chasing side, who will feel they were good value for the draw, having ended Burnley's run of four straight wins and five consecutive clean sheets. The Clarets remain unbeaten at home but could drop out of the automatic promotion spots if third-placed Leeds United beat Derby County on Saturday. Former England youth team-mates Scott Parker and Michael Carrick faced off as head coaches Burnley head coach Scott Parker said: "I thought we were well worth three points tonight. The conditions definitely played a large factor in tonight's game for both teams really. You could see that in the flight of the ball and the winds and the rain. They were tough conditions. "They scored a goal against the run of play and that was probably down to us a little bit. Certainly, it's something we need to look at in that we gifted that a little bit in terms of the way we positioned ourselves. "As a coach you're always looking at certain moments and seeing the learning from it. "This is the first time the team has conceded in a long time so it's what sort of reaction we got. I got a reaction from a group of men that was nothing short of superb. " Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick told BBC Radio Tees: "It's a good point. If you go into the changing room, there's a tinge of disappointment, which is a good sign for me. "The boys are a bit disappointed that we haven't won the game, albeit respectful and accepting the way the game was and how tight it was in some aspects. "We're striving for more, we're hoping for more. Tonight we couldn't quite get it but we'll certainly take it and use it as a positive going into the games coming up. " On ending Burnley's run of five straight clean sheets: "They're very good defensively, Scotty [Parker] has got them really well organised, not giving a lot away at all through the whole season really. "It shows some of our play at times was really good and I think we're a little bit disappointed that we haven't had another goal. But maybe they're similar. They had moments around our box as well. " Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 6th December 2024 at 21: 53 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Scott Parker Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Michael Carrick Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Scott Parker Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Michael Carrick Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Championship All competitions All competitions All competitions Burnley are unbeaten across their last five league games against Middlesbrough (W3 D2), winning this exact fixture 3-1 when it was last played in December 2022. Middlesbrough have lost each of their last two away league games against Burnley, as many defeats as across their prior 10 visits to Turf Moor beforehand combined between 1972 and 2016 (W3 D5). Burnley are unbeaten in their last five league games (W4 D1), keeping a clean sheet in every game; only in October 1980 (7 games) and December 1946 (6) have they enjoyed longer runs of clean sheets in the Football League. Middlesbrough are looking to win three successive away league games for the first time since October 2023, with Michael Carrick’s side netting 13 goals in their last three league matches on the road. Only Leeds (13. 4) have a better expected goals against in the Championship this season than Burnley (13. 7), while Middlesbrough lead all Championship sides this term for expected goals (33. 2). © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.