Preston North End 0-2 Middlesbrough: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020

Result

Preston North End 0-2 Middlesbrough

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Preston North End · Middlesbrough · Championship predictions

Preston North End 0-2 Middlesbrough: match report

Preston North End lost to Middlesbrough 0-2 in the Championship on Wednesday 1 January 2020. The half-time score was 0-1.

Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Preston North End did not score. Middlesbrough scored through Rudy Gestede (40') and Ashley Fletcher (62').

Discipline: Preston North End received no yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 8th on 39 points from 25 and Middlesbrough 16th on 30 points from 25. Preston North End went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Middlesbrough 18th with 53.

Preston North End lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Middlesbrough in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Marvin Johnson of Middlesbrough (7.8), ahead of Aynsley Pears (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Preston North End win, 5 draws and 4 for Middlesbrough.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Rudy GestedeMiddlesbrough · 0-1
  • 62'Goal · Ashley FletcherMiddlesbrough · 0-2
  • 64'Yellow card · Adam ClaytonMiddlesbrough
  • 66'Yellow card · Marvin JohnsonMiddlesbrough

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 1, draws 5, Middlesbrough 4.

Team news

Preston North End line-up (4-2-3-1)

Declan Rudd, Darnell Fisher, Patrick Bauer, Ben Davies, Andrew Hughes, Ben Pearson, Paul Gallagher, Tom Barkhuizen, Alan Browne, Sean Maguire, David Nugent

Middlesbrough line-up (3-4-1-2)

Aynsley Pears, Jonathan Howson, Yuki Takahashi, Dael Fry, Djed Spence, Adam Clayton, George Saville, Marvin Johnson, Marcus Tavernier, Rudy Gestede, Ashley Fletcher