Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "It's an important game but I don't want to put pressure on as it's December and we are doing well. The performances have been good playing in the way we have, we will score goals.

"Against Southampton we were as good as them but didn't win, but against Liverpool they were much better than us in the second half. It was a tough day but we have to forget that.  

"The main thing for us is to be as organised as a team. Swansea score goals but we have to take advantage because they concede as well."

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Dreary weather down south is it? Not on Teesside... 

Crisp. 

I don't want to call it a six-pointer, but...

A win for Boro could open up a six-point buffer on the bottom three, depending on results elsewhere. 

Victory would not lift Swansea out of the relegation zone (unless they win by four goals that is...)

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Elsewhere from 15:00 GMT, bottom-placed Sunderland are at home to Watford, while Hull play at West Ham.   

Middlesbrough make one change to the side that lost 3-0 at home to Liverpool on Wednesday -  Gaston Ramirez is back from injury and replaces winger Adama Traore. 

Middlesbrough XI: Valdes, Barragan, Chambers, Gibson, Fabio, Forshaw, Clayton, de Roon, Ramirez, Negredo, Fischer. 

Subs: Friend, Espinosa, Leadbitter, Rhodes, Guzan, Downing, Traore.

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Swansea make one change to the team that was beaten 3-1 at West Brom on Wednesday as Mo Barrow comes in for Jefferson Montero on the wing.

Swansea XI: Fabianski, Rangel, Mawson, Amat, Taylor, Fulton, Britton, Barrow, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Llorente.

Subs: Van der Hoorn, Fer, Borja Baston, Nordfeldt, Montero, Naughton.

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Two teams struggling at the wrong end of the Premier League, only one way to safety.

Middlesbrough, 17th in the table, welcome 18th-placed Swansea.

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