Summary

  • FT: Middlesbrough 1-0 Sunderland

  • First-half McGree strike gives Boro victory

  • Middlesbrough up to 14th after second win of season

  • Wilder's Boro remain unbeaten at home in league

  • Sunderland miss chance to move into play-offs

  • Black Cats now won just two of past 26 league visits to Boro

Live Reporting

Matt Newsum

  1. Breaking

    Middlesbrough v Sunderland (20:00 BST)

    Looks like Ross Stewart has limped off in the warm-up... might be a change coming for Sunderland. He's their line-leading centre forward.

  2. No debate - it's a derby, says Wilder

    Middlesbrough v Sunderland (20:00 BST)

    Middlesbrough fansRex Features

    One of the contentious debates around games between Middlesbrough and Sunderland is whether it is actually a derby of not.

    This Tees-Wear encounter, for the river buffs out there, is a rivalry which some embrace fully, while others - notably up the A19 on Wearside, feel there's only one true derby and that's with Newcastle.

    Boro boss Chris Wilder, who being from Sheffield knows a thing or two about derbies, has no qualms about calling this one a derby.

    "There's a little bit more to everything, and there are obvious connections," Wilder told BBC Radio Tees.

    "Regardless of what they say, of course it's a derby. It's one of the closest games to play in, so come eight o'clock on Monday, there are going to be tackles flying in, it's going to be really competitive.

    "We're a competitive team, they're a competitive team, and they've got that bounce of a promotion. I think it's going to be a cracking match."

  3. Teams

    Middlesbrough v Sunderland (20:00 BST)

    Sunderland playersRex Features

    Middlesbrough make one change, with Dael Fry replacing the injured Darragh Lenihan.

    Sunderland are unchanged in the starting XI but new signing Amad Diallo is brought on to the bench.

    Middlesbrough: Roberts, McNair, Fry, Clarke, Jones, Crooks, Howson, Mowatt, Giles, McGree, Rodrigo Muniz.

    Subs: Hoppe, Smith, Dijksteel, Watmore, Forss, Bola, Daniels

    Sunderland: Patterson, O'Nien, Batth, Cirkin, Gooch, Neil, Evans, Clarke, Pritchard, Simms, Stewart.

    Subs: Embleton, Roberts, Bass, Diallo, Wright, Matete, Alese.

    Referee: Darren Bond (Lancashire)

  4. Middlesbrough v Sunderland (20:00 BST)

    Hello then folks.

    Monday night football it is.

    Small matter of two north east rivals getting stuck in together, down by the Tees.

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  5. Middlesbrough v Sunderland (20:00 BST)

    Brian CloughGetty Images

    There's plenty that unites Middlesbrough and Sunderland.

    Both are in the north east, both have an industrial heritage which has forged its landscape and its people. Both love their football.

    There's Brian Clough, There's Julio Arca. There's Grant Leadbitter. There's hating Newcastle.

    Tonight though, there's nothing that unites. It's all about winning. It's Middlesbrough versus Sunderland, in the Championship.

    So whether you're partial to a parmo or prefer a pink slice, let's get things up and running.