Middlesbrough are unbeaten across their last three home league games against Preston North End (W2 D1), netting nine goals in those matches. Since the start of 2022-23, it’s the most goals they’ve netted on home soil against any side in the Championship.
Preston North End are unbeaten across their last four league games against Middlesbrough (W2 D2), while they last enjoyed a longer unbeaten run in this fixture between December 1951 and December 1953 (five games).
Following a 4-0 win against Southampton earlier this month, Middlesbrough are looking to record a clean sheet in consecutive home league games for the first time since their first two at the Riverside this season.
Preston have lost their last two league games, though both have come at home. They last lost more consecutively in April last season (4).
Morgan Whittaker has scored six goals in 12 home league appearances for Middlesbrough this season; at least three times as many as any of his teammates at the Riverside (2 for David Strelec, Hayden Hackney, Tommy Conway and Dael Fry).

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