🗣️ Message was v.different from Hellberg in two separate post-match #Boro interviews. In one, he took responsibility: 'It comes down to me'; in another he bemoaned 'absolutely terrible' attacking quality. Truth is somewhere in the middle. ✍️ Analysis 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259305...

🏟️ Nathan Jones said Charlton 'took confidence' from #Boro's home struggle against Oxford & Leicester 🤔 Also claimed he knew how his side would have to approach Riverside game after watching Boro play 'with a confidence that bordered on arrogance' at QPR www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259292...

😔 #Boro head coach Kim Hellberg as downbeat as I've seen him after that defeat. Couldn't hide 'huge frustration'. 🗣️ 'I think the players in 80% of the pitch did an amazing game. It becomes ridiculous. I feel sorry for the players' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259292...

✍️ You might feel as though you've read this report before www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259291...

In last three home games, #Boro have scored one goal against three teams that have conceded total of 149 this season. Coming opponents will follow lead of Oxford, Leicester & Charlton. Promotion hopes will hinge on whether they can find way to overcome obvious Riverside challenge

✍️ Fry, Ayling, Silvera & Lenihan approaching end of #Boro contracts 🗣️Hellberg happy to leave discussions to club officials but will feed in his thoughts 🤔 Loan decisions also to be made at end of season Full story 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259253...

🤒Eddie Howe outlines what happened with Anthony Gordon yesterday - and why he opted for Will Osula rather than Nick Woltemade or Yoane Wissa up front for #NUFC against Barcelona 🗣️ 'I had to do what was best for the group' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259257...

Last gasp sucker punch harsh on #NUFC, who were brilliant tonight and would have been deserving winners. Hansi Flick was uncomfortable from the off and his reaction at FT was telling. Missed opportunity for Newcastle but hope & belief ahead of second leg. www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259256...

#NUFC good so far and have made life uncomfortable for Barcelona, whose boss Hansi Flick was complaining about home side's physicality inside three minutes. Lamine Yamal fortunate to avoid yellow card that would have ruled him out of second leg. Elanga a threat down NUFC right.

🚨 #Boro injury and team news: 👍 Good news on Fry, who won't be out for long: 'We'll see if he's available this week or if it's next week' 📅 Jones, Silvera & Bangura all expected to be back after March international break - if not before www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259242...

📹🔴⚪️𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊! 👏 Three stars we had to talk about after QPR 🔝 Julien Stephan's brilliant #Boro verdict 🤝 Two summer signings in one 📻 Behind the scenes in Hellberg's BBC Tees sit-down interview ⚽️ Charlton preview www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekP5...

🗣️ Lewis Hall: 💰 #NUFC price-tag pressure ❤️ His dad’s pride ⚽ Facing Lamine Yamal 🆙 ‘That felt like the turning point as a player and a person’ www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259219...

🆙 🗣️ QPR boss Julien Stephan on #Boro: 'I can confirm this is the best team in the league. I thought that before, now I can confirm it. I hope they finish in the top two positions because I think they deserve it with their qualities' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259184...

🔝 Hayden Hackney, widely agreed to be the Championship's best player, and, says #Boro boss Kim Hellberg, he's 'getting better'. 🗣️ 'He has everything and he will end up in the Premier League some day...hopefully with us. Top, top player' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259183...

🤞 Encouraging update on Dael Fry from Kim Hellberg, who says defender's first half withdrawal was 'more of a precaution' 🆙 #Boro's goal difference boosted by six this week & now only three short of Ipswich. Hellberg: 'Of course that could be important' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259183...

✍️ Lennie Lawrence was in stands at Loftus Road. Kim Hellberg might soon add his name to the list of bosses who've managed #Boro in Premier League. Nathan Jones was sat in front of Lawrence. Charlton boss won't be relishing Wed night after watching that... www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259182...

The pressure is supposedly on but #Boro played today with the freedom you'd expect in a kickaround in the park. Brilliant display. So much to like. Seven goals in two games and eight points from 12 since Coventry. What a joy it is to watch Hayden Hackney in a Boro shirt.

Luke Ayling has been immense in this second half. Two crucial blocks in his own box, then used all of his experience to urge #Boro teammates to calm down. Put his foot on the ball on the halfway line to briefly slow & settle things down. His volley off the bar turned in by Browne

#Boro bossing it. Very controlled and comfortable. That second goal would be nice and would surely be enough to win it.

😩 Desperately frustrating for Dael Fry. When he's been fit this season, he's played as well as he ever has for #Boro. Just hasn't been able to get that run he deserves

Opener showed all that is good about the movement of #Boro's fluid forward line. McGree's run and cross, Whittaker picking up that position. Four goals in seven starts for Strelec.

🚨 #Boro team news. 2⃣ changes with Browne & Whittaker in for Malanda and Conway, who both drop to the bench. Back to a back four. 💪Castledine back on the bench in place of Munroe ⚽️ Brynn, Brittain, Ayling, Fry, Targett, Hackney, Morris, Browne, Whittaker, McGree, Strelec

🔎 What #SAFC closely studied before signing Melker Ellborg in January 😃 His 'contagious positivity' behind the scenes 🤝 Sunderland's 'early feeling' on the keeper 👏 Le Bris' training ground conclusion 🧤 'He has really good potential' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259167...

🏟️ When Kim Hellberg arrives at Loftus Road this afternoon, it will bring the memories of childhood flooding back for #Boro's head coach He was in the stands for a game at QPR when he was just 10 years old, as he explains here 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259168...

✍️ Riley McGree interview: 🗣️ His brilliant answer to 'hard question' 👏 The Hellberg 'twists' he loves: 'His influence has been massive' 🆙 'Promotion would mean the world to us' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259135...

🏆 RLB outlines his Granit Xhaka and #SAFC team selection plan for Port Vale 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259150...

🚨 #SAFC injury & team news: 😣 Traore could face 'long' spell out. Sunderland closely assessing & will decide whether surgery is required 🏃 Brobbey back in training but won't be involved at Port Vale 👍 Reinildo, Mukiele, Cirkin should be back for #NUFC www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259149...

🧤 Seny Dieng back at #Boro after his #SWFC loan came to an end. Wednesday's No.1 Pierce Charles is back in training and due to return for tomorrow's game against Derby. Dieng played three games for the Owls. www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259132...

🚨 #Boro injury and team news: 👍 Leo Castledine has trained all week and is in contention to return to squad at QPR. Hellberg will make final call in next couple of days 🤞Promising update on the progress of other injured stars www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259115...

🏆 Confirmation that next season's Championship play-offs will feature six teams rather than four. 🆙 Hopefully #Boro are up by then and it doesn't matter!...but here's how the new format will work 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259102...

#SAFC injury update: 🧤 Robin Roefs out for 2-3 weeks. Will miss Port Vale, Brighton & a doubt for #NUFC 😩 RLB fears Bertrand Traore has suffered recurrence of knee injury 🏥 Jocelin Ta Bi unlikely to play again this season after having surgery www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259051...

👏 Huge #SAFC win. Incredible defensive effort & hugely impressive Melker Ellborg debut. Squad stretched to limit but brilliant response to three straight defeats with four points on the road to take tally to 40 for the season. Travelling fans buoyant🎵 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259051...

⏸️ HT. Entertaining the first half was not. But organised #SAFC have frustrated #LUFC & home supporters. Particularly when Melker Ellborg went down for treatment and Sunderland players rushed over for instructions from RLB. 'What the f**k is going on', chanted the home fans. 0-0.

📹🔴⚪️ 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊! 🙌 #Boro's big Birmingham win unpacked 👏 Kim Hellberg masterclass 🇸🇰 The David Strelec moment 👊 Dael Fry brilliance 🗣️ Hellberg's recent press conferences 📈 Championship promotion picture 🎙️ with @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmtP...

👀 Plenty spotted the fact David Strelec was wearing a different #Boro shirt to his teammates in the second half at Birmingham last night ✍️ @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social explains why 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259023...

🔵 Birmingham boss Chris Davies: 😲 Admits he was surprised and caught out by Hellberg changing shape 👏 Says #Boro have 'gone up a level' since the sides met in early November 🆙 Boro 'have a real chance' of winning promotion ✍️ @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259017...

🔴⚪️ Regis Le Bris on Lutsharel Geertruida: 🗣️ Tough conversations ✍️ Why timing of transfer didn't help ⚽️ The role of the utility man ⏱️ 'He has the 11th most game time in the squad' 👊 'Now it's the right timing for him' | #SAFC www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/259009...

Massive for #Boro. Brilliant response to last week's frustrations and rivals all winning. Puts pressure back on the chasers. Could be big goal and moment for Strelec. 51 points from 51 after scoring first goal is quite remarkable.

🤕 #SAFC injury update: 📅 Romaine Mundle faces around eight weeks out after hamstring surgery 🏥 Surgery 'might be necessary' for Jocelin Ta Bi ❓ 'One or two minor doubts' ahead of #LUFC trip. RLB will do late check before confirming team selection www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258998...

🦁 'Brilliant' Josh Coburn 🐯 Matt Crooks the hero ahead of huge week for #HCAFC 🤔 The team who 'should be top two' 🏟️ 'One of our best home performances' 🗣️ Reaction & round-up from rivals after weekend wins 🔴 Now, it's over to #Boro... www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258988...

Eddie Howe #NUFC reaction after Everton defeat: 🤦‍♂️ 'Hugely frustrated' by PL form, says Newcastle 'self-imploded' 🔁 On Woltemade/Joelinton: 'Doesn't regret' selection but 'didn't like reality' 🗣️ 'I think sometimes too much can be made of those things' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258966...

✍️ Newcastle 2-3 Everton: 📉 #NUFC booed off after fifth defeat in last six Premier League games ❓ The end of the Woltemade experiment? 🗣️ What Dan Burn did after Murphy goal 🧤 Stunned dugout reaction in stoppage time as away fans rub salt into wound www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258965...

⏸️ Howe recognised Woltemade in midfield and Joelinton on left wasn't working and changed it after half hour. Within two minutes #NUFC were level but two minutes later Nick Pope gifted Everton a second goal. Newcastle have been poor. 1-2.

In an ideal world, Kim Hellberg says he'd have tried to manage Adilson Malanda's game-time as defender adapted to life at #Boro He hasn't been able to & it hasn't mattered 🗣️ 'He’s an amazing person & amazing footballer. He will be a top, top defender' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258962...

💻 Kim Hellberg responded to suggestions that #Boro don't shoot enough by studying stats & data and comparing his side with every Championship team over the course of the last six seasons! ‼️The outcome?....'No team has averaged more shots from open play' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258955...

💵 #Boro latest accounts unpacked ✍️ What the figures tell us about transfers 📈 'The club will continue to make as much income as possible available to invest in the football team' 🗣️ Hellberg: 'Steve does everything for Middlesbrough' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258951...

#Boro injury & team news: 👍 Leo Castledine and George Edmundson both back in training 🤔 The four players in a 'tricky' situation 🗣️ 'The closer you get to the finish line, you need to take more risks with them' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258942...

🗞️ Fresh speculation today linking Anthony Gordon with a summer move away from #NUFC. 🗣️Eddie Howe responds 👇 | #AFC www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258927...

📹🔴⚪️ 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊! 😕 Verdict on Oxford and Leicester draws 🤔 #Boro January striker debate revisited ⁉️ The key question that will be answered next week 📈 Promotion picture 🎙️ with @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6B...

📅 Three months ago today, Kim Hellberg was appointed #Boro head coach. 🆙 So far, 32 points out of 48, best defensive record & only two sides have scored more ♥️ 'It feels like home. We're on a unbelievably fun journey and I'm loving every second of it' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/258803...