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Thoughts of returning to the Premier League for the first time since Middlesbrough’s 2016/17 relegation appeared to be dead in the water, yet former England midfielder Michael Carrick has overseen four unbeaten games from his first five as head coach (W3, D1, L1). That run has moved them just four points away from the play-off picture and has fanned the flames of hope once again on Teesside.
The World Cup break may have been useful, as former Boro winger and newly recruited coach Stewart Downing highlighted that Carrick has had a great opportunity to “assess his squad” even further during the break. The team subsequently highlighted their well being with a recent 2-0 friendly win over Hibernian and they’ll now look to continue from where they left off before the break when they claimed a huge 2-1 win at Norwich.
Much like their hosts, it’s all change at Luton Town too, with ex-boss Nathan Jones leaving for a top-flight role at Southampton, which paved the way for Rob Edwards to take his third managerial role in less than a year with the Hatters. These surroundings will be familiar to Edwards as he had applied for the vacant Middlesbrough job and interviewed here in October, albeit unsuccessfully!
Edwards may hope to show Boro what they missed, although he failed to win an away game in his short tenure with Watford earlier in the season (D4, L1). It’s not all bad news for the Hatters, as they’re unbeaten in six of their last eight away league games (W5, D1) with three of those victories seeing Luton overcome their pre-match outsider status, something which they’ll need to do again if they are to extend their three-point lead over Boro in the Championship table.
Key battle: Middlesbrough’s Riley McGree helped Australia to their first World Cup knockout round since 2006 and also scored in Boro’s win over Norwich before the break. He’ll now be looking to beat Luton keeper Ethan Horvath, who occupied the bench in USA’s World Cup campaign but helped Luton to two clean sheets from his



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自米德尔斯堡2016/17赛季降级以来，首次重返英超联赛的想法似乎已经夭折，然而前英格兰中场迈克尔·卡里克在他担任主教练的前五场比赛中(W3, D1, L1)有四场不败。这一波让他们距离附加赛只有4分的距离，并再次在蒂赛德燃起了希望的火焰。
世界杯的间歇期可能是有用的，前米堡边锋和新招募的教练唐宁强调，卡里克有很好的机会在间歇期进一步“评估他的阵容”。球队随后以2-0战胜爱尔兰人的友谊赛突出了他们的良好状态，他们现在希望继续他们在休息前以2-1大胜诺维奇的比赛。
就像他们的东道主一样，卢顿城也发生了变化，前老板内森·琼斯离开去南安普顿担任顶级联赛的角色，这为罗伯·爱德华兹在不到一年的时间里担任帽子人的第三个主教练铺平了道路。爱德华兹对这些环境很熟悉，因为他曾申请米德尔斯堡的空缺职位，并于10月在这里面试，尽管没有成功!
爱德华兹可能希望向米堡展示他们所错过的，尽管他在本赛季早些时候在沃特福德短暂的任期内未能赢得一场客场比赛(D4, L1)。对于“帽客”来说，这也不全是坏消息，他们在最近8场客场比赛中有6场保持不败(W5, D1)，其中3场胜利让卢顿克服了赛前的劣势，如果他们想在积分榜上扩大对米堡的3分领先优势，他们需要再次做到这一点。
关键战役:米德尔斯堡的莱利·麦格力帮助澳大利亚队自2006年以来首次进入世界杯淘汰赛，并在中场休息前帮助米堡队战胜诺维奇。他现在希望击败卢顿门将伊桑·霍瓦特，霍瓦特在美国队的世界杯之旅中占据了替补席，但帮助卢顿队两场零封对手