Middlesbrough vs Stoke preview: What time does it start, where can I watch it live?

A look ahead to the Premier League fixture at Riverside Stadium

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Karanka has guided Middlesbrough into the top-flight (Getty)

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It’s a big game for…

Jack Butland: Although still at a tender age in a goalkeeper’s career, he will certainly be a contender for England’s number 1 shirt in upcoming internationals, good news for anybody who is just about done with looking at Joe Hart’s cringing public schoolboy face as he makes yet another blunder.

A thoroughly modern goalie who rarely loses his concentration and has the judgement to come off his line when needed, he is everything that Hart is not.

Best stat…

Middlesbrough have won only four out of their last fifteen matches against Stoke.

Player to watch…

Viktor Fischer: At 22, this versatile attacker has already been racking up caps for the Danish national team. A product of Ajax’s youth academy who has been compared to Dennis Bergkamp and is of the sort of pedigree that Middlesbrough can build a strong Premier League side around.

Past three-meetings…

Stoke 1 (Shawcross) Middlesbrough 0, Premier League, March 2009

Middlesbrough 2 (Alves, Sanli) Stoke 1 (Hoyte OG), Premier League, August 2008

Stoke 1 Middlesbrough 2, League 1, February 1998

Form guide…

MIddlesbrough: DDDDWW

Stoke: WLDLLL

Vital information…

Kick-off time: 3.00pm, Saturday 13 August

TV: Highlights on BBC1

Odds…

Middlesbrough to win: 7/5

Stoke to win: 12/5

Draw: 11/5

(Odds provided by BetVictor)

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