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Middlesbrough are bidding to end their final Premier League game at the Riverside on a high following relegation to the Championship.

Boro’s 3-0 defeat at Chelsea on Monday night sealed their fate after just one season in the Premier League after a disastrous campaign.

However, caretaker Steve Agnew will be hoping his troops can restore some pride and give the home fans something to shout about following a miserable year.

They take on a Southampton side who will be aiming to cement their spot in the top 10 after a solid season under Claude Puel.

Boro are without injured quartet Daniel Ayala, Gaston Ramirez, Victor Valdes and Adlene Guedioura.

The visitors are boosted by Charlie Austin’s return to the bench after a long spell on the sidelines with a dislocated shoulder.

Long-term absentee Matt Targett is also among the subs.

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The teams are in! Here’s the #SaintsFC line-up for this afternoon’s clash at #Boro: https://t.co/1xEItIVbiU

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#SaintsFC’s @NathanRedmond22 gives his reaction after scoring the decisive goal in the 2-1 win at #Boro:

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Some strong contenders, but who was your #SaintsFC man of the match at #Boro? :thinking:

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We spoke with @JayRodriguez9 after his impressive display in #SaintsFC’s 2-1 win at #Boro:

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Everything you need to know for Middlesbrough vs Southampton

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On paper, this is a fixture between two sides with nothing to play for. Middlesbrough had their relegation back to the Championship confirmed by a rampant Chelsea last Monday, and the visitors themselves cannot finish above 8th in the league. There are, however, some other factors which give each side something to consider.

Frenchman Claude Puel has come in for criticism from parts of Southampton’s fanbase for seemingly failing to take the club forward since Ronald Koeman’s departure. He is at risk of losing his best player, Virgil Van Dijk, in the summer and will not have the pull of European football at his disposal to help to lure new signings.

Steve Agnew, on the other hand, was appointed by the Boro hierarchy after the sacking of Aitor Karanka, and failed to have the desired effect. They have won just one game, a 1-0 victory over also relegated Sunderland, since he took charge, losing 5 of the remaining eight and drawing 3. He will be looking to see how his team respond with the handbrake off and to salvage some pride from a humiliating interim managerial stint.

Middlesbrough vs Southampton kicks off at 3pm on Saturday 13th May.

The match will not be televised live. Highlights will be aired at 10:20pm on BBC2 the same evening.

Nathan Redmond. The winger has shown good form and was called up to the England squad in March. He’ll want to continue in a similar fashion to ensure he remains in Gareth Southgate’s plans. He has six goals in 30 appearances and is a constant threat for Southampton, who will be looking to enjoy themselves against the already relegated home side.

Middlesbrough and Southampton are two of four teams which share the record for the least number of away goals scored in a season, with eight in the 1995/96 and 1998/99 seasons respectively. Completing the list are Sheffield United (2006/07) and Derby County (2007/08).

Ben Gibson. The centre-half is in line for a move to one of the Premier League’s top six this summer, and it is no surprise; his stellar performances throughout the season earned him an England call up and he has been the star in a Boro defence which has conceded far less goals than the teams around them.

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#SaintsFC boss Claude Puel has been reflecting on his team’s 2-1 victory away at #Boro today:

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When we want something, we can do it. But when we can do it we must do it ! :red_circle::white_circle::fist:t3::fist:t3::four_leaf_clover: #SaintsFC

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Vokins and England through to Euro semi-finals

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The Young Lions saw off the Republic of Ireland 1-0 to progress to the final four of the competition and also rubber-stamp their qualification for the 2017 World Cup in India.

Manchester City’s Jadon Sancho scored the match-winning goal after just 13 minutes in Croatia, during which Vokins was an unused substitute.

England now face a semi-final tie with Turkey on Tuesday.

Steve Cooper’s men have now won all ten of their games in the 2016/17 competition, as they continue to hunt out their third European title.

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Watch back the action from St Mary’s earlier today, as #SaintsFCU18s struck late to earn a draw against #SAFC: http://sfcne.ws/SAFCU18Hlights

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Southampton end five-game winless streak against timid Middlesbrough

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This was a peculiar afternoon on Teesside. Middlesbrough bade farewell to the Premier League with a defeat and a performance that for the first hour was borderline funereal, yet that was close to overshadowed by the atmospherics of the occasion.

With Boro fans mocking their team at 2-0 down, then (some of them) calling out the name of departed Aitor Karanka, the manager who has engineered this season of five wins and relegation, Southampton were awarded a penalty for a Brad Guzan lunge at Shane Long.

Guzan must have feared red; he wasn’t even booked. Long stepped up and saw his shot rise into the crowd off the crossbar.

Had the score gone to 0-3, things might have turned ugly. Instead Boro found something and via Patrick Bamford’s first goal for over two years, made the last 25 minutes into a bit of a contest.

A 2-1 home defeat looks rather more respectable and Karanka’s stand-in replacement, Steve Agnew, was able to speak of “commitment and a spirit” while acknowledging the first half was “a test of character” as Middlesbrough offered “no threat”. A five-man midfield with Bamford on the right contributed to that.

Agnew’s boss, Boro chairman Steve Gibson, then made a rare appearance on BBC Tees radio to say of the season: “It’s disappointing, heart-breaking really.

“The season has been very tough. But the fact we have not achieved our objective of staying in the league tells you that we’ve made mistakes.”

Unlike some of the displays Boro have put on, Gibson is going down fighting. Of next season in the Championship, he said: “We’ve got a great opportunity in terms of resource. The club is well run and we are in a good stable financial position. We should have more resource going into next season than any other club. There can be no other objective – we want to smash the league next year. We want to go up next year as champions.”

Whether Agnew will be in charge for that remains unclear.

“I’ve got thoughts but I’ll keep them to myself,” Gibson said of the manager’s position.

Considering they have reached a League Cup final and are now level on points with West Brom – what Middlesbrough would give for that – Southampton manager Claude Puel is under local scrutiny too. Five games without a win, and the three without a goal, had ramped that up.

Here was a reply to that, via an experimental team with two full debutants in the back four Martin Caceres and Anthony Pied. The travelling Southampton fans – over 1300 of them – saw this new XI cruise.

After 42 minutes Jay Rodriguez scored his first since January and 12 minutes after the interval Nathan Redmond struck the second.

At that stage, this was not a good advert for Agnew. The first half was stunning in its dullness. The notion that the ‘shackles’ were off two teams with no more to play for in the season died minute by silent minute.

As Boro’s five-man midfield indulged a favourite past-time, the backward pass, Southampton’s went through the motions of closing down space. Doing these basics meant ensuring that if a Boro player did find some attacking inspiration, it would be snuffed out. The visitors need not have worried.

The half ended with Middlesbrough having failed to record a shot on target or win a corner, never mind score a goal. When Fraser Forster watched an Adam Forshaw drive slide by in first-half injury-time there were ironic cheers from those home fans still interested.

Southampton had gone ahead shortly before. It was a three-touch goal that demonstrated the ability within the visitors, but also the room they were given by a Middlesbrough defence that might not be quite as robust as some claim.

Certainly it was not when Jordy Clasie slid a thirty-yard pass down the Southampton right, exposing the ground behind Boro left-back George Friend.

Long was rushing onto it as Ben Gibson raced across to cover. Long did not even take a touch, he simply struck a crisp, diagonal cross to the penalty-spot where Rodriguez met it first-time – a fine finish.

On the half-time whistle Boro were booed off. Two minutes into the second half, they at last forced a corner. Forster caught it.

A sliced effort from Bamford followed – that came from an Alvaro Negredo knockdown in what is likely to have been his Teesside goodbye.

But then the Saints swept upfield and a clever Rodriguez pass picked out Redmond. Introduced at the interval, Redmond had already shown some purpose. Here he cut in from the left, stepped inside Fabio - who went to the turf needlessly – and bent a curler into the far top corner.

It was all too easy. When Long raced away from the Boro defence and was brought down by Guzan, it was a clear penalty. Long missed.

Two substitutes, Grant Leadbitter and Victor Fischer, at last brought some animation to the home team and it was from a Fischer corner on 73 minutes that Bamford headed in from six yards.

There was a late save for Forster from Chambers, but ultimately Boro’s last home game was like their season – flat and strange.

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