Middlesbrough vs Burnley Betting Tips

Boro have won their last 4 games and haven’t conceded a goal in any of their last 8 league games in a run spanning over 700 minutes of football. They top the Championship after beating 2nd placed Derby in their last game and now lead the Rams by 4 points with a game in hand.

In short they are very well placed to secure promotion to the Premier League this season and have looked the class act in the division. While promotion will be their priority, they have enough quality and depth in their squad to go quite far in this competition too and proved in the Capital One Cup, where they reached the Quarter Finals that they are willing to take the domestic cups seriously.

Burnley meanwhile are in a real scrap for the play-off places and are currently 3 points above 7th placed Sheffield Wednesday. They don’t possess as big a squad and have struggled on the road of late given they are winless in 5 away from Turf Moor and were beaten 1-0 at Middlesbrough only last month.

Therefore everything points to a home win here and Middlesbrough are good value at 10/11 to secure it.

It might be more comfortable than the league scoreline too given Boro have some talented forward players who aren’t regulars and will be keen to impress if given the chance. Burnley were beaten 3-0 at Hull in their last away match and a repeat scoreline here can be backed at tempting odds of 16/1.