Middlesbrough vs Millwall Predictions

• Middlesbrough can go top of the Championship with a win
• Millwall have lost three of their last four league games
• Will Lankshear has seven goals in all competitions for Boro

Teessiders can take the points

Kim Hellberg is making a very pleasing start to his first full season in English football and his Middlesbrough side will ascend to the Championship summit if they beat Millwall at the Riverside.

Boro displayed their character in Saturday’s 4-3 win over Norwich, coming from behind early on and then finding a late winner after the Canaries had levelled things up.

Both teams have scored in five of Middlesbrough’s six league games, while the last five Championship games involving Alex Neil’s Millwall side have averaged four goals per game.

The hosts can claim top spot in the Championship but they may need multiple goals to get it done.

Lankshear unlikely to blank again

The most surprising thing in Middlesbrough’s success on Saturday was that they scored four times and big-money summer signing Will Lankshear was not amongst the goalscorers.

He went into that contest with five goals in five Championship games previously amongst a tally of seven strikes so far this season.

He has scored five times in five home appearances for the Teessiders and can get back on the scoring trail against a porous Millwall defence that has leaked 11 goals in four Championship games recently.