It’s a very complicated start, but I’m ahead. It will be a smart indicator of the scenario where we are in front of two groups that have just left the Premier League.
However, it’s like I say, there are no simple games in the league. Whether you play in Watford or Wycombe, you know you’re going to have a tough game. That’s the way this league goes.
Better late than ever.
More than two months after the date of the classic mid-June game, Boro enthusiasts will know when they will face their 23 championship rivals at home and away today.
There are some dates when enthusiasts turn first.
Who plays Boro on opening day, faces the Christmas period, especially on Boxing Day, and faces local rivals.
Unfortunately, the absence of Sunderland, Newcastle and Leeds from the Championship that Boro has nothing to do with a derby.
But they may be expecting a first league clash with the newly promoted Wycombe Wanderers. And then the return of George Friend Riverside with Aitor Karanka’s Birmingham.
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All this until the next
A.F.C. Bournemouth v Blackburn Rovers
Barnsley v Luton Town
Birmingham City v Brentford
Bristol City v Coventry City
Cardiff City v Sheffield on Wednesday
Derby County vs. Derby County Reading
Huddersfield Town v Norwich City
Millwall v Stoke City
Preston North End v Swansea City
Queens Park Rangers v Nottingham Forest
Watford v Middlesbrough
Wycombe Wanderers v Rotherham United
For those interested, Birmingham showed the composition of Aitor Karanka’s behind-the-scenes team.
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Along with Aitor in Blues are David Karanka (assistant), Juanjo Vila (head of analysis), Nelson Jardim (assistant) and Carlos Luengo Pena (deputy director of analysis).
Craig Gardner also helped Karanka as first-team coach after joining the lineup in July, at the end of his gaming contract.
Scott Bevan takes over as goalkeon coach, under-23.
Elliott Woolmer continues the status quo of Karanka’s first team, as a sports scientist. He was the fitness coach of the Blues’ first team from the summer of 2018 to the end of 2019.
David Karanka, 42, who also played professionally as his older brother, first-team coach and analyst at Nottingham Forest.
The former centre scorer spent most of his 16-year career as a professional player with the Spanish La Liga and La Liga 2 groups after breaking up at Athletic Bilbao, as did Aitor.
After hanging up the tacos in 2013, after scoring 142 goals in 428 professional appearances, he began his training career in his home country with Real Murcia.
He spent four years progressing at his Academy as an assistant coach before joining his brother at City Ground, Nottingham.
Vila is well known in Karanka for having worked with him in the past as assistant coach and head of research and exploration at Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest.
He has a lot of high-level delights in his career.
Before moving to England, the 58-year-old leading analyst at Deportivo La Coruña and Valencia, before signing assistant to Spartak Moscow coach, Mallorca, and then another Russian club, Torpedo Armavir. He was also a time candidate for the Spanish Football Association.
Jardim, 41, is a Portuguese national who has coached in titles in his home country and in the United Kingdom: Academia, semi-professional and professional in the Premier League and championship.
He is assistant and analyst of Paulo Sousa in Swansea City and Leicester City.
He joined Swans as Academy Coach in 2014 and then coached the first leg of the team, running with Francesco Guidolin, Bob Bradley, Paul Clement, Carlos Carvalhal and Graham Potter.
While playing football at lower levels, he began reading at the University of Porto with a five-year degree, majoring in football training and adding sports sciences and physical education/preparation and match analysis. This laid the foundations for his career, having accepted an offer to sign for Sousa after the past with Nacional, Mariatimo and Leixoes.
Peña worked at CF Trujillo, from the fourth Spanish level, combining the role of assistant and research leader in 2019/20, having been its academy and method director and head coach of the under-18s between 2009/15.
Between 2015/17, Pena coach-in-chief of FC Banants, an Armenian Premier League team, as well as its academy and functionality director.
Pena, 40, has a variety of skills and delights in football training, research and management.
The 2020/21 matches for the 3 divisions of Sky Bet EFL have been confirmed, as 72 EFL clubs are back in the match for the thrilling EFL football season.
The league festival at the Sky Bet EFL will begin on the weekend of September 12 with a full schedule of EFL matches at the Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two.
In the championship, Watford’s return to the department welcomed Neil Warnock’s Middlesbrough on the opening day at Vicarage Road, while League 1 winners Coventry City traveled to Bristol City and AFC Bournemouth hosted Blackburn Rovers at Vitality Stadium.
Portsmouth and Sunderland host the first day of Ligue 1, against Shrewsbury Town and Bristol Rovers respectively, while Hull City begins their season with a Priestfield Stadium to face Gillingham.
From his first season at EFL, the Winner of the National League Play-Off, Harrogate Town, will travel to the coast to face Southend United and Barrow AFC, back in the Football League after 48 years, will host Stevenage on Holker Street.
The initial broadcast of the 2020/21 Sky Bet EFL season will be shown next week.
Grant Hall talked about Boro’s 2020/21 on the club’s website.
He said:
It’s a very complicated start, but I’m ahead. It will be a smart indicator of the scenario where we are in front of two groups that have just left the Premier League.
However, it’s like I say, there are no simple games in the league. Whether you play in Watford or Wycombe, you know you’re going to have a tough game. That’s the way this league goes.
Boro faces an incredibly hectic era from January to early March.
Warnock men will play 8 games in just 32 days, with Norwich City on Carrow Road on 30 January.
Six games in February come with trips to Derby and Reading before Boro returns to the West Midlands for an away game off coventry City at his transitional home in St Andrew’s, Birmingham, on Tuesday, March 2.
January
30 Norwich City (a) 3:00 p.m.
February
6 Brentford (h) 15:00 h
13 Derby County (a) 3 p.m.
16 Huddersfield Town (h) 7.45pm
20 Play (a) 3pm
23 Bristol City (h) 7.45pm
27 Cardiff City (h) 15:00 h
March
2 City of Coventry (a) 19.45 h
On the last Saturday before Christmas, for many festive start enthusiasts, see Boro at St Andrew’s, where the Birmingham city of Aitor Karanka awaits.
All is well, George Friend will face his former club for the first time since joining Blues Week.
Boro then went home to Rotherham on Saturday 26 December, then travelled to Hillsborough to play in Sheffield on Wednesday 29 December.
They don’t fit on New Year’s Day, which falls on Friday, but Boro is absent in Wycombe on Saturday, January 2.
December
19 Birmingham City (a) 3 p.m.
26 Rotherham United (h) 15:00 h
29 Sheffield Wednesday (a) 7.45pm
January
2 Wycombe Wanderers (a) 3 p.m.
Let’s take a look at the Boro in September and October.
On paper, it’s a potentially complicated start.
Boro with an away game at Relegated Watford on 12 September and a week later they will receive another relegated team, Bournemouth.
Just 14 days after his trip to Vicarage Road, Neil Warnock’s Middlesbrough visited his former QPR club in the capital.
If Boro succeeds in the Carabao Cup, he will face a brutal September in terms of rapid switching between matches.
October starts with home games at either on a foreign break, but Boro faces Bristol City at Ashton Gate on Tuesday, September 20 and Cardiff in South Wales 4 days later.
September
12 Watford (a) 3 p.m.
19 Bournemouth (h) 15:00 h
26 Queens Park Rangers (a) 3 p.m.
October
3 Barnsley (h) 15:00 h
17 Game (h) 3pm
20 Bristol City (a) 7.45pm
24 Cardiff City (a) 3pm
27 City of Coventry (h) 19.45 h
31 Nottingham Forest (h) 15:00 h
September
12 Watford (a) 3 p.m.
19 Bournemouth (h) 15:00 h
26 Queens Park Rangers (a) 3 p.m.
October
3 Barnsley (h) 15:00 h
17 Game (h) 3pm
20 Bristol City (a) 7.45pm
24 Cardiff City (a) 3pm
27 City of Coventry (h) 19.45 h
31 Nottingham Forest (h) 15:00 h
November
3 Blackburn Rovers (a) 19.45 hours
7 Brentford (a) 3 p.m.
21 Norwich City (h) 15:00 h
25 Derby County (h) 19.45
28 Huddersfield Town (a) 3 p.m.
December
2 City of Swansea (h) 7.45pm
5 Stoke City (a) 3 p.m.
9 Preston North End (a) 7.45 p.m.
12 Millwall (h) 3pm
16 Luton Town (h) 7:45 p.m.
19 Birmingham City (a) 3 p.m.
26 Rotherham United (h) 15:00 h
29 Sheffield Wednesday (a) 7.45pm
January
2 Wycombe Wanderers (a) 3 p.m.
16 Birmingham City (h) 3pm
20 Nottingham Forest (a) 19.45 h
23 Blackburn Rovers (h) 15:00 h
30 Norwich City (a) 3:00 p.m.
February
6 Brentford (h) 15:00 h
13 Derby County (a) 3 p.m.
16 Huddersfield Town (h) 7.45pm
20 Play (a) 3pm
23 Bristol City (h) 7.45pm
27 Cardiff City (h) 15:00 h
March
2 City of Coventry (a) 19.45 h
6 Swansea City (a) 3 p.m.
13 Stoke City (h) 15:00 h
16 Preston North End (h) 7.45pm
20 Millwall (a) 3 p.m.
April
2 Bournemouth (a) 3 p.m.
5 Watford (hours) 3:00 p.m.
10 Barnsley (a) 3 p.m.
17 Queens Park Rangers (h) 3pm
21 Rotherham United (a) 7.45pm
24 Sheffield Wednesday (h) 3pm
May
1 Luton Town (a) 3 p.m.
8 Wycombe Wanderers (h) 15:00 h
Boro has never played Wycombe Wanderers in the league, so far!
The date was soon revealed. It is to be hoped that enthusiasts will be allowed to travel.
Make your cups of tea and a newspaper of course,
The time for the 2020/21 meetings will soon come.
There will be some war parties that Boro enthusiasts will see, if spectators can enter the camp.
Wycombe Wanderers will be popular with fans, especially those who have never been to Adams Park.
And two visits to St Andrew’s await you with Birmingham and Coventry, whether in gambling; it may not be a position that Boro enthusiasts feel more on their list, even though George Friend will play for the Blues.
Anyway, it’ll all be at 9:00.
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