Championship · Match preview
Middlesbrough 2–1 
Lincoln City
- Kick-off
- Status
- Finished
- Venue
- Riverside Stadium
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Match overview
Final score: Middlesbrough 2–1 Lincoln City.
Middlesbrough are 3rd in the Championship table with 22 points from 11 matches; Lincoln City are 18th with 12 points from 11.
Before kick-off the model’s pick was Lincoln City to win at 44% probability; it did not come in.
All figures come from the results archive and the league table in our data; nothing on this page is estimated. How the probabilities are produced
Settled
The model’s pre-match pick and how it went
- Pick
- Lincoln City to win
- Probability
- 44%
- Outcome
- Did not come in
Logged before kick-off, settled automatically against the final score and never edited afterwards. Full Championship record
Goals in recent matches
From the final scores of each club’s last settled matches: goals for and against per game, and how often over 2.5, both teams scoring and a clean sheet occurred.
| Club | P | For | Against | Over 2.5 | BTTS | Clean sheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| Lincoln City | 1 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Championship average this season: 2.9 goals per match.
Championship table: the two clubs
| # | Club | P | W-D-L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Middlesbrough | 11 | 6-4-1 | 22:16 | 22 |
| 18. | Lincoln City | 11 | 3-3-5 | 9:19 | 12 |
Recent form
Last five settled matches before this fixture, newest first.
Middlesbrough
- HEspanyol3–3D
- ACeltic1–1D
Lincoln City
- ADerby County1–2W
Head-to-head
Meetings before this fixture, from the results archive (July 2026 onwards).
No previous meeting between these clubs in our results archive, which starts in July 2026.