McClaren is down seven star names

MIDDLESBROUGH manager Steve McClaren arrived in Ostrava with a squad ravaged by injury which threatens to wreck the club’s European dream.

McClaren is without seven star names, including four of his five summer signings, for tonight’s second leg of the UEFA Cup first-round tie against Banik Ostrava at the Bazaly Stadium.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Joseph-Desire Job (both hamstring), Mark Viduka (back), Ray Parlour (knee), Chris Riggott (thigh), Ugo Ehiogu (calf) and Michael Reiziger (shoulder) were all absent when the squad flew out today.