No fresh problems for McClaren

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren has no new injury worries ahead of tomorrow’s Barclays Premiership trip to Liverpool.

Austrian international Emanuel Pogatetz has shaken off a minor knock and is available, but Stuart Parnaby is still sidelined by the muscle injury which kept him out at Chelsea last weekend and Gaizka Mendieta is yet to recover from his calf strain.

Meanwhile, Stewart Downing and Ray Parlour (both knee) are making good progress, but are still some way away from returns.

Provisional squad: Schwarzer, Jones, Bates, Riggott, Southgate, Ehiogu, Queudrue, Pogatetz, Boateng, Doriva, Rochemback, Morrison, Nemeth, Johnson, Kennedy, Yakubu, Hasselbaink, Viduka, Maccarone.