Boro to wait for Woodgate

Middlesbrough are hoping defender Jonathan Woodgate will be fit for tomorrow’s Premiership clash at West Ham.

The 27-year-old was sent home from the England camp with a knee problem and has been having treatment since.

However, it is in midfield that manager Gareth Southgate has bigger problems with Julio Arca (groin) struggling and Lee Cattermole and James Morrison suspended.

Provisional squad: Schwarzer, Jones, Parnaby, Davies, Xavier, Woodgate, Pogatetz, Huth, Riggott, Taylor, Boateng, Arca, Downing, Euell, Johnson, Rochemback, Viduka, Yakubu, Lee.