Digard misses cup clash

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate will be without midfielder Didier Digard for tomorrow night’s FA Cup fifth round replay with West Ham.

The Frenchman could be sidelined for 12 weeks after suffering a partial tear of the medial ligaments in his right knee and a partial rupture of the quadraceps muscle in his left leg following a challenge by Wigan’s Boro old boy Lee Cattermole at the weekend.

Striker Marlon King is cup-tied having played in the competition for Hull but full-back Andrew Taylor could return from an ankle problem.

Provisional squad: Jones, Turnbull, McMahon, Hoyte, Huth, Pogatetz, Wheater, Bennett, Riggott, Taylor, Walker, O’Neil, Bates, Shawky, Tuncay, Downing, Arca, A Johnson, Alves, Emnes, Aliadiere.