Middlesbrough FC's top 5 craziest ever results ft Man City masterclass | OneFootball

Middlesbrough are no strangers to a shock result or a crazy scoreline, meaning there is plenty to look back on when considering their maddest contests.

Scorelines that look like cricket results, sweeping aside Premier League champions as a second-tier side, anything is possible when the men from the Riverside Stadium line up.

There were plenty of results to pick through, but here FLW picks out five of the best...

Middlesbrough 9-0 Brighton & Hove Albion

23rd August 1958

A result too far back for most to remember, but the sheer attacking power of Boro on this day warrants a mention.

It is the biggest winning margin that the club have ever achieved in a competitive fixture. The fact it came on the opening day of 1958/59 must have left the Middlesbrough fans wondering what to expect for the rest of the season.

Legendary striker Brian Clough managed to notch five of those goals, sending his side hurtling into an early league lead. Sadly, the club were not to walk Division 2 that season as they may have first thought, managing just a 13th-placed finish.

Arsenal 7-0 Middlesbrough

14th January 2006

From the biggest-ever win to one of the heaviest defeats suffered by Middlesbrough in their modern history.

The season started promisingly for the Premier League side under manager Steve McClaren, coming off the back of a remarkable seventh-placed finish the year before.

An early season home win against Arsenal gave the impression things were going from strength to strength, but the Gunners would exact their revenge later in the season at Highbury, hitting seven past Boro goalkeeper Brad Jones, three of which were courtesy of Thierry Henry.

Middlesbrough 8-1 Manchester City

11th May 2008

The deadlock had not yet been broken when City captain Richard Dunne was shown a straight red card in the 15th minute for a trip on Tuncay Sanli.

It was the final day of the season and, despite finishing a middling 13th place in that campaign, it turned into something of a party at the Riverside.

Sanli's strike partner that day, Afonso Alves, would take the plaudits that day, completing his hat-trick in the final minute of the game.

1st March 2022

The most recent and lowest-scoring game on this list, but it makes the cut on account of how unlikely the victory was.

Less than three years prior, the Lilywhites had been in a Champions League final and four of that starting XI travelled to the Riverside Stadium on this day for the fifth-round FA Cup clash.

Despite their pedigree, attackers such as Harry Kane and Heung-min Son could not break down the Boro defence, and that game was dragged into extra-time.

It fell to substitute Josh Coburn, just 19-years-old at the time, to smash home the winner past Hugo Lloris, sending the Riverside rocking and putting his team through to the next round in the most unlikely of circumstances.

Manchester City 0-2 Middlesbrough

24th January 2015

Another cup upset, but this one pips the Spurs win thanks to the fact it was away from home, and this time second-tier Boro were going up against the incumbent Premier League champions.

Patrick Bamford, then on loan from parent club Chelsea, was the key man for Middlesbrough, breaking the deadlock early in the second half, but setting up the second in stoppage time.

With the likes of Sergio Aguero and David Silva turning out for the Blues in this fourth-round clash, nobody expected the Championship side to take the win, but it was yet another historic cup upset for Boro, and one that those in the away end at the Etihad will never forget.