Sunderland:3 - Middlesbrough:2
Posted on: April 28th, 2008
Substitute Daryl Murphy ensured Sunderland will play in next season’s Barclays Premier League with a last-gasp winner against Middlesbrough.
The game looked to be heading for a draw - which would not have been the worst result for either side - when Boro’s record signing Afonso Alves fired home a 73rd-minute equaliser.
The Teessiders had got off to the perfect start when Tuncay Sanli gave them a fourth-minute lead, but Danny Higginbotham equalised within two minutes as a compelling contest which neither side could afford to lose ebbed and flowed in front of 45,059 nervous spectators.
Tuncay makes Boro’s day against Derby
Posted on: March 23rd, 2008
Turkish striker Tuncay Sanli made Middlesbrough’s day with the solitary goal in the home side’s defeat of Premier League basement dwellers Derby on Saturday.
The win eased Boro’s relegation fears - they’re now sitting 12th on 34 points, and left Derby rooted at the bottom of the table with just 10 points from their 31 games played.
Boro almost took the lead in the seventh minute through defender David Wheater, whose performances this season earned him a call-up to Fabio Cappello’s England squad earlier this week.
REDSQUARE: Star Quality!
Posted on: January 18th, 2008
ON the day that Tuncay Sanli signed for Boro, 60 per cent of the visitors to the official website were from Turkey.That alone should have given some indication of the kind of player the club were getting. Thousands of Fenerbahce Fans switched allegiance to Boro as they followed their favourite player to his new English club.
After a slow start to life in the Barclays Premier League Tuncay has now started to shine and show why he is the David Beckham of Turkish football.
Tuncay helps Boro thrash Pompey
Posted on: December 29th, 2007
Tuncay Sanli’s goal was good enough to give Middlesbrough a 1-0 win away to Portsmouth as the home side failed to score at Fratton Park for the sixth straight Premier League match.Former Pompey favourite Gary O’Neil returned to haunt his old club by setting up Sanli’s 20th minute winner as Boro moved up the table and away from the relegation zone. Portsmouth pressed for an equaliser and almost got one after the break but Nwankwo Kanu hit the post from five yards out.
