DANNY COYNE has been recalled to the Middlesbrough starting line-up after shrugging off a hand injury.
In the absence of Jason Steele, Coyne replaces teenager Connor Ripley in the Boro goal for the trip to the Championship's bottom club Coventry City.
Manager Tony Mowbray has made one further change to the team that lost to Burnley seven days earlier. Barry Robson is brought back in for Richie Smallwood.
Coventry, who do not have to face former player Lukas Jutkiewicz who has been left out by Boro, include former Middlesbrough loan forward Alex Nimely.
COVENTRY CITY (4-1-2-1): Murphy; Christie, Keogh, Cranie, Hreidarsson; Clingan; Deegan, Thomas; McShefferey; Nimely, Platt. Subs: Dunn (gk), Bell, Baker, Eastwood, Wood.
MIDDLESBROUGH (4-3-1-2): Coyne; Hoyte, Bates, Williams, Bennett; Haroun, Thomson, Arca; Robson; Emnes, McDonald. Subs: Ripley (gk), McManus, Martin, McMahon, Smallwood.
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