{"id":399258,"date":"2026-01-30T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:03:06","slug":"middlesbrough-v-norwich-philippe-clement-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399258\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough v Norwich: Philippe Clement press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Clement delivered a fitness hammer blow when he ruled out key midfielder Pelle Mattsson for &#8216;several&#8217; weeks with the ankle problem that forced him off at half-time against Coventry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Belgian did confirm Mattsson does not require surgery, but indicated City must now weigh up whether to make a late-transfer window move ahead of Monday&#8217;s deadline, with fellow central midfielder Mirko Topic already out for the season with an ACL knee injury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  FAO: ANDROID USERS\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you are consuming today&#8217;s live blog\u00a0on an Android device via the Pink Un\u00a0app, please use two-finger scrolling to navigate through it or\u00a0by\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe\/?id=4034043264768417077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clement suggested he had no other fresh fitness concerns from the squad on duty for the 2-1 win over the Sky Blues on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New signing Paris Maghoma is not in contention for Boro, with the recent arrival from Brentford still overcoming a six-month lay-off with two hamstring-related injuries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clement revealed at his pre-Coventry press briefing Amankwah Forson was due to return to team training this past week after his hamstring lay-off. But the City chief updated the midfielder is now scheduled to be back in team training from next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Shane Duffy (hamstring), Jeffrey Schlupp (hamstring), Topic and Ante Crnac (ACL knee injuries) and Gabe Forsyth (knee) are longer term absentees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lucien Mahovo is expected to miss the majority of the run in with a muscular problem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recap the key lines from our blog and watch Clement&#8217;s full pre-Middlesbrough press call.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clement delivered a fitness hammer blow when he ruled out key midfielder Pelle Mattsson for &#8216;several&#8217; weeks with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}