{"id":574569,"date":"2026-05-09T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574569\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:51:08","slug":"middlesbrough-vs-southampton-live-play-off-team-news-from-the-riverside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574569\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough vs Southampton LIVE: Play-off team news from the Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kim Hellberg sticks with the 3-4-3 then, with one change from the side that started at Wrexham. McGree comes into the side ahead of Browne, who drops to the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Still no Hayden Hackney on the bench, despite his step forward in training this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Interestingly on the bench, it appears Harley Hunt and Cruz Ibeh are prefered to Edmundson and Sene.#<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Starting XI: Brynn, Ayling, Fry, Malanda, Brittain, Morris, McGree, Targett, Whittaker, Conway, Strelec<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subs: Wildsmith, Hunt, Browne, Silvera, Gilbert, Castledine, Hansen, Sarmiento, Ibeh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Hellberg sticks with the 3-4-3 then, with one change from the side that started at Wrexham. McGree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,22145,196451,566,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-middlesbrough-fc","tag-play-offs","tag-southampton-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574569","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=574569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}