Middlesbrough’s Michael Carrick warns of “dangerous” Preston

Middlesbrough Head Coach Michael Carrick has previewed his side’s trip to Preston North End in the Championship. Daniel Wales reports.

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00:00Middlesbrough picked up an important three points against West Brom in midweek, next up they face

00:06Preston at Deepdale with Michael Carrick warning that their opponents will provide a threat.

00:11Yeah they're a good team, they made it really difficult for us at home especially. They've

00:19had some really good results and they're dangerous you know they're dangerous they've got a lot of

00:26players across the front line they make you defend the box at times fast attacks and we've

00:30got to be really ready for that get a lot of crosses in and attack the middle of goal a lot

00:35so we've got to do that you know obviously want to put us on the back foot they've got their

00:40strengths we want we've got our strengths we need to we need to come out on top for sure but yeah

00:45it's um no never an easy game in this league anyway but surely it's a tough one. Whilst a

00:51win for Borough would not see them move up any places in the championship it would certainly

00:56cement their place in the playoffs.