YNWA takes a look back at previous memorable away League meetings as we make our 67th League trip to Middlesbrough on Saturday, and twelfth to the Riverside Stadium. We have a fairly mixed record on Teesside, having won twenty, drawn 22 and been beaten 24 times.

Xabi's century
Xabi Alonso played his hundredth League game for the reds in January 2008, as we were held to a 1-1 draw. He came on for Yossi Benayoun after an hour when we were a goal down, before Fernando Torres rescued a point with a long-range strike.

Goalless visits
Three of our last five meetings on Teesside have ended goalless, and we failed to score in all of our five trips prior to last season. Steve Finnan helped us claim a clean sheet in his hundredth League outing for the reds in November 2006. We kicked off our League campaign with another goalless draw in August 2005. Ugo Ehiogu was sent off for the home side, the first of fifteen opposition players to be dismissed against the reds that season.

Recent defeats
We lost 2-0 in November 2004, with future red Bolo Zenden nabbing one of the goals, after Chris Riggott had netted the 500th goal against us in the Premier League. Two years earlier, Gareth Southgate pounced after the ball broke free as Jerzy Dudek collided with Sami Hyypiä, to end our twelve-match unbeaten League run. This was the 200th goal we had conceded under Gérard Houllier's sole charge.

Out with the old, in with the new
Our final trip to Ayresome Park came in March 1993 and ended in a 2-1 win, thanks to goals from Don Hutchison and Ian Rush. We lost 2-1 on our first visit to the Riverside Stadium in November 1995, with Neil Ruddock grabbing our consolation and future red Nick Barmby scoring the winner a minute later. We had won on our first trip to Ayresome Park way back in February 1903, with Sam Raybould and Edgar Chadwick on target in a 2-0 victory.

Reds debutants
Kenny Dalglish scored on his League debut in August 1977, as we drew 1-1. David Fairclough made his reds bow in our November 1975 meeting, as Terry McDermott netted the only goal of the game. Alf Arrowsmith debuted in a 2-0 defeat in October 1961, to end a run of twelve games unbeaten since the start of this promotion season.

Left-winger Alan A'Court made his debut in our 3-2 win back in February 1953. Inside-right Sammy Smyth scored his first goal, with Billy Liddell and Phil Taylor also on target.

Trebles
Fabrizio Ravanelli scored a hat-trick for Middlesbrough in a 3-3 draw in August 1996, in the opening game of the season. Stig Inge Bjørnebye struck the first of his four reds goals, with John Barnes and Robbie Fowler also on target. Walter Tinsley grabbed a treble for Boro in April 1914 in a 4-0 victory, and then again the following March as we lost 3-0. Centre-half Walter Wadsworth made his reds debut in the 1915 game. Joe Hewitt scored his first reds hat-trick in our 5-1 win in November 1905, with John Carlin adding a brace. This remains our biggest ever win on Teesside.

Big wins
Peter Beardsley, Ray Houghton, John Aldridge and Steve McMahon all struck in a handsome 4-0 triumph in March 1989. A less happy visit came in August 1929 when we suffered our worst ever defeat on Teesside, being thumped 5-0 in another season opener.

Boxing Day in Boro
We lost our first Boxing Day game since 1986 as Christian Karembeu bagged the only goal of the game in 2000. Two years earlier, Vegard Heggem's wonder goal, his first ever reds strike, rounded off a 3-1 win after Michael Owen's slight touch on a Jamie Carragher shot opened the scoring. Brian Deane equalised before Jamie Redknapp put us back in front after Mark Schwarzer was penalised for picking up a back pass. David James was playing his 200th League game for us.

Other player milestones
Vladimír Šmicer made his hundredth reds appearance as we won 2-1 in March 2002, with Emile Heskey and John Arne Riise on target. Centre-half Tom ‘Tiny' Bradshaw played his hundredth reds League game in September 1932 as we won 1-0 thanks to a Gordon Gunson strike. In April 1924, Joseph Keetley made the last of his nine senior reds appearances as we drew 1-1, with Danny Shone netting our goal.