MATCH PACK: Yeovil Town
Middlesbrough v Yeovil Town
Carling Cup second round
Kick-off 8pm
THIS is the first time the two sides have ever met competitively in Boro's 132-year history and Yeovil Town's 112-year existence.
Yeovil beat Championship side Charlton Athletic 1-0 to progress to the second round of this year's Carling Cup.
They drew 1-1 with Leeds United on Saturday, maintaining their unbeaten record to the 2008/09 season and after three games, the Somerset side are sitting comfortably in fourth place in League One.
Russell Slade's side have scored in every game they have played in so far this season.
Opposition Factfile
Slade has been manager of Yeovil for just over two years.
Football League Two champions in 2004/05.
Nicknamed The Glovers, Yeovil only entered the Football League for the first time in 2003/04.
Yeovil's highest transfer outlay is £250,000 for the signing of Argentinian Pablo Bastianini, also known as Paul Bastin, from Quilmes Atletico Club in August 2005.
If selected
Ross Turnbull would be making his 75th career appearance.
Emanuel Pogatetz would make his 20th start in domestic cup competitions.
Injuries and suspensions
Brad Jones is missing after dislocating his finger during the warm-up against Liverpool.
Julio Arca misses the game as he continues to recover from an ankle injury picked up against Hibernian during pre-season.
Aidan Downes, pictured below on the right celebrating at Charlton in round one, will miss the trip to the Riverside after damaging medial knee ligaments.
Danny Schofield suffered severe bruising to his shin against Leeds United on Saturday and will sit out the game.
Darren Way is a doubt for the game after a scare on a fractured cheekbone and despite being only bruised, he has also been suffering with hamstring and back problems.
Asmir Begovic, on loan from Portsmouth, is unavailable to play in domestic cup competitions as part of the agreement.
The Form Book
Since Boro lifted the Carling Cup in 2004, the furthest they have reached is the quarter-final stage.
07/08: Lost to Spurs in third round
06/07: Lost to Notts County in second round
05/06: Lost to Blackburn in quarter-final
04/05: Lost to Liverpool in fourth round
Each time Boro have exited the League Cup since they ended the 128-year wait for silverware, the opposition have won the game to nil.
Yeovil's Carling Cup record...
07/08: Round One - Hereford 4 Yeovil 1
06/07: Round One - Southampton 5 Yeovil 2
05/06: Round Two - Yeovil 1 Millwall 2
Round One - Ipswich Town 0 Yeovil 2
04/05: Round Two - Yeovil 0 Bolton 2
Round One - Yeovil 3 Plymouth 2
03/04: Round One - Luton 4 Yeovil 1
Yeovil's first participation in the League Cup was in season 2003/04 following their promotion from the Conference and into the Football League for the first time in their history.
We all know what happened in the 2003/04 Carling Cup...
The Glovers have won three Carling Cup games out of eight.
Every time they have recorded victory, it has been against higher league opposition.
Points of interest
Yeovil beat Sunderland 2-1 in the fourth round of the FA Cup in 1948/49 - a victory that gave the club "giant-killing" status. Scorer of the first goal in a 2-1 win, Alec Stock, is pictured below carried shoulder high at a celebratory ball.
Sir Ian Botham signed for Yeovil in January 1985, but left in March of the same year, just 12 hours before flying out to tour the West Indies.
Yeovil have taken the lead in their opening three games this season having picked up four points along the way.
Both sides have scored in every competitive game they have played this season.
Mido, who has come off the bench in Boro's opening two Premier League games, had been on the pitch four and ten minutes respectively before scoring against Spurs and then Liverpool.
Opposition by numbers
17 - Points margin at top of Conference, a record when Yeovil won the division in 2002/03
36 - Position in official UK charts for single Yeovil True, released by the team in February 2004
52 - Points accumulated in League One last season
101 - Points total in record haul during the 96/97 campaign in the ICIS League
107 - Years until Yeovil gained entry to the Football League
691 - League appearances made by Len Harris from 1958 to 1972, a club record
743 - Goals scored by club record holder, Johnny Hayward
9,527 - Highest attendance at Yeovil's current Huish Park home
Last time we met
May 20 1997
Friendly
Yeovil Town 2 Middlesbrough 5
Days earlier Boro had appeared at Wembley in the FA Cup final and subsequently they fielded a weakened side.
The game had long been planned before Boro's amazing cup-run in the 96/97 season and was a testimonial for Glovers' manager Graham Roberts.
Paul Connor, a reserve team striker at the time, scored four goals after Chris Freestone opened the scoring for Boro at Huish Park. Yeovil's goals came courtesy of Howard Forinton and guest John Spencer.
Boro: Jackson; Blackmore, Harrison, Vickers, Whelan, Liddle, Robson, Stamp, Freestone, Connor, Moore. Subs: Anderson, Summerbell, Swalwell.
Attendance: 3,092
Referee
Scott Mathieson, from Stockport, Cheshire.
Mr Mathieson is an experienced official from the lower divisions, having never officiated at anything higher than Championship level.
This season he has been in the middle for three games, most recently on Saturday at Bloomfield Road where Blackpool went down 3-1 to Sheffield United.
In those three games Mr Mathieson has only shown four yellow cards in total.
Weather
A relatively warm evening is forecast with a temperature of 15 degrees, although intermittent light rain is also expected.
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