Cup vengeance for Boro?

ByEurosport

Published 23/03/2006 at 08:50 GMT

Stewart Downing believes Middlesbrough can exact revenge on Charlton in Thursday's FA Cup quarter-final to reach the last four. Steve McClaren's side have lost both Premiership games this season against the Addicks, and now Downing says it is time to reve

"They have beaten us twice earlier in the season, so we are looking to get a win against them this time around," the 21-year-old England hopeful. "We are capable, we have got the ability and the players."

Boro were victims of Charlton's rip-roaring start to the season - with a 3-0 home defeat in August - before slipping to a 2-1 loss this month in London.

"The first time we played them, it wasn't a very good performance from us," admitted Downing. "For the game earlier this month, which we lost 2-1, you could say we rested a lot of players.

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"But we thought the lads should still have got something from the game but they've won twice. Hopefully they won't win this one."

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