Middlesbrough boss Tony Pulis will give midfielder Grant Leadbitter until the last minute to prove his fitness ahead of Friday night's Sky Bet Championship clash with Leeds.

Leadbitter tweaked a hamstring as he scored the penalty which gave his side a 2-1 lead in last Saturday's 3-3 draw with his former club Sunderland, and Pulis has revealed he has "an outside chance" of being fit.

Winger Adama Traore will definitely be available following a successful appeal against the red card - his second of the season - he received at the Stadium of Light which would have resulted in a four-game ban. However, striker Rudy Gestede is out for the rest of the season after undergoing surgery an a fractured ankle, while full-back Fabio da Silva is still out with a thigh problem.

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Leeds manager Paul Heckingbottom could have a trio of players available once again for the trip to the Riverside Stadium. Boro old-boy Adam Forshaw missed last Saturday's 1-0 home win over Brentford after his wife went into labour and is expected to return.

Midfielder Pablo Hernandez also missed out as he continued his recovery from a groin injury, and he too could make the squad. Striker Kemar Roofe will hope to resume after sitting out against the Bees because of a knock.

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Middlesbrough haven't won back to back home league matches against Leeds since August 1980.

Leeds have only lost one of their last seven league encounters with Boro (W4 D2), but that defeat was in their last league trip to the Riverside in September 2015.

Middlesbrough have won their last eight home matches on Friday in all competitions.

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Pierre-Michel Lasogga has scored 10 goals and assisted three in 17 starts in the Championship for Leeds United this season.

Tony Pulis hasn't faced Leeds since the 2006/2007 season when his Stoke side won both league matches against the Whites by an aggregate score of 7-1.

Leeds have found the net with six of their 12 shots on target in the Championship under Paul Heckingbottom - they scored with six of their last 29 shots on target under Thomas Christiansen.

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Prutton's prediction

That last-minute equaliser conceded at Sunderland last week would have come as a huge blow to Middlesbrough as they desperately search for some consistency in their play-off push.

Paul Heckingbottom finally got his first win as Leeds boss last week and they'll hope to kick on from there and push back towards where they want to be. This will be a tight game that could go either way, but I fancy Leeds to just sneak it.

David Prutton predicts: 1-2 with Pierre-Michel Lasogga to score first (70/1 with Sky Bet)

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