Brighton & Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet has made two changes to his side that drew 1-1 with Leicester City last weekend for today's match against Middlesbrough.

Andrew Crofts and Casper Ankergren have been drafted back into the Seagulls' starting lineup, with the former replacing the injured Will Buckley and the latter coming in place of Tomasz Kuszczak between the sticks.

Winger Vicente is on the bench for Brighton, while Kazenga LuaLua is out of the squad with a hamstring injury.

Middlesbrough: Steele, Hoyte, Halliday, Woodgate, Williams, Haroun, Smallwood, Leadbitter, Main, McDonald, Zemmama
Subs: Leutwiler, Bikey, Ameobi, McEachran, Carayol, Miller, Bailey

Brighton: Ankergren; Calderon, Greer, Upson, Bridge; Bridcutt, Hammond, Crofts; David, Ulloa, Orland
Subs: Brezovan, El-Abd, Painter, Dicker, Forster-Caskey, Vicente, Barker