Mark Warburton’s Brentford dished out some payback at Norwich City on Saturday but the Bees boss already has another revenge mission on his mind.
It’s fourth against second this coming weekend as Middlesbrough come to Griffin Park and will be bouncing following their FA Cup heroics.
Boro put out Premier League champions Manchester City as Chelsea loanee Patrick Bamford and Kike struck to spring an upset at the Eithad.
Those two also found the net earlier in the season as Aitor Karanka’s side put four past the Bees without reply at the Riverside back in September last year.
Both goals came in a second-half horror show and Warburton has revealed he’s been waiting to put that ghost to rest as he prepares to welcome the high-flyers to west London.
Warburton, who he also felt the Canaries were due some retribution, said: “I’m looking forward to Saturday.
“They are a very talented team with a very experienced manager and lots of outstanding individual players.
“We’ve had one bad half of football this season and that was Middlesbrough away in the second half. It’s up to us now to correct that.
“We’re not going to lose sight of the fact that it’s a tough game and we’ve got to impose ourselves and if we do that then hopefully we’ll be in a good place.”
Jota opened the scoring against Norwich on Saturday before Nathan Redmond equalised and Alex Pritchard secured the three points with a second-half penalty.
Warburton added: “I was delighted all over the park, without fault, even the substitutes came on and maintained that.
“Long and Tommy Smith made an impact and Jon Toral did well as well from the bench. It’s a squad game and it’s the squad that’ll get us where we want to go.”
