Watford v Middlesbrough: It's a crazy old division – Strachan

Championship: Middlesbrough sit six points behind sixth-placed Cardiff but they got their faltering challenge back on course by beating Preston North End in midweek.

They now head to struggling Watford with Gordon Strachan still trying to figure out the "craziness" of life in the Championship.

"It's a wee bit brighter than it was last weekend because we have caught a couple of teams up with the points we collected on Tuesday night," he said.

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"But the performances, as far as I am concerned, were far better when we only picked up draws, and that's the craziness about this football league.

"I look at teams in the league and it is not cosmic, it is not like you go away and there are people playing between lines and nicking in here and one stepping in there."

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