The goal of any promoted side is simple: avoid relegation and secure a second consecutive season in the top flight, allowing the club to further establish itself at the Premier League level. Collecting a slice of the television revenue doesnt hurt either.With both Middlesbrough and Hull City shooting to achieve that same goal, Monday nights clash between the sides at the Riverside Stadium is massive.Middlesbrough (2-6-5) entered the weekend in 15th place and struggling a bit as they find themselves winless in their last three league matches and 10 of 11. The clubs wins came against Sunderland and Bournemouth, and Mondays clash represents an opportunity to better their own standing while simultaneously pushing a relegation rival further into the abyss.Boros most complete performance of the season came in an Oct. 29 2-0 victory over Bournemouth their first home win of the campaign, but its been a struggle to come up with another complete performance.Last weeks effort against Leicester City held some positives as the club took the early lead after 13 minutes thanks to a goal from Alvaro Negredo, and again seized the lead on 71 minutes through Negredo, but Islam Slimanis stoppage-time penalty forced the clubs to share the spoils.Manager Aitor Karanka was proud of his sides spirited performance.We showed again we are a really good side and how well we can play, against Leicester who won the league last season, he said. We should have won the game and I think we were the better team. But football can be unfair and today we didnt get the three points we deserved.But as they move on from last week and focus on Mondays tilt, midfielder Marten de Roon believes his side has shown marked improvement and its only a matter of time before the results come.Honestly, I think in the last few weeks weve been improving as a team in every single game, the midfielder said. I think we were a bit unlucky against Chelsea with the 1-0 defeat and against Leicester when we shouldve taken three points.But it gives us confidence that were playing better and showing that we can compete with anybody then finally the points will come.The Dutchman also realises the significance of this match.Hull is a big match, he added. Monday is a massive opportunity for us to show the people around us that were above them.Hull City (3-2-8) have a much tougher road ahead as the Tigers find themselves in the relegation zone with just 11 points from their 13 matches. They have just one victory, a 2-1 result over Southampton on Nov. 6, in their last 11 league matches and will need to string a few wins together if they hope to pull themselves out of the drop zone.The win over Southampton saw Michael Dawson and Robert Snodgrass strike in a span of two minutes, but since that match they looked listless in a 3-0 loss to Sunderland, and out of ideas in the final third of last weeks 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion.On the positive side, the club will bring some positive momentum into Mondays clash after knocking off Newcastle United in midweek to secure a spot in the EFL Cup semifinals against Manchester United.Even with the success in the Cup, midfielder Tom Huddlestone realises the focus must now shift to picking up points in the Premier League.We need to be picking up a lot more points in the league, said Huddlestone. Weve been a bit hit and miss recently, so we need to find a consistency and start putting our chances away.We also need to get back to being solid in defence like we were at the start of the season. Hopefully what weve done in the cup will be a boost to us in the league, which is where we need to knuckle down. Its over a month until the first leg of the semi-final, so its about playing well in the league now.Middlesbrough have had a few positive results against big teams recently. We saw their quality in the Championship last season and theyve only added to that since. But well go there and try and stamp our authority on the game.The sides split both meetings in the Championship last season with Boro collecting a 1-0 victory courtesy of a late strike from David Nugent in March. 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Clearance NCAA Jerseys . -- Bobby Ryan helped the U.MONZA, Italy -- Fernando Alonso has predicted McLaren can finish 2016 on the tail of Red Bull due to the type of circuits on the calendar after this weekends Italian Grand Prix.?Alonso recorded an impressive drive to seventh from the back row the grid in Belgium, capitalising on early chaos but also displaying genuine pace later in the race. Afterwards the Spaniard said such a strong result at Spa would have been unthinkable earlier in the season, while Honda said the race confirmed recent progress.Though he is expecting a tough race in Monza, the most power dependent circuit on the calendar, Alonso has high hopes for the subsequent races.?Well, I think it was good progress, Alonso said in reference to the Spa result. Obviously we stayed away from trouble at the first corner and then all the things that happened in the first couple of laps happened in the first couple of laps just happened in front of us. It was part of luck, lets say, that recovery, and part staying calm.We had a clear instruction from the team that we have two sets of medium tyres which most people didnt have, so to take advantage of that strategy we had to run very long the first stint. To run very long first stint is not to break the nose at the start! So we were very calm in the first couple of laps and it payed off with the red flag. But even withouut the red flag I think we were in the points anway.ddddddddddddA good recovery and hopefully we can start a little higher up but this is the most difficult race of the year for us despite recent progress. I think we are still struggling here a lot. After this one, from Singapore onwards, we will enjoy these coming races because I think this car is capable of getting both McLarens into Q3 and in the points from now on.Asked if that was confirmation McLaren was moving forward, Alonso simply said: No, I think the biggest confirmation will come soon.When asked if he meant Singapore, the twisty street circuit which should hide any lingering Honda power deficit and emphasise McLarens belief in its own chassis, Alonso insisted it would be more than one race.Not only Singapore, I think Suzuka, Austin, and especially Abu Dhabi, I think will be very good. Even last year we expected a lot in Singapore and we were OK but we were not as good as Austin and especially Abu Dhabi. For whatever reason Abu Dhabi was really strong for us last year so I think it imagine this year we can really enjoyed it.Alonso was then asked how good he expected to be in those races, he said: Lets try to be just behind Red Bull. ' ' '